Dorm Room Accommodations

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I had a single room my freshman year, but I just requested and paid for it because I didn't know better.

Something really, really important that you should all know: In the US, you CAN have a pet in a dorm room if your doctor says you need it as a comfort/companion animal. I wish I'd known.

I had the option of a single room, but it was an extra $1000. I chose to get a roommate, and the experience is quite good.

Tim

In Ann Arbor, 2 semesters worth of living in a single apartment(without a meal plan) or a dorm double(With meal plan) is $8000.

Its calculated to be $724 a month which given the location isn't that bad.

However, I life about 35 minutes away from campus and given the state of my stomach this semester I have spent equally as much time driving back home as in the apartment.

If only I could get my parents to like me a little bit more(I take the dog out when I come home, I do all the dishes, and I regularly do house work) but they want me to live in College because they think that putting me up in the campus will influence me to make friends.

I would much rather live at home and save the $8,000.

At the beginning of the semester I was in a double dorm room for 2 months and it SUCKED. My roommate had a totally different personality so we didn't get along.

Honestly, I know what people say. But living with your parents isn't actually all that bad. You just have to get out of the house after you graduate because you don't want to be the 30 year old who still lives in his parents basement.....or do you :X?

Usually for juniors and seniors, there is also an option of apartment-style dorms at most universities.

Tim

Thank you Tim, I should have mentioned that.

Are your rates as crazy as mine?

No, they're quite reasonable. Also, I have financial aid, a scholarship, and my parents paying for everything.

Tim

I've had two roomates so far (in my second year atm), the second one left, so currently have my room to myself...

its ok, both was are fine to me, I don't mind having a roommate at all

My first roommate was ok, she wasn't hte best, but wasn't the worst either... one big annoying thing was that she was a VERY light sleeper, and would go to bed between 8-11pm... >_<;;; even on weekends... but I just used my laptop until 3am or whenever I went to sleep (although, lights on was a no no, and opening a bag of chips or can of soda'd wake her up)

My second roommate was pretty nice, she tried to get me to be involved w/ her friends and stuff, but I explained to her I wasn't very comfortable going over to other ppls places I didnt know and stuff... so she had her friends come over to our room, which was ok... then we went over to hers, and she like devised a signal so if I wanted to leave, she could come up wth an excuse so we could leave, w/o me feeling bad-- which was nice, although I wasn't all too keen on going (but they were nice, and wanted to make more friends)

But she left to live w/ her sister (although I kinda think its my fault, what with me sneaking a rabbit in my room and stuff)

Living alone is ok, although it actually gets to be a bit lonely... but nice when you have friends over and stuff (alot messier too... which I like, but on other hand, ahing roommate keeps me neat, AND I can rely on their alarm clocks as well to wake me up ><)


I'm lucky in that I'm a very heavy sleeper... once I fall asleep, although my last roommate told me she was shocked, because she thought I fell into nightmares the second I fell asleep, but was just me and my subconcious habbit of rolling around like a nutcase (I wake up with bruises all over all the time)

My only quirk I suppose is that I need 5-8 comforters to sleep, so its weird at first my roommates seeing me under all that, but otherwise, I think I get along pretty well... I tend to be the one in my room all the time, and if they're there I just have headphones on and ignore them, what I did at home, what I do here... its comfortable for me, so I don't mind them there at all


In regards to other accommodations... really depends on the person, the counselors here were trying to talk me into signing up for disabilities so I can get extra time on tests, sit up close to teacher to hear and stuff, but I refuse. I don't need any advantage over anyone else, I'm quite fine how I am, and I don't care how many "disabilities" I have, nothing is so bad I need any advantage, so I refuse to consider it at all. But thats just me, its your choice, but I prefer the challenge, and to be equal to everyone else, so really depends on how hard it is for you and how much you care about such things

I agree with you about accommodations. In high school they wanted to give me accommodations, but I refused because I was like "no i can do as well as the other students.. etc". Well, it is true I am usually able to take the test and do reasonably well, and so forth like that. But at the same rate, I realize now that I get extremely stressed about being the last person finishing on a test, or finishing with very little time left. Also when I notice others finishing before me I get extremely distracted with this.

The computer-related ones are not dire needs, and I probably will not even ask for them anymore. At the time of posting this I was thinking of it, but it is not so much a problem. It would be nice so that I could keep myself more organized (I am very disorganized unfortunately) but it really isn't essential. Although I would honestly see no inconvenience to the teachers to allow me to print out hand-written assignments vs handwriting them with paper and pencil. Both instances are clearly hand written, on paper, etc. They would just have to be aware of this I think is all.

As for the room thing, I am currently living in a double with a roommate. This is me attempting to do this, not "give-in" to my "disability" (although I do refuse to think of it as a disability, it is more of a, well I just function differently than others). Anyway, my roommate is very nice, but the problem is that it is her room also. I do not have the right to tell her she always needs to have headphones on, or that sometimes I just don't want anyone around. This is not my right, and I shall not impose myself unto anyone else in such a way. But at the same time, these are things that I need.

I hope maybe I have cleared it up a bit for you. I do not feel I am exploiting my "disability". That would be like saying a blind person who asks for braile is exploitng their disability. Really, it comes down to the same thing.

Ok, i guess i agree with you now. I just don't like it when people abuse their diagnosis. Sorry for being rude in my first post.

It's alright. I understand where you are coming from. I know several people with disabilities who get a disability check from the government and just sit around all day. There are situations where that is acceptable and necessary, but these people are very highly functional and very intelligent.

Anyway I'm glad I could help you understand where I am coming from.

I don't know how I feel about accommodations for testing. Some people need them, but I believe that it is overused. I have a friend who is just diagnosed with some kind of learning disability. I'd say that it's more she's just an obsessive person, not a real 'problem' but I can't diagnosis her. She got as much time in general as she needed on all tests, as well as double the time on the SAT. If she did't finish a test in class, she got to finish it after class. She got nearly straight A's in upper level classes. Her SAT scores were pretty good. She could do the first part of the test, then double check the answer to something before the next test (it wasn't as bad as it could have been, but it gave her a small advantage). She always got extra time to double check her work at the end. I understand it's stressful to not be able to finish a test. But if I wasn't always stressed out about finishing a calc test in time, I wouldnt hand in the non calc part too early so I'd have time to do the calc part - then find out the calc part was really easy and I shouldve spent more time on the first part. If i knew I had as much time as I wanted to do a test essay, I'd take a lot more time to plan out, and my test would come out a lot better. If I had double time to do the SATs, I'd probably have a 2400! If she needed extra time to pass, I'd be more understanding. But extra time to do better than most people? I believe she does have some type of problem, but it was really really frustrating to me. It seems a bit unfair.

Oh gosh yeah. I don't think that is fair. I am not looking for extra time so that I can do like, perfect A+. Actually if I could have a quiet enviroment that would probably solve most of my problem. Just in the noisy classroom enviroment really messes with me. But anyway, I totally understand what your saying about having more time to get perfect scores and such. That would never be my objective. I'd just like to get the score that I know I deserve when I understand the material. (Example, I got a 54% on a math test when I perfectly well knew everything and should have atleast gotten a C/B.)

Also I never asked for such things during high school. The SAT was hella stressful but I managed it. Got a 1750, which is not too bad. But anyway, I totally think that it is unfair to have someone getting a perfect score or nearly because they have a lot of extra time. If they are doing that, then clearly they don't need the extra time. Just my opinion.