As a first-year student, do you have to have a roommate in college? Is it possible to live alone?

How exciting for you to be heading to college - congratulations. I know that most colleges strongly encourage ALL students to share a room with one, sometimes two roommates. This can turn out to be a wonderful experience, a disaster, but usually it's somewhere in-between.

The lessons learned are often worth the less than pleasant parts of sharing living space with relative strangers. However, if you feel particularly strongly about NOT sharing you may appeal to the housing department of most schools to request a meeting with an appropriate staff member. In this meeting you will be pressed very strongly to explain your reasons for wishing or needing privacy; this might be based on emotional reaons (depression, claustrophopia...) but the interview is often intense, so your case must be valid and may require support from an outside party; doctor, counsellor, teacher(s), mentor... Colleges really encourage students to share because it is looked upon as, in most circumstances, a positive learning experience - but for some students it just doesn't work for them!

Consider the pros and cons, check out your options and ability to appeal a decision. Best of luck, and I hope you have a fabulous senior year.

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