<p>hey! ok here is my question. im planning to go to hampshire… should i get a private dorm or a roomate? I know the privacy is great but will it be harder to make friends( w/ no roomate)? im only going to a mod ( its like a “house” w/ 4-10 other students) in sophmore year…</p>
<p>it depends on how social the dorm in general is…i have a roommate, but i have a really close friend who lives in a single and she’s no less social than my roomie and i are b/c our dorm and hall are so social…but i don’t go to hampshire, and i live in my college’s most social dorm, so…</p>
<p>hope that helps :p</p>
<p>It is a tradeoff and you will need to decide. If privacy is more important to you and you don’t mind a worse social life (in many cases, but definitely not all), a single is better for you. If you really want an active social life and are nervous about making friends, you might prefer a double/triple.</p>
<p>Get a private.</p>
<p>Private if you can get it. Very few roomates remain on good terms after the entire year of living together.</p>
<p>If you want a social life in the dorms, when you move in - just leave your door wide open when you’re in there. People will stop by and look in, and that’s how you can meet other people in your building while living alone. If you live alone and live like a hermit with the door closed then you will have a crummy social life until you make friends in your classes</p>
<p>oh PRIVATE. You may think you and your roommate are going to get along GREAT, and you may be a perfect match at first, but a) people change with college and b) people translate differently when you meet them in person. Speaking from experience, what may seem to be roommate utopia generally never is.</p>
<p>Definitely do it, but keep your door wide open and if there’a group of people congregating in the hall go introduce yourself and hang out. Singles are FANTASTIC.</p>
<p>I had a triple and I loved it.</p>
<p>I disagree with Pearlinthemist saying very few roommate remain on good terms. Most people I know are in fact on good terms with their roommates.</p>
<p>One of the 2 guys I still live with and the other is still a good friend.</p>
<p>You also meet a much larger group of people with roommates - I had one roommate who was a hockey player, and he introduced me to a huge group of people who I would otherwise not know.</p>
<p>one semester in and my roommate and I are still on good terms. We are greatfriends in the room, but not really friends outside the room (so we don’t get sick of eachother). I would deffinetly reccomend getting a roommate, that way (as long as you get along) even if you make no friends, you will still have someone to talk to at night.</p>
<p>I totally recommend a roommate. I don’t know about Hampshire, (though I have a friend there and she loves it!) but here the single kids seem to just sleep throgh class and never do their work…there’s not the roommie there to remind them (not nag so much as lead by example)…I know I wouldn’t have made it to class nearly as often if my roommie wasn’t going to an 8:30 as well…also…you always have someone to go to dinner with if nothing else (even if you’re not best buds). I would say my roommate and I aren’t best friends, but we get along alright and are friendly to each other.</p>
<p>PRIVATE</p>
<p>i have a roomie right now, and get along great with her. most of our mutual friends are from the dorm, though, so being roomates didn’t necessarily help in that aspect. we both have friends outside the dorm too, mostly due to clubs and classes. but we’re def on good terms.</p>
<p>knowing now how easy it is to make friends, single or not, in college, i’d pick a private. i’m a freshman, and didn’t have a choice to have a private, and i probably would have still picked a roomie at the beginning of the year b/c of the “social” dilemma. but knowing what i know now, i’d pick a single.</p>
<p>having a roomie, for me and many i know, hasn’t been bad or bothersome at all. but a private is def really nice.</p>
<p>here are some huge pluses of having a private…no matter how well you’d get along with your roomate:</p>
<ol>
<li> no worrying about different waking up and sleeping times</li>
<li>won’t be sexiled by roomie and won’t sexile them either</li>
<li>don’t have to listen to your roomies music if you want to listen to yours</li>
<li>keep your room as clean or messy as you want</li>
<li>you can comfortably do other random stuff, like singing or prancing around half, or fully, naked…</li>
</ol>
<p>anyway, i’d go with private. don’t want to risk having a crappy roomate. and even if you get a great one, a private still has it’s perks.</p>
<p>I think it’s important to have a roomate your freshman year. It helps you learn to deal with other people. I’m on good terms with my roomate now after a semester and its nice sometimes to have someone to play NCAA with when you’re bored. Just make sure you set some rules at the beginning of the year and you’ll be fine. Being sexiled does suck though especially the night before a test. Who knows
I would go with the roomate at least for freshman year though.</p>
<p>man, hampshire is one scary, scary school.</p>
<p>I love having a roommate! Obviously it’s different if you don’t like the person, but for me it’s kind of like just waking up every morning with one of your best friends. Singles are nice too, but I think I’d kind of get lonely.</p>