Honestly, if you go into a single with the idea that it's awful and you'll never make any friends and you'll have a miserable first year experience, it'll happen that way. If you go in with an open mind and say, well awesome I don't have to worry about having an obnoxious roommate, I can decorate it the way I want to make it cozy and homey, and I am forced to get out and join clubs and hang out with a variety of people on my hall to make friends, then odds are you'll love it. Just take it as being given an opportunity rather than a jail sentence. Trust someone who had a future alcoholic for a roomie (who did open the windows in the dead of winter when I was the one sleeping by the window and who was a slob) that having a first year roommate isn't all it's cracked up to be. There's just way too much to do and to get involved in around grounds to worry about who you'll be sleeping with. And remember, your child won't be the only one in a single. All the other first years in singles will want to make friends and have fun just as much as yours
