What I don’t see folks mentioning is that you don’t have to get blackout blinds. It’s really optimal sleeping conditions. As long as air quality is healthy and

What I don’t see folks mentioning is that you don’t have to get blackout blinds. It’s really optimal sleeping conditions. As long as air quality is healthy and filtered, it would make a great place to sleep or quietly study. Meals and all other items force you out of the room into a common area, and honestly the lack of windows would motivate me to get outside and meet people, which is what you want in college. No reason to make a single dorm comfortable enough that you never have to leave or use another study space on campus. I lived in a single one year, and the window looked into other windows, so it was closed most of the time. I might have preferred windowless if it meant I could get black out sleeping conditions. The two entry ways are also good for bumping into people / making conversation. It’s good for socialization, which is important. COVID makes all of this very weird, and isolating in place due to COVID exposure in a windowless pod with 7 other people and two shared bathrooms and no natural light for 2 weeks would be awful.