<p>I emailed my number to my roommate 2 weeks ago and I have not received a text. I do understand she might be busy ir or on vacation. We have 6 weeks until move in. I just wanna know are these good reason to change roommate.</p>
<p>No, not a good reason. </p>
<p>Yeah, no. I didn’t talk to my roommates until like 2 weeks before moving in my freshman year.</p>
<p>no.</p>
<p>No. My son had two roommates. One didn’t respond back for over a month, and then only briefly! It all worked out. </p>
<p>No. Your roommate might be overseas for the summer, working as a camp counselor with no email access, not have internet access at home and have to go to the library for it or something. One of my kids never heard back from her roommate, and the roommate ended up not attending the college. But YOU don’t do anything about that, the housing office will if something needs to be done. You don’t really need to even communicate with your roommate before move-in day. Bring your own linens, towels, computer, etc. You can sort out other stuff later. If your parents are driving you, they can put some stuff in the car that you can decide about when you get there. If you are flying, you won’t take much extra stuff anyway, so what is there to coordinate?</p>
<p>^^^@intparent: who’s bringing the refrigerator and who the fan? who the flat screen and who the iron? Come on, @intparent, these students are trying to build a nest. We should be encouraging them (so that they don’t have any desire to move home after they graduate) 8-> </p>
<p>My kids both came from really far away and brought none of those things. We didn’t meet our roommates until the first day of college and somehow we survived. And whose basement do you think this stuff will end up in after college anyway? Just saying the OP is being ridiculous. There are any number of good reasons why a roommate might not have responded. Jumping to the conclusion that one ought find a different roommate because they didn’t respond to a mid-summer email is awfully self centered of the OP.</p>
<p>I agree with you. The student can rest easy. The roommate situation is quite likely to work good enough, if not well. The schools are pretty good at finding matches from the questionnaires the students fill out.</p>
<p>It’s time to grow a thicker skin. What in the world have you read into no reply that you would want to switch roommates? I am thinking your future roommate is going to be really sorry if you don’t. Wonder what will happen if she forgets to say hi or bye one day or doesn’t want to have matching bedspreads or something. This is funny.</p>
<p>I dunno, BP. I can see a 17yo me having this thought, but it never would have reached the ears of strangers the way it does today. That we now look to the internet for our sounding boards is still kind of peculiar to me. Maybe to others my age, too.</p>
<p>Just wait it out and message them about three weeks before move-in. They’re probably just busy. </p>
<p>Lol, no not a good reason.</p>
<p>As someone who lives overseas in the summers (and uses a different SIM card/number) they may have other factors limiting their connectivity,etc</p>
<p>That’s not enough of a reason to change roommates. She could be busy, she could have broken her phone, she might have controlling parents that won’t let her text, bad phone plan, too shy to contact you, etc. </p>