Might be getting a medical single

I'm a junior/senior in college (started in Fall 2009, but am not graduating until next December), and I've always had a roommate, but never a randomly assigned one.

My roommate freshman year was one of my good friends from high school, my roommate sophomore year and last year was a mutual friend of myself and another friend of mine, and at the start of this year, my roommate was one of my good friends I met freshman year [of college].

Anyway, because of conflict and drama, I moved out of the townhouse I was living in, and into an apartment with another friend (all campus housing). The apartment is meant for 3 people as there's a single and a double. I was placed in the double and told that I would most likely get a roommate. I expressed concern about this because I'm bipolar and haven't yet reached full stability. So for last semester, they didn't give me a roommate...but since the semester ended and they want to put people in the correct housing for next semester, I got an email from the housing director saying that I was going to be assigned a roommate next semester and that when that happens I would get her name and contact info.

So I emailed her back saying once again that I had concerns about that, and she said that she understands but has a duty to put people in appropriate housing, but I could apply for a medical single if I wanted.

I decided that yeah, I'll apply for it. Doing this requires a form to be filled out by the student, and by a medical professional with knowledge of the patient/condition. So I emailed my pdoc with the form, and he filled it out, and I just got it back today. The form says BP II, active+chronic, and that I have anxiety, sleep issues, depression, etc. and am recommended to have a single due to "emotional needs."

Hopefully this means my school will grant me a single and that will carry over to next year as well. It's definitely better for me to have a room to myself -- I've learned that from having one. There's no one for me to bother if I'm hypo and up cleaning at 2am, there's no one to bother me if I'm in one of my "I hate the world and everyone it in" moods, and I can just be.

That would be awesome. I hope you get it. It makes sense.

Thanks. Yeah, it does make sense. I mean...for both me, and a potential roommate.

Yeah and for colleges to offer them. I bet they spend a lot of time with roommate disputes. And for what college costs. And then after the sui at Rutgers last year, after the guy broadcasted his roommate's date.

Yeah, definitely.

And it's not that I dislike having a roommate, I don't. (Although I must say I do prefer not having a roommate...but in the past, I've roomed with people I know and who understand that I have a medical condition and are able to put up with my craziness. I don't want to subject some poor, innocent soul to what I can be like, ya know?