A single room recently opened up in my suite, so I asked for it to be transferred to me. Spring housing assignments recently came out, and I found out some random senior (who I am pretty sure isn’t guaranteed housing) ended up with it.

This isn’t my first negative encounter with housing. Last year, I requested a single in a suite with my friends. Not getting the single was something I could handle, until I found out what happened this year. The two friends I wanted to live with are in the same building as me and they have two other roommates who each have singles. I mean, are you kidding me, Northeastern housing staff? When a single opens up in my suite, and I’m offering to pay you almost double the amount I do now, you still don’t want to give it to me?

I’m a pharmacy student with a ton of work and I need peace and quiet. My old roommate (as nice a guy as he was) loved to play video games until 2 a.m. even when I had exams the next morning. So when a solution as close as just down my hall opens up, I don’t get why this happens. I’m a little shocked at the outcome, as well as the lack of basic reasoning.

—Alex Fairhurst is a sophomore pharmacy major.