You know, I am really, really beginning to wonder what people like about university.
There have been no redeeming qualities to it, really. I'm studying a subject I like, yet I'm hating it. Can't socialise. My room's fucking tiny, I hate cooking, the assignments are just making me feel more and more stressed and anxious.
Are half the people in this world fucking emotional masochists or something?
A university is four things, primarily:
A) an increase in difficulty,
B) a fresh start in a new place,
C) a change from the people you already know,
D) a step toward true independence.
If you're the kind of person who felt unchallenged in school, didn't like their school environment, disliked a lot of their schoolmates and felt pretty useless overall, university is pretty great to address all these problems. Of course, in university it's far easier to remain alienated from your peers than even in high school - whereas in school you're invariably dragged into whatever business the class tends to plan, university is pretty cool overall with letting you fade into the background and never particularly giving a shit about who you are or what you do until you make a concerted effort to become more useful and interesting to each person individually. So in this way it can be an abject lesson in your own complete insignificance to the world if it doesn't work out as planned.
Rather amusingly, I had a brush with this in particular when I did an exchange semester - most of the attempts to engage me on campus soundly failed, and I didn't actually know the other person who went with me, which meant about four months of overall awkwardness and solitude in a country whose language I most certainly did not speak (I learned firsthand how there's nothing like a period of isolation abroad to make a true patriot of a man, and I legitimately
enjoy solitude). It was very survivable, mind you, but nevertheless very isolating. It could be a similar thing with you, but in this case I advise finding a campus or off-campus thing to regularly go to, and try several places until you find one that makes you reasonably comfortable. You do
not want to be isolated for longer than half a year. I can only imagine how balls that would be.
Can't comment about room size, though. I've always had personal living arrangements of 2 bedrooms for 5 people, so dorm rooms never bothered me. But I've heard of some far shittier dorms in some schools, from slowly-collapsing to bedbug-infested and totalitarian, so I've no doubt a ways to go before I've seen the nadir.