Living Conditions - Spoiled kids used to privacy and needing additional mattress space to have premarital sex are influencing the design of new residences at colleges and universities! Let me speak from personal experience and say that sharing a twin XL with Kevin didn't make for the most restful sleeping conditions for either of us. However, I did have some good dorm experiences and the housing gods made a great match in setting me up to share a room with Netty, who became and still is a close friend. I'm not sure that further isolation in an apartment or suite would have been the best thing for me in terms of cultivating friendship. But, I didn't really have an option, with off-campus housing being prohibitively expensive in Palo Alto.