<p>I’m only concerned about some of the responses to the OP because college is certainly not a “one size fits all” experience. Not everyone can live and study successfully in the same setting, despite a majority saying so. I don’t know the circumstances for the OP’s preferences, but criticizing the character and maturity of a person for those preferences is entirely unreasonable. </p>
<p>My freshman year was plagued with a very dysfunctional suite with 6 others in a suite configuration. You might think I was inexperienced, but in fact I had been living with roommates for the last four years in boarding school, none of those years being perfect in any sense. The fact is that college students can be very distracted, irresponsible and unreliable without meaning to be, and it is inevitable that trust will be broken and students can take it hard. </p>
<p>I’m not saying that college students are doomed to residential failure, but students should be aware that they have recourse when the residential arrangements assigned to them are not working.</p>
<p>Having a roommate is different from having your own room, comp, and stuff…some roommates go to sleep very early…so u can’t do things like talk on the phone or use ur comp, cuz it “disturbs” them…i no this from key club board meetings that I go to…</p>
<p>Also, there are some ppl who sleep really late…and I get annoyed of them…</p>
<p>Also, with multiple ppl in rooms, you have to worry about bathroom scheduling and all…</p>
<p>Basically, you can’t do w/e u want…and I don’t like such restrictions…</p>
<p>If you want to interact with ppl, you can easily do so by stepping out of your room…Roommates aren’t the only way u can meet ppl…u can also meet ppl through classes, events, and prolly juss by walking out of your dorm room…</p>
<p>All in all, I would hate sharing a room, and bathroom, with another guy…I would rather stay there by myself…Rooms and bathrooms are the last thing that I would think of sharing with another guy…</p>
<p>But, then again, everyone has their own opinions…</p>
<p>I’m a university freshman with a single as part of a suite. I like my living situation mostly. However, I got this accommodation because of two reasons: 1) I have a medical condition and 2) I’m in a learning community. I also go to a private university. Naturally, my room and board is outrageous, but I have a scholarship as well. Like other posters have said, it depends a lot on the school (you would be hard-pressed to get this lucky in a public school), your health/ableness (and don’t try and fudge one, you have to get an MD to sign off on a sheet), and your academic and service-oriented interests.</p>
<p>You could tell them that you are a transvesite and that you feel uncomfortable going into the women’s restroom because you have not had your surgery yet.</p>
<p>i’m an only child as well, and as a freshman i was thrown into a triple room with our own bathroom. i was not at all used to sharing… well, anything! and when you add the fact that most of my close friends are guys, living with two girls (one of whom rushed a sorority and later got a boyfriend, one of whom liked to party), life got interesting.
not to say that i didn’t get along with my roomies as people. they were perfectly sweet girls and we got along for the most part. but we weren’t really living-compatible, and i was the odd one out in our triple because i had the most issues with the other two (perfume, noise, bedtimes, etc).
BUT: i survived! and i am thankful that i had the experience (and equally thankful that it’s over lol). before the year was up i signed up for a single room sophomore year. i enjoy it very much compared to last year, but even though i’m an only kid and used to solitude, it’s isolating. i don’t interact with the rest of my floor, because of the floorplan of the building (single rooms are clumped in a suite at the end of the hall, off-limits to other people). next year, i’ll be LOOKING for a roommate.</p>
<p>my advice- go for the roommate. if you don’t go to my school where most frosh are stuck in triples, you’ll only have one roomie to deal with, not two. look into dorms that have suite-style rooms so that the bathrooms aren’t communal. and when you have your roommate meeting with your RA, list your groundrules. if at any point these rules are broken, bring them up! the RA is there to help you!
basically, don’t go into this situation expecting it to be horrible and that you’ll be incompatible and miserable, or else you’ll be more likely to find reasons to hate living with someone. obviously some of us (definitely me!!!) hate uncertainty and the unknown, but, you could either spend time stressing about it, or just jump in feet first and get some valuable experiences from it!</p>
<p>I don’t want a roommate either. I’ve always hated sharing a room, and when my family finally moved, the one thing I loved more than anything was having my own space. When we were in an apartment, I would pay my younger sister to sleep on the couch sometimes, just so I could be left alone. I wouldn’t mind a suite as much, but I have a hard time sharing space. Not to mention, I can’t cry when someone else is in the room. It kind of deadens me to have to look in someone else’s face all the time and never be able to get away from everything, so the stress builds until I kind of explode emotionally. I’m half-crazy, I need to be left alone. XD</p>
Not trying to imply anything, of course.</p>