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My school's housing system is pretty stupid. It's a lottery system every year, so I've moved every year for the past 3 and have had differentroommates for all 3 years even though I applied to be roommates with friends. I got the contracts, they didn't.
As far as random roommates go, I've seen both ends of the spectrum. My 2nd year, I got thrown into a double with this guy I ended up becoming really goodfriends with. The summer before my third year, on the other hand, I moved out in 2 weeks. He was the worst roommate imaginable---filthy, rude, loud,inconsiderate, disrespectful, you name it he did it. My first year my roommates were pretty bad, but I lasted the whole year. Luckily the set up of the roomwas 2 people in a big room in the middle, and 1 person each in 2 small rooms on the side of the middle room. I had one of the small rooms to myself, but thedudes in the middle smoked weed and stayed up until 3am everyday just through a thin wall.
This year, things are decent, but I didn't get picked in the school's lottery system to renew my lease. So I snagged a single studio apartment for mysenior year. Expensive, but I work almost 20 hours a week and owe it to myself, especially with the difficulty level of my senior year classes...I don'tneed the distractions of new roommates.
So my advice is if you can afford it, get a single unless you're willing to take a pretty big risk. Joining a club or frat or even taking really hardclasses where you need to form study groups is more than enough to be social. You don't need to be worrying about your living situation with the amount ofcrap college puts you through on top of that.
As far as random roommates go, I've seen both ends of the spectrum. My 2nd year, I got thrown into a double with this guy I ended up becoming really goodfriends with. The summer before my third year, on the other hand, I moved out in 2 weeks. He was the worst roommate imaginable---filthy, rude, loud,inconsiderate, disrespectful, you name it he did it. My first year my roommates were pretty bad, but I lasted the whole year. Luckily the set up of the roomwas 2 people in a big room in the middle, and 1 person each in 2 small rooms on the side of the middle room. I had one of the small rooms to myself, but thedudes in the middle smoked weed and stayed up until 3am everyday just through a thin wall.
This year, things are decent, but I didn't get picked in the school's lottery system to renew my lease. So I snagged a single studio apartment for mysenior year. Expensive, but I work almost 20 hours a week and owe it to myself, especially with the difficulty level of my senior year classes...I don'tneed the distractions of new roommates.
So my advice is if you can afford it, get a single unless you're willing to take a pretty big risk. Joining a club or frat or even taking really hardclasses where you need to form study groups is more than enough to be social. You don't need to be worrying about your living situation with the amount ofcrap college puts you through on top of that.
