This whole quarter, my room mate and I have been living in temporary housing at our school, we currently live in a study lounge.
Yesterday I was notified about two or three hours before my room mate that we were going to be moved from our lounge, and into our permanent rooms. However, my room mate and I won't be rooming together. There are only two options, one of us gets to live in a single, the other gets to live in a double, like our current situation, only in a slightly larger room.
So the debate is, who gets the single? We both want it.
-My room mate had a tough time finding the money to pay for this quarters bill, and it obviously costs more to have a single. However, the way he sees it, it costs an extra $400 onto a bill that already costs somewheres in the $10,000 range, so he says, "what's an extra $400?"
-My arguement is, if he gets the single room, and he can't pay for next quarter, which means he can't come back... then he'll have to move out of that single and I will still be stuck in a double because someone else who is temporary housing will have priority over that single, I won't have first dibs on it like I currently do. Whether or not I like it or not, I'm going to be here next semester, I have the money ready to go, and even if I didn't, my parents would re-mortgage our house to send me back to school next quarter, so I WILL be here next quarter.
With my arguement stated, I feel that I should have the lock on the room. But it's not all peaches, the rooms are both in my current building, one floor up. I really like living on my current floor and I would do anything to stay here... including trading away a single to move into a double with one of my friends on the floor. The difficulty is finding someone that is willing to spend the extra buck to live in a single... or to find someone that is willing to move out of their current double to live in another double.
So I do want the single, but I don't.
So that's the debate... any ideas? who should have priority? ...just an interesting read...? comments? questions? Profanity?
Yesterday I was notified about two or three hours before my room mate that we were going to be moved from our lounge, and into our permanent rooms. However, my room mate and I won't be rooming together. There are only two options, one of us gets to live in a single, the other gets to live in a double, like our current situation, only in a slightly larger room.
So the debate is, who gets the single? We both want it.
-My room mate had a tough time finding the money to pay for this quarters bill, and it obviously costs more to have a single. However, the way he sees it, it costs an extra $400 onto a bill that already costs somewheres in the $10,000 range, so he says, "what's an extra $400?"
-My arguement is, if he gets the single room, and he can't pay for next quarter, which means he can't come back... then he'll have to move out of that single and I will still be stuck in a double because someone else who is temporary housing will have priority over that single, I won't have first dibs on it like I currently do. Whether or not I like it or not, I'm going to be here next semester, I have the money ready to go, and even if I didn't, my parents would re-mortgage our house to send me back to school next quarter, so I WILL be here next quarter.
With my arguement stated, I feel that I should have the lock on the room. But it's not all peaches, the rooms are both in my current building, one floor up. I really like living on my current floor and I would do anything to stay here... including trading away a single to move into a double with one of my friends on the floor. The difficulty is finding someone that is willing to spend the extra buck to live in a single... or to find someone that is willing to move out of their current double to live in another double.
So I do want the single, but I don't.
So that's the debate... any ideas? who should have priority? ...just an interesting read...? comments? questions? Profanity?
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