<p>Have a roommate. The majority of people have a positive or at least neutral experience with theirs, and it really helps them learn how to share space and compromise if they previously hadn't had to. (Though skills are absolutely necessary in real life.)</p>
<p>You don't want to isolate yourself your first year of college. Just try it out! College confidential really isn't a good place to ask this question because, frankly, a lot of people here seem to have difficulties in social situations (judging by some of the posts I've seen in this section.)</p>
<p>just give it a try! my roommate and I picked eachother first semester, and it wound up not working out too well. we probably said about 50 words a day, unless one of us was complaining about a professor or class. we hung out a lot in the beginning but then she shut down or osmething and it became about 10 words a day.. </p>
<p>when she transferred and i was alone the first week of 2nd semester it was just WEIRD being alone. my current roommate moved out of a forced triple and we get along amazingly. we dont really hang out outside of the room and we have different friends but i consider her one of my good friends and im so happy we got put together.</p>
<p>honestly most of you have never shared a room with anyone before and even if you did it was most likely a sibling. it is a great learning experience and if you hate it that much after freshman year then get a single! or move into an apartment. odds are there will be times when you will be alone in your room anyway to give time to "recharge".</p>
<p>I'm an introvert, and I want a double next year (I'm a senior now), but I do have some concerns. I know my roommate would have classes to go to, other people to hang out with, etc., but other than that, how do I get alone time? I wouldn't try to make the roommate go somewhere else or anything like that, but what could/should I do if my roommate is in the room, but I want to be alone (besides me going someplace else)? Also, what can/should I do if my roommate turns out to be the puking/stealing/that sort of thing type? I assume I could talk to an RA about it if it got bad enough, but would it be possible for me/the other person to be moved to another room?</p>
<p>I like your way of thinking. I couldn't imagine my college experience without a roomate, be them good or bad, although i'm pretty sure my roomate is going to become an amazing friend.</p>
<p>I want to do coed, because it gives you the oppurtunity to hang out with guys and girls equally. I'm kind of tomboyish and kick booty at video games. Guys are more competitive, and fun to flirt with. haha.</p>
<p>Girls get catty. NUFF SAID! It gives you an equal balance.</p>
<p>I also like how my schools bathrooms are setup. :) They have a curtained changing area infront of the curtained shower area, so it's not like everyones going to see me nekkid.</p>
<p>The best time in college I've had was when I had a double that turned into a single after my roommate moved out(we had a suite and he couldn't handle the other 4 freshman roommates partying; I was a junior and he a soph). Lots of room and privacy.</p>
<p>Besides that, some of the stories I've had with roommates was having the first be the dorm annoying person(everyone complained about him) who I decided to move out on when he started going through my drawers because he was wondering what I had there, the next one I won't even mention what he did because its embarassing, the one after that sang/music all the time and his hair was everywhere, the one after that moved out(above) but the police checked our room for a weapons cache of his, and the last one I had was annoying whenever he talked over the phone mostly(in his native tongue) because he sounded like a donkey when he laughed and he was always laughing.</p>
<p>To be on the bright side, I was always hoping that my roommate and I could become friends(which was why I always signed up for having roommates) but it always turned out I was annoyed by them. That's why I don't want to have friends to be roommates, I think I'd end up hating them and ending the friendship. Now that I'm going to Grad school, I'm wondering if having a single is a good idea or not.</p>
<p>I lived in a nice, spacious triple last summer at Governor’s School, although we never hung out with each other. I’ll be attending Haverford College next semester, and I hear that most of the dorms are singles. I’ll try to go the way of the single just for privacy though; I can find friends on my own. :)</p>
<p>I think that I want a double (or even a triple) because it just gives you someone to hang with or talk to which is kinda hard for me and I’d love to come out of my shell. I think with doubles, you are more likely to have others over too and if it gets too loud, you can always go to the library or something.</p>
<p>My cousin had the strangest roommate ever. He used to like to smell my cousins socks so my cousin would wear the same socks for a whole week and his roommate would always do his laundry of whatever he wanted. Apparently, he also liked being kicked in the family jewels and sleeping in cages. Weird I know. My cousin was pretty cool with that though and thought it was funny.</p>
<p>i’m living in a single room in a 4 person suite next year, which seems to be the best of both worlds. i’ll have suitemates to chill with, but when i want to bring a girl back to my room we’ll have some privacy. also, i won’t have to deal with communal bathrooms.</p>