single rooms freshman year help pls

Has literally no impact. Most of the time roommates suck and all your friends have zero connection. From what I see roommates have very seperate, different social lives. That being said, it could help meet a few new people.

For me, after O week my roommate and I had different friend groups, never hung out together, and only rarely did we overlap.

You will literally have NO impact on your social life by taking a single, BUT you may have times where you miss out on a roommate experience...sometimes you can get a close bond hanging out with a roommate. And you have someone to chit chat with during throughout the day, whereas friends are more formal. But for the most part, a serious social life, it will having nothing to do with it.

Yes, Roommates are risks indeed.

Ultimately everyone has different social lives, frat circles, social groups, and having a roommate doesn't really help with that.

I wish I didn't have a roommate. It contributed to zero friends, a lot of conflicts. I think a misconception a lot of Pfrosh have is how the social scene can work...it's not like you and your roommate really go and do everything together...sometimes you can, otherwise I feel like everyone has their own groups very independent of roommates.

Ultimately rush fraternities and SLGS further separating roommates, and having literally zero connection.

Also I know a lot of people that moved out of roommates cause of conflicts...at least 5 people in my dorm.

To be blunt, nothing at Duke will save you from being friendless. Not even having a roommate. Not only that, let's say you have no friends at Duke, you have to be confident enough to find your friends yourself. Because, your roommate may have a friend group that's not good fit for you...and it won't work anyway. Thats why I think people find their own groups, and you'll naturally find people that you click with, and your roommate will have little to do with this.

All of my semesters at Duke my roommate and I had different social circles, communicated mostly in our rooms about random things. Yes, we would hang out together at times, but not all the time. And plus, there's a difference between real friendship and just hanging out with someone.

From what I can breakdown, people find their groups, rush a social circle, and mostly don't hang out with other people at Duke. Since people are so cliquey this happens, and also if you want to meet new people later on, to be honest, it's hard, but having a roommate neither helps this, nor is likely to lead to many more friends. Everyone has to take their own initiatitive to hang with their friends...it's not going to happen with another person helping you out much.

don't get a single unless you hook up with girls all the time. it's harder and it's nice to have a roommate