<p>Has anyone looked at/done the online housing application yet? My daughter is going to be on a sports team and would like to live with a teammate (not a specific one necessarily) but she isn't sure how to indicate this on the application. Does anyone have experience with this? </p>
<p>She was told she didn't have to room with someone from the team but she could request it if she wanted - and she does want to.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>After you submit the housing deposit, there will be a survey available. And in that survey, there is place to ask for a roommate. You will need the other persons NEU id.</p>
<p>Thanks, we did submit the deposit already and she looked at the application. She saw that it said, are you going to play a sport, but she just wanted to indicate that she would like to room with a teammate - she doesn’t have a specific girl lined up, so she won’t have NEU id for someone else. But I’ll let her know that and have her look more closely at the application. I haven’t seen it myself.</p>
<p>I seem to recall the “are you going to play a sport” question was more for personality matching, not a particular roommate selection.</p>
<p>neuchimie, that’s what she was thinking. So she hasn’t done anything yet, she’s trying to figure out the way she’s supposed to go about it.</p>
<p>I’m not sure there’s a way to request to be placed with someone on the team without requesting a specific person… you’ll probably have to call housing and ask.</p>
<p>I don’t know that rooming with a teammate is really the best idea… I played a sport and you see these people all the time. Your teammates become some of your closest friends, you practice with them, travel with them, and party with them, you are with them for dozens of hours a week, and sometimes you need a break from that. It’s really nice to come home from long weekends and just hang out with your roommate in your own space. Also, it’s nice to have some independence from the people you live with. Living with someone on your team means you will never get away from them, and as close as you are with your teammates, it’s also nice to branch out a bit and have other people in your life. I never lived with teammates for this reason, and teammates who did live together usually echo this. But, I do know a select few friends who pulled it off and stayed sane living together, so if your daughter is set on it, give it a shot… but definitely think it through.</p>
<p>And then think of what will happen if you start having fights because of roommate issues and it creates really bad tension while you’re practicing or playing…</p>
<p>Thanks for the thoughts, I’ll mention them to her as well. I guess she is set on it because she feels like they have the same schedule, early mornings could be common and what if she gets a roommate who stays up all night, when she has to be up the next morning for something to do with the team? I understand all the concerns, but she does seem pretty set on it. When she visited and stayed with team members, they all lived with one another and seemed to sync really well. This was the case not only at Northeastern, but at the three other schools she visited for weekend trips. I’m sure there are pros and cons to both. Certainly no situation would be worse than rooming with a teammate and having things go bad, it’s true.</p>
<p>Do you have to complete the survey for an “ideal” roommate right after the housing deposit, or are you allowed to put it off until later?</p>
<p>@ejohnson, you can choose to put it off until later</p>
<p>Yeah, I wanted to pay the deposit, but one of my friends that I was going to room with got deferred. He definitely will be accepted, at least, he should be, and I was hoping I could pay the deposit but not be roomed with a random person. This possible?</p>