@stechin I eat at Hinman all the time. They have better pizza, Starbucks, and Subway. I’ve also walked to the Dickinson-Newing dining hall at midnight just to get a milkshake, so yeah it’s pretty common.
The housing is on a separate portal, and I believe the form opened up on April 8th at 10am this year. This is only the form where you fill out the roommate questions, and it gives you the chance to choose a roommate. Depending on when you filled out this form, you get a time slot sometime in May (I believe I had May 23rd) where you can actually choose your room. It’s really uncommon for a freshman to get a single, so don’t expect to get one unless you’re really lucky. You can choose the building and the exact room that you want to stay in. It will also indicate which room is a single, double, or triple.