Oh I didn't mean that dorms don't have single rooms, just that they generally don't have single-room apartments (meaning one person to each apartment). Usually they have apartments with a few single rooms, a kitchen, little living room, and a bathroom or 2 (unless you go to NYU, then you live in the equivalent of the crappiest dorm on your undergrad campus). Single-sex, and all that good stuff. Schools often also have married people housing, but usually you can't get an apartment all by yourself.
Oh, I see! So the dorms are not really similar at all to the single/double rooms lacking kitchens that are offered in undergrad campuses. Although for some reason I was told this was exactly the situation at Havard Medical School, of all places.
I assume that at most schools, dorms are only required/suggested for first year medical students? This is actually the case at my undergrad, as well, so I am merely wondering if the same reasoning applies. And do these dorms typically provide housing for 12 months, or do they kick you out over breaks, like undergrad dorms?
Haha, I'm not planning a move-in to medical school dorms anytime soon, but I am merely curious as to
why a medical student would want to live in a dorm!
As for me, I usually do some of the basic studying at home (like, pre-reading for lecture, daily stuff) but do the major studying in the library at school so I have no distractions. When I'm studying in the library, I see people all the time, so by the time I get home I don't get lonely at all. When I'm studying at home, I work best without noise from roommates. Win, win.
I basically follow this same routine in undergrad. Except to be honest, I do my main studying in the library to
avoid my roommate. Sometimes the presence of someone else in the room makes it difficult for me to feel entirely at home in my dorm...just a side thing I noticed lately. But coming back to the room after studying and still having someone to talk to is usually nice...unless I still have studying to do after the library closes, in which case I fear I may come off a bit abrupt with my roommate.
Something else I realized is that I would
not be able to room with a pre-med, due to the competition that would inevitably result between us. Do you feel as though rooming with a fellow med student would have the same effect?
