One of the great advantages of going away for college and dorming is the experience of meeting people and making friends. Having a roommate can be beneficial in many ways. It is true that having a single leaves a sense of freedom and privacy to do things, but it can also seriously make one into an anti-social maniac with certain habits that probably developed within the confinement of a single room.

Seriously, if one has a roommate, one can watch horror films and go to bed without being scared sh-tless. And if one gets food poisoning, which also comes at least once with the college experience, one can be rest assured that he/she is not going to pass out senseless by throwing up.

Coming back to the point about the privacy to do things in a single room, does it really seem worth it to pay $500 more just to be able to fart in one’s room. Just go to the bathroom or go out for a walk. Fresh air is good for the soul.

If one comes to a position where the roommate is a total pain in the butt, then one can use the experience and learn a lesson in how to deal with people in life. Then the next year, pick a suitable roommate.

There are exceptions to those who want to live in a single and they do not care about making new friends but it doesn’t always have to do with making friends. It has to do with learning to interact with different types of people and not becoming that one person in the office that nobody wants to interact with and hence becoming the anti-social maniac that was mentioned before.

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