<p>I'm going to be attending University of Alaska, Southeast. I couldn't wait to attend and meet my new roommates. The problem is when I called housing to inquiry about said roommates, I was given the names of the two who are going to be living in the other bedroom. But when asked about the girl who'd be rooming in my room, I was given the answer that she asked her information not be released... Am I wrong to think that's a little strange???? I was looking forward to talking to her before move in day, but now I have no way to get on contact with her. Then I found out ,when I friended the two other girls, that they were really good friends who obviously requested to room with each other... I'm left in a quandary. Tell me, do you guys think it's strange, my mysterious roomie doesn't want me to know anything about her?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to give my cell number or email out to people I don’t know. If you’re already panicking about this enough to post on here, I can understand her reservations.</p>
<p>…I was a bit harsh, and can’t edit from here. I meant to add that she knows she’ll see you in person, and might not want to give you her contact info until she knows you - then she’ll decide. She might just be overly cautious, or might not want people to contact her often (the impression your post initially gave me was that you might do this, and I apologize).</p>
<p>My housing form it had an option to give out my information to my roommate. It was a little box that you had to check, and I almost looked over it. That could be why your roommate didn’t give out her information.</p>
<p>BTW, it isn’t that strange that she opted out of giving away her information. It might have been that she overlooked that option. You never know.</p>
<p>All I wanted to do was look her up on facebook… not call or email. Also it seems to be common that roommates go over who’s bringing what. The college doesn’t release phone numbers or email, just their name (not where they live or how old they are) nothing more and it is stated when you do the roommate questionaire. I’m a very open person and find strange when a person doesn’t even want me to know their name. I’m sorry if its wrong to want to know who your roommates going to be…</p>
<p>This might sound bizarre to you, but there was a time when Facebook and email didn’t exist and no one knew their roommate until they showed up on campus. And from what I’ve read here, some colleges still do it that way. Somehow it all works out.</p>
<p>There are any number of reasons your roommate didn’t allow her name to go public-as others have suggested, she missed the check box, or maybe she’s got concerned parents who don’t want her being stalked, or maybe she doesn’t even HAVE Facebook. </p>
<p>Yours is at least the third post by someone freaking out about not being able to reach a future roommate. I have the same advice for you-let it go. If learning her name on the first day of school is your biggest problem, you’ve doing pretty well for yourself.</p>
<p>I’ve seen the others posts. Unlike them, I haven’t got the means to contact my roommate. And I’m not ‘freaking’ out, I’m just bummed I have to wait till move-in day to meet this person.</p>
<p>Personally, I felt uncomfortable when I was contacted by my roommate. I didn’t like that my contact info was given out so readily - even just my name, as it’s a bit weird to be looked up by someone you don’t know on facebook. And I agree with sseamom, it certainly looked like you were freaking out by how you typed your post up, even if you weren’t. I would be uncomfortable giving my information out to someone who NEEDED TO KNOW ME RIGHT NOW and looked up all my info online, instead of waiting to meet me in person and getting to know me then. </p>
<p>You said yourself you wanted to look her up on facebook, which can easily be MORE invasive than getting a phone call or email. If you found her on there and she missed a privacy setting or two, you could easily find her phone number, email, age, and location, along with many other things she might not be comfortable sharing with a complete stranger.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m just feeling old. But it’s unsettling the things you can find out nowadays with “just a name.”</p>
<p>It just comes down to the fact, in this day and age your Info’s out there. I’m a freshman, excited to meet my new roommate, sorry if it comes across as I’m freaking out. It just peeves m</p>
<p>I didn’t release my contact info to my roommate either. I’m excited to meet her, but I’d rather make my first impression in person instead of online. I don’t know if we’re going to be best friends or if we’re going to be distant and because of that, I don’t want to hand out my info to someone I’ve never met. Just relax and keep an open mind when you finally do meet her. I’m sure everything will be fine.</p>
<p>You’ll meet your roommate soon enough. Get over it, it’s not even close to being a big deal.</p>
<p>stop worrying, you will be fine</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want my room mate looking me up on facebook. Makes things weird and awkward. My second room mate did that and contacted me…
Wouldn’t want them calling me either. First room mate did that, and my first question was how did you get this number? Forgot I must have filled it out on the housing application… conversation was awkward and whatnot.
You’ll get to know them when you meet them.
And generally it doesn’t matter who brings what unless you have some large items or something. I know at our school there are some rules… like one fridge per dorm or whatever, but I bring one no matter what… even if my roomie brings one.</p>