<p>I want to live alone in a room with an attached bathroom. What do you call this and what do I have to do to get one. i prefer that it be in university.
i don’t want a room-mate…
What to do?</p>
<p>Some schools require that you live in on-campus housing your first year unless you have extenuating circumstances (married, religious reasons). Some may not have rules at all (meaning you’re free to opt out of university housing and secure private (i.e. apartment) housing). </p>
<p>As an incoming student, you will have lowest priority in choosing housing so your chances of obtaining a single room are the worst.</p>
<p>Some schools believe that the communal living environment (which includes new roommates) is part of the enriching process of a college education. One may see an 18-year old’s desire to be separate as anti-social and anti- intellectual, frankly. American universities thrive on the communal housing environment. Don’t remove yourself from this important aspect of an American college environment</p>
<p>so, for a typical uninversity how quickly can I separate?</p>
<p>singles? Why don’t you just get your own apartment?</p>
<p>Singles tend to be reserved for disabled students and such. You can get an apartment, but I would recommend trying out dorm life (yes, with a room mate) for a while. It’s primarily where you make your first friends in college.</p>
<p>the stories in the parents forum have scared the living hell out of me.</p>
<p>if i rent an apartment, will the university take this as something negative?</p>
<p>can i use an excuse?</p>
<p>Some schools require freshmen to live on campus, so an apartment might not even be an option. Best to check on this.</p>
<p>well some schools require you to stay on campus…</p>
<p>Why no roommate?</p>
<p>A lot of schools require that you stay on campus, but e-mail them or check out their housing guidelines to see if there are any exceptions. Although honestly, if you’re not married, have no kids or major illnesses, then I doubt you’d get far in that.</p>
<p>Because of this
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/420320-dorm-roommate-horror-stories-baby-boomers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/420320-dorm-roommate-horror-stories-baby-boomers.html</a></p>
<p>You might consider universities outside the US. I know one of my daughter’s friends at University of Victoria is a freshman in a dorm where they all have singles with their own bathrooms.</p>
<p>some US universities have suite set ups where there are maybe 2 doubles and 2 singles sharing a bathroom. if you request a single you might get this. plus, you wont reallly miss out on the roommate thing bc you have suitemates.</p>
<p>it really just depends on the college. although most colleges require freshmen to stay on campus and single rooms are often for upperclassmen.</p>
<p>I noticed on another thread you are interested in the UCs. The UCs do not require freshmen live on campus. Some UCs, such as UCDavis, have privately run dorms on or near campus that don’t go by the seniority system for picking rooms. I also understand UCMerced has brand new dorms, and might have singles available for freshmen. </p>
<p>As for private universities, the more traditional universities tend to have the requirement that freshmen live on campus, and single rooms are by seniority. But some of the newer universities have newer housing and more singles available.</p>
<p>apples- honestly do those stories scare you? How do you think they felt when those stories actually happened to them? They survived to tell all- trust me, years later you will look back and laugh. Even I have my own horror roommate story that tops almost everyone else’s (actually 2) and I’m just a senior right now. Believe me, my friends wish that they had better stories than mine! That’s the FUN of going to college and living in a dorm with a roommate. You’ll get a great experience to share with others down the road even if the life seems miserable at first. It’s the rite of passage.</p>
<p>But to be honest, a LOT of roommates aren’t like that which explains why my friends don’t have much of roommate stories to tell me. All of my other roommates aren’t really worth telling about except how fabulous they were. I’m just grateful to have that “horror” roommate just so I can tell a story 
You’ll grow. Everyone grows together to find a balance for each other. You’ll learn a lot from each other. You don’t have to be best friends or the worst of enemies, you just learn to be civil to each other in order to get through the semester/year. If you don’t like your roommate after a few weeks, you can always talk to your RA or Res Life for a switch (CONSULT with your roommate first!!!) You just learn to cooperate and let some things go (like learning to realize that you don’t dominate the ENTIRE room, you control what goes on on YOUR side…)</p>
<p>As for your own bathroom, are you spoiled? Just buy a pair of flip-flops, a bathrobe and a shower caddy to keep all your tolietries together and you’re good to go. Toting the stuff back and forth IS a pain but… at least you know that your stuff will never be used by someone else! (That’s the problem of living in a HOUSE with a bunch of other people…)</p>
<p>Just remember… it’s only 2 years out of 80 something years of your life that you’ll have to live “in a camp” 24/7.</p>
<p>Who knows… you might have your own horror roommate story that will top everyone else on CC!</p>
<p>You could look at places that have suite-type rooms. You share with a somewhat larger group, but in some ways that’s better. You’re bound to get along with at least one of your roommates, and I think having a slightly larger group helps suppress some of the crazy in people. Your suite usually has a bathroom, so you’re sharing with a small group of people instead of the whole floor, and it’s more homey. Many suite arrangements even have a separate bedroom for each student, so you have a place to escape.</p>
<p>It just depends on your university. If you get assigned a roommate, you can always contact housing and very politely request a single room. They might not change you, but my sister got a single room her freshman year because she asked. However, at Emory, the single rooms are more expensive, and just big enough for a single bed, a space to stand, and then a desk pushed up against the wall. And the bathroom was down the hall.</p>
<p>Just be flexible. You might not be able to get a single bathroom, but a single room is much easier to accomidate. But like I said, just be polite and flexible and they’ll probably be willing to work with you to come up with a solution.</p>
<p>Nobody on my floor except for one person that I know has a similar roommate horror story. Most of us get along with our roommates fine, even if we aren’t best friends with them or hang out with them all the time. It’s okay to be nervous about a roommate, but they realliy aren’t that bad.</p>
<p>I actually picked out my roommate on Facebook before I came to school. We went to the same scholarship weekend and then later on I messaged him to ask if we could be roommates and we signed up for each other. It has worked out great!</p>
<p>Uh, are you serious OP? I thought you might have a legitimate reason for not wanting a roommate.</p>
<p>It’s something that pretty much everybody does, just suck it up and get a double room. It’s an experience that you should have. You might become friends with your roommate, or you might not; that’s not the point. You will certainly learn how to deal with people and gain some insight.</p>