<p>I’d like to chime in with a dissenting opinion from the majority here. (I’m an alum, graduated 2 years ago.)</p>
<p>Living in a single freshman year is fine. You won’t be starved for social interaction or for friends, I have plenty of friends who had singles in Greenough or Hurlbut freshman year and their social lives didn’t suffer for it. Personally, I lived in Wigglesworth and my roommates had absolutely nothing to do with how social I was; all of my friends came from courses, the student groups I was involved with, or those I met other ways throughout the course of my years in college. </p>
<p>I too am a person that values “me” time. I function best when I have a sanctuary where I’m not constantly forced to interact with other people. I’m capable of living with others, but is it my preference? No. Privacy isn’t something people should be so quick to discount, and someone valuing their privacy or the ability to spend time alone doesn’t make them “anti-social.” Being that way is no better or worse than being the kind of person who relishes constant social interaction, it’s just different. So to the OP, if you know yourself well enough that you feel you’d be happiest and healthiest with a single, go ahead and ask for one. </p>
<p>It really isn’t as big a deal as some folks are trying to make it out to be.</p>