We are paying over $10,000 a year for a single person room that has been converted into a double. That's 50 sq feet of living space.

Refer to the link for a video shot of the room for all you visual learners out there.

http://hdh.ucsd.edu/housing/roomtype.asp?tour=1#virtual

"Here's some math for those of y'all in a temp-double. (me included).

A triple divided among 3 people gives each person an average 63.33 sq ft of living room.
A temp-double divided among 2 people gives each person on average 50 sq ft of living room.

However we're paying ~$800 more dollars for 13.33 less square feet of living room.

And we're not even given a desk.
 
Without a desk, how will we effectively and comfortably study in a less comfortable environment?

Many of us don't mind roommates, but this living condition is even smaller then a triple.

Thus, I propose that instead of shoving us in these tiny singles they should do what UCI did last year and offer some apartment complexes they run agreements with as one of the solutions to this overflow of students and not enough housing and dorms on campus.

I would rather take a few more minutes in the morning and be able to breathe, sleep, and study comfortably, and I'm sure many of you would too.

I understand the over enrolling is hard to work around, but I hope that UCSD can somehow work to open up more housing options that or at least lower the price to dorm down to a triple, if not lower because we are, in fact, getting less space and a smaller room to live in.