That’s the advice you’re always given, right? Do you always take it? I try to, but when my parents argue the other side, I take heed to them more than my gut. When I first decided to come to Framingham State, I wanted to apply to live in a single dorm room, rather than be randomly assigned a roommate in a randomly assigned building. Being an only child, I have never had to share a room with anyone and wanted to keep that tradition alive. My parents, on the other hand, were concerned I’d never make friends and wouldn’t come out of my shell. So, I did as they instructed and put the single room out of my mind. I was assigned a room and roommate and, I’ll admit, I had a great experience my freshman year. While all the friends I began to make hated their random roommates, I loved mine. We got along wonderfully and there were never any issues between us. It was all downhill after that.
Sophomore year, I decided to room with a friend I had made the year before. This turned out to be the biggest mistake I could have ever made. Simply put, she was what you might call the “nightmare roommate.” She showered once a week at best and seemed to be a vampire because she never put the shade up on the window. How I survived that year, I will never know. As soon as that year was over, I knew I had to room with someone else. And I did. She was a great person, but just an OK roommate. I hated leaving my room on the weekends for fear of coming back to find my belongings messed with, which did happen – including finding crumbs in my bed, not on, but in my bed.
I have to agree about the single room choice. I've had my share of bad roommates and that is what ultimately lead me to choose a single for my fourth and final year, and I have to say it's probably the best decision I've made in college so far. If you've never lived with someone before, college can be a rude awakening. I think people automatically associate single's with antisocial behavior and depression. Really, we all just prefer our own space and more freedom.
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