<p>My fiance and I are going to the University of South Florida (Tampa Campus) this fall, and we were wondering if there were any special circumstances that would allow us to live in the same dorm room on campus. I know that there are co-ed floors, but I wouldn't want to make my roommate feel awkward if him and I were sleeping in the same bed every night... Do you think that USF would allow us to have a room to ourselves? And if so, are there special rooms or anything like that?</p>
<p>Most schools don’t make exceptions for this sort of thing, but you may be able to get an on-campus apartment together. Worth looking into-- check with housing. Otherwise I suggest you get a single or live off campus. If you are mature enough to be engaged, you are mature enough to know it’s inappropriate to ask a roommate to tolerate your fiance spending the night every night-- that option shouldn’t even be in discussion.</p>
<p>Exception for an engagement? Not a chance. </p>
<p>Does USF require freshmen to live on campus? If not, look at off-campus housing.</p>
<p>Fwiw, as someone who was engaged freshmen year, you really should think about dorming like you would if you weren’t engaged. You really need to work on building independent lives while at college.</p>
<p>I highly doubt they would make a expectation. It would be one of those “If we did it for 1 we would haft to do it for all” type situations. At USF there is only 1 all girls dorm. Only 2 (I believe) are separated by floor gender, and the rest are separated by rooms (these dorms have full bathrooms within the rooms)</p>
<p>Freshmen are now required to live on campus the first year, the alternate solution is if they choose to live with a relative within the bay area (tampa,st.pete,clearwater,dunedin, etc) being named as a ‘fiance’ might be able to allow that.</p>
<p>I do know that USF has a good housing options to those with families, or married. Explore these perhaps?</p>
<p>USF requires freshman to live on-campus, with some exceptions, and engagement is not one of them. It’s actually illegal here to share a room when you’re not married yet.</p>
<p>It really sucks, but apartments around here don’t really pay attention to the law, if you can qualify to live off-campus (as I know from personal experience of living off-campus with my fiance senior year). But I imagine the university can’t ignore it. On-campus housing at USF is typically twice the price of off-campus housing in the area, which is probably why they feel the need to force freshman to live on campus. Sigh…</p>
<p>There is housing for families and those who are married, but if you’re engaged this law means you’re out of luck and have to pay twice as much just to live. :/</p>
<p>Only one other idea…some schools (Boston University is one of them) are trying to get started with “Gender Neutral” housing. Perhaps your schools have this as well - if so, perhaps you could “legally” share a double?</p>
<p>I go to USF and was in the same situation myself and had to ask… so I’m pretty sure my answer is accurate, thanks. There is no possible way to share a room with your fiance on campus at USF because it is not legally allowed in Florida. Off-campus apartments will look the other way, but a public university cannot.</p>