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onaga
2007-09-02 02:26 pm UTC (link)

I'm really confused as to what the hell colleges these people are applying to (as most of them talk about refusing to go to a school if they can't have a single). In my admittedly biased and small sample, I don't think I know anybody who had a single their first year - that's including state universities and ritzy Ivy and Ivy-safety colleges.

Where are these schools with the mythical freshman singles?

(PS thoughts on yaoi: I had three different roomies my first year and they were all fine - moved from a triple to a double because our room was tiny, but I stayed friends with them. And it was all random placement. No coke fiends!)

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	(Anonymous) 2007-09-02 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	There were freshmen singles my first year at Duke, since all the freshmen live on their own little campus. So you're not really at the bottom of the housing pack until sophomore year, at which point you're not allowed a single. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ara 2007-09-04 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	Y hello there fellow Blue Devil. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amyheartssiroc 2007-09-02 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	I'm in my third year of college and I've gotten a single every year. Two of the freshman dorms have quite a few singles, and one of the perks of my scholarship is that we got first pick at freshman housing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iwanttobeasleep 2007-09-02 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	I knew a lot of freshman with singles last year. Which is incredibly weird, because the university is revamping all the dorms, so we don't actually have enough housing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachel_pi 2007-09-02 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I have no idea either. We had possible sophomore singles, but either doubles or triples for the first-years. And we HAD to live in dorms for at least three years. I got through freshman and sophomore year, but my God, if I didn't want to smother my roommate in her sleep by the end of senior year. That girl could out passive-agressive anyone. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	akilika 2007-09-03 03:08 am UTC (link)
	I don't know, but I'm suddenly really glad to go to community college. This whole idea of bein' forced to live in a dorm gives me the jeebies. You really don't get to tell me where I can live. ^^; (But then, I'm pretty sure I can get more space cheaper practically anywhere else. So.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seiberwing 2007-09-03 03:10 am UTC (link)
	Around here we've had overflow and people camping out in the lounges. Even if we had singles someone would put down inflatable mattresses. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	luthe 2007-09-03 04:39 am UTC (link)
	My college had freshmen singles. Of course, they were either a) in the language dorm, b) in the ugly modernist dorm, or c) reserved for people with severe allergies, but they existed. After that, it was almost a given you could get a single unless the upperclasswomen that year all went for them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	your_face 2007-09-03 05:43 am UTC (link)
	My college had singles the first year I was there, for the honors students (and a couple of closet-sized rooms anybody could request.) They got rid of them the second year and offered us our choice of upperclassmen housing. (Considering that the singles were the only reason I'd agreed to be in the program, that was it for me!) (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2007-09-03 07:52 am UTC (link)

At my first university, I knew a handful of freshmen with singles in my dorm. The rooms were generally so tiny, you could pretty much touch all four walls while lying on your bed and they didn't even bother putting in closets because there wasn't any room, but they were singles nonetheless. However, that was the honors dorm where all the honors college freshmen were required to live, so it's entirely possible that they intentionally set aside some solely to shuffle the more psychotic students into over the course of the semester.

At my current university, practically nobody lives in the dorms, so getting a single -- even when you transfer in almost last minute during the spring of your freshman year like I did -- is pretty much a given if you ask for it.

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funwithrage
2007-09-04 04:48 pm UTC (link)

The Ivies are actually the worst. Or at least Brown was--they got stupid and paternalistic and wouldn't let anyone move off-campus until junior year. Idiots.

I, fortunately, ended up with a decent gives-me-space roommate freshman year, and my sophomore year roommate died or dropped out or something right before school started. ResLife never caught on, so I spent the year with the biggest single in the whole damn college.

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	eldritch 2007-09-04 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	I got a single as a freshman, but I had to pull the mental illness card and get it through the disability office. It's amazing what an anxiety disorder and a letter from your therapist will do in that regard. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	heddychaa 2007-09-12 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	My university has no rooms BUT singles, until you get into third year and then you get a townhouse. . . but even then. . . private room. Mind you, we had to eat at a shitty cafeteria, which was pretty awful. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	itsirtou 2007-09-12 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	I know I'm late to the party, but Vanderbilt has singles AND doubles for freshman -- you can choose which one you want. However, we can't move off campus. Ever. This kind of cancels out how cool it is to get a single freshmen year. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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