Reply to New roommate emails to request they be given the desk and bed by the window. Wwyd?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "New roommate emails to request they be given the desk and bed by the window. Wwyd?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do colleges insist on this outdated idea of roommates anyway? My eighth grader, who is an only child, insists that she would rather commute to George Mason when she is in college than share a room.

Are there schools where single rooms the norm, or at least a possibility for a freshman?[/quote]

Some schools let you buy out the other half of a double for a higher price, often twice the rate you'd pay with a roommate. Others have honors dorms set up as four-person suites with individual bedrooms and a common room. Alabama comes to mind.

But gat dang, assuming she goes to a school that allows students to live off campus as a sophomore and up, it's one frigg'n year — and that year is crucial to finding your niche and establishing yourself as part of the campus scene. Is sharing a room for a year that terrifying for your kid that she'd rather be a loser living at home in her childhood bedroom and not having a life on campus than just learn to deal with the temporary inconvenience?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics