<p>thank you for your insight, Milotic17 & embord ! i checked out Dickinson’s floor plan on MHC’s website; looks like i share a 13 x 14’ balcony-less room with another lady. : ’ ( </p>
<p>oh well. on the bright side, i found the Singles Lottery:</p>
<p>"A lottery is held at the beginning of each semester to allocate any available single rooms. Seniors, juniors, and sophomores in doubles or triples are eligible to participate. Seniors have priority, then juniors, then sophomores.</p>
<p>Any single rooms available at the time will be distributed on the designated day, in final ranking order. Once all singles are exhausted, the list will be maintained until four weeks before the end of classes, and students will be contacted in their rank order if any additional singles become available."</p>
<p>my understanding is that seniors automatically get placed in singles. so any juniors who enter this are pretty much in the front of the line. not sure why there would be free singles, though. has anyone found a single this way?</p>