I did this for a year and now I'm not sure why...there were apartments that were actually cheaper to live in by myself and even with private bedrooms it didn't make that much of a difference...we still had to share the kitchen etc. which meant I to wait until one of the roommates was gone (the other one was ok) and frequently spent time "cooking" with her annoying friends and just all this other stuff at night...it's just...no.

Will they let you live off campus? There's got to be cheaper housing somewhere where you can live alone...no one should be forced to have roommates. It was the most horrible experience of all my seven years of college.

Maybe you can talk to someone at the college (I'm not sure who...maybe your advisor would know?) and see if they can make an exception for you. I pretty much had a sort of mental breakdown...started seeing things, heightened paranoia, spent nights hiding in the closet in my bathroom just so I could have two locked doors between me and the rest of the apartment.

And this was all with me going in thinking I could live with other people...if you already know that you probably won't be able to...DON'T. Don't go through what I did.