<p>I'm starting the process of roommates. </p>
<p>I was wondering, other than the obvious best friend advice, what tips would you say when it comes to choosing your roommate? Is it bad to have someone who is similar to you in many ways? Or is it better to choose someone who's your opposite? Do you look for a friend or a pleasant living companion?</p>
<p>Horror Stories? Positive Stories? Or, would you just say let the college choose them? </p>
<p>Advice needed. Please, I need it.</p>
<h1>1 find a rooomate who is laid back and is very similar to you</h1>
<h1>2 find a roommate who is laid back and is a little bit different than you</h1>
<h1>3 find a rommate who is complete opposite of you</h1>
<p>its one thing to be around people who are different and expand your horizons.. its another thing to live with someone who is far different than you.</p>
<p>My friend from high school and I are going to be roommates next year, which should be interesting. She's a stoner who likes to go to parties and has openly told me how she's going to "embrace the hippie lifestyle" next year.</p>
<p>But though we're very different at first glance, we're both academically driven and have deeper similar interests, like community service and travel.</p>
<p>It'll work out since we're not best friends and we also have different social circles, so we won't have to see each other all the time.</p>
<p>I know I definitely wouldn't want to let my college choose my roommate; I've heard horror stories of people getting really weird roommates (I once heard that "one roommate is always the weird one. If your roommate's not weird, then it's probably you"). Try meeting people on Facebook or some other means before you actually commit to letting the college choose for you.</p>
<p>The most important thing is to room with someone who has similiar ideas about how you're going to use the room - after that being able to share a room peacefully, similar personality is just an unnecessary plus.</p>
<p>Things like morning person vs. night person / studies with loud music / watches tv a lot or before going to sleep / people allowed to sleep over (how often) / etc are all very important.</p>
<p>i feel like ive typed this story a million times but here it goes again..</p>
<p>due to my intense fear of getting someone weird (both my older brothers had bad luck with random people) i joined one of those message boards on facebook wto try and find a roommate at the beginning of this year. i talked to this one girl a couple of times on aim and we seemed like a good match. </p>
<p>beginning of the year was cool.. we hung out together, had the same group of friends in our hall and it was great. then as we settled in it turns out she was almost nothing like i expected. she wasnt really socially awkward in the traditional way but always said/did weird and obnoxious things when we were hanging out. then i discovered she got drunk after having one drink (over the usmmer i think i remember tlaking about drinking and how i love pong blah blah like to drink and have a good time on weekends) she became incredibly annoying. just like omg omg omg omg look look hahahahah isnt that sooooo funny. then after a while she stopped wanting to come out and used to go back to our room at like 11pm on weekends. that was like middle/end of october.</p>
<p>by the end of the month she was never coming out and it came to the point where we really never talked to eachother. when i tried to start conversations she just let it die and spend 24/7 on AIM typing furiously to her friends back home. summer she said she went to bed at like 1-2.. in reality went to bed at 11 which did NOT work for me. had no consideration to be quiet in the morning when i was sleeping and would frequently take out the trash and bang her drawers while getting ready.</p>
<p>she transferred at the end of the sememster.. i was feeling bad like it was my fault for not inviting her out more/being friendlier or whatever. but then my friends reminded me i did and i really had no reason to feel that way becuse i complained all the time about her and wouldnt really miss anything with her not there. still it must stink to have that bad of a semester to transfer, she said she had too many family things going on to stay in boston.</p>
<p>ANYWAY.. this semester i got a new roommate coming from another campus out of a forced triple. we get along GREAT and i consider her one of my clsoe firends. we have so much more in common with eachother and can relate much more than me and my first roommate ever did.</p>
<p>moral of the story.. go in random. i wish i had</p>
<p>Yeah, at UMiami everything is done random.. they tried the whole roommate matching and said it was actually a disaster. They said there were more problem when they tried to match them by questions then just going random.</p>
<p>Son is supposed to choose a dorm room tomorrow morning and can look on line at the possible roommates and their responses to questions. He really hasn't spent any time looking it over but I have. I'm stressing about this. I really hope he ends up getting good roommates but it looks like it will be whoever else chooses whatever room he does.</p>
<p>I think you should flip a coin, not that it will do you any good, but if you do it enough times you might get good enough at it to be able to predict heads or tails on your tosses so you can make offers to your roommate on the flip of a coin and cheat him/her out of things by always flipping the coin so you win.....</p>