Preface

I’ll be going to college that is a bit further away (i.e.: daily commute not possible) and will have to live in a dorm (can’t afford anything better).
Unfortunately, no single-bed rooms seem available and I have a bit of an issue with being with people (any).
Currently I live with parents, which for me is also not easy to deal with. I usually spend most of the days on toilet (separate room from bathroom in our case) sitting on ground, with laptop on the closed toilet itself, as a room replacement.

Personal preferences (in order of importance)

1. Room privacy/separation
2. Bathroom privacy
3. Distance from faculty
4. Food access

Buildings

Let’s give them some names…

1. CRAP (Can’t Receive Any Privacy)
   • 2-bed rooms
   • Shared bathroom
   • 4.5km away from faculty
2. PRISON (Packed Room Is Single Only Negative)
   • 2 and 3-bed rooms, 2 rooms per cell
   • One bathroom per cell
   • Cafeteria
   • Buffet
   • 1km away from faculty

Available information

• Total number of beds
• Remaining number of beds (since some are occupied by prior students)
• Number of current pending reservations (i.e. how many want the room)
• Price (irrelevant)
• Nationality of interested/housed students

Current situation

Naturally, most students prefer to live in PRISON rather than CRAP, hence all those rooms already have either current students or interested ones.
As of now, after 2 days (5 days remaining for current round), the CRAP still has 11 rooms with nobody in them and no reservations.

Possible strategies and their flaws

Risky, potentially high gain

Set one of the empty CRAP rooms as high priority. If it survives the next, final round without additional reservations, I could have a separate room.
Flaws: If it does not, I’ll end up with a random roommate nevertheless, but in a shitty far away building with shared bathrooms and no cafeteria and buffet. In the end, only piling up drawbacks. Additionally, there seems to be currently empty rooms with multiple reservations in CRAP. Either these are friends, and it’s nothing to be worried about, or, there’s people who prefer a roommate for whatever fucking reason.

Expected misery

Choose any 2-bed room in a PRISON cell, for sure getting a room in better, nearby situated building, with one-person-at-a-time bathrooms, and the cafeteria and buffet.
Flaws: There will be a roommate, and my only choice can be between their nationalities, but I will not be alone.

So should I take one of the PRISON cells, or end up stuck in CRAP?

(Yes I had fun with the acronyms)