Preface
I'll be going to college that is a bit further away (i.e.: daily commute not possible) and will have to live in a dorm (can't afford anything better).
Unfortunately, no single-bed rooms seem available and I have a bit of an issue with being with people (any).
Currently I live with parents, which for me is also not easy to deal with. I usually spend most of the days on toilet (separate room from bathroom in our case) sitting on ground, with laptop on the closed toilet itself, as a room replacement.
Personal preferences (in order of importance)
- Room privacy/separation
- Bathroom privacy
- Distance from faculty
- Food access
Buildings
Let's give them some names...
- CRAP (Can't Receive Any Privacy)
- 2-bed rooms
- Shared bathroom
- 4.5km away from faculty
- PRISON (Packed Room Is Single Only Negative)
- 2 and 3-bed rooms, 2 rooms per cell
- One bathroom per cell
- Cafeteria
- Buffet
- 1km away from faculty
Available information
- Total number of beds
- Remaining number of beds (since some are occupied by prior students)
- Number of current pending reservations (i.e. how many want the room)
- Price (irrelevant)
- Nationality of interested/housed students
Current situation
Naturally, most students prefer to live in PRISON rather than CRAP, hence all those rooms already have either current students or interested ones.
As of now, after 2 days (5 days remaining for current round), the CRAP still has 11 rooms with nobody in them and no reservations.
Possible strategies and their flaws
Risky, potentially high gain
Set one of the empty CRAP rooms as high priority. If it survives the next, final round without additional reservations, I could have a separate room.
Flaws: If it does not, I'll end up with a random roommate nevertheless, but in a shitty far away building with shared bathrooms and no cafeteria and buffet. In the end, only piling up drawbacks. Additionally, there seems to be currently empty rooms with multiple reservations in CRAP. Either these are friends, and it's nothing to be worried about, or, there's people who prefer a roommate for whatever fucking reason.
Expected misery
Choose any 2-bed room in a PRISON cell, for sure getting a room in better, nearby situated building, with one-person-at-a-time bathrooms, and the cafeteria and buffet.
Flaws: There will be a roommate, and my only choice can be between their nationalities, but I will not be alone.
So should I take one of the PRISON cells, or end up stuck in CRAP?
(Yes I had fun with the acronyms)
Yo if you are just going into college with no previous credits from any other school, you should be able to take like the first 2-3 semesters all online.have you looked into doing something like that? Even if this school doesnt have online available, tons of schools do and going remotely expands the number of schools you have available. Plus the only time the schools name will matter is on your graduation document. Its honestly so dumb when people go to places like Syracuse/Columbia/RIT (not to give away what hemisphere im in lol) for all 4-6 years of their degree when they could be doing community college for 2 years at 1/100th (total guess) the cost of a university.
I am from Europe, probably works different here. At least what you described doesn't sound like anything I heard.
Plus the "cost". There isn't one with public and state schools, at least in Slovak and probably minority languages (like Hungarian), not sure about the latter though.
But you do have to pay if you exceed standard study time, i.e.: repeating a whole year, and probably if switching schools too.
Really, I am only going there because I don't know what else to do, and it's not going to cost much. At least not monetarily xD