<p>So, I completed my housing app like months ago, and I’m wondering when we get to know what DC we got? Is it in august like the roommate assignment? Also, when I was filling out the app, I noticed there were no questions regarding the kind of roommate you want, and I thought that was weird. The only thing there was was the option for a living learning community, so yea, why was that ?</p>
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<p>UC Davis just doesn’t do roommate questionnaires. They want you to meet different kinds of people, and during the first two weeks or so, your RA will most likely have sign-ups to make an appointment to sit down with said RA and your roommate/suitemates (if you get put in Cuarto, you will have suitemates along with a roommate) and agree on what is allowed/not allowed. The sign-ups thing is what my RA did, but I don’t know about other RA’s. By DC, do you mean your meal plan? Yes, you will find that out the same day that you find out your rooming assignment–you should find out on August 31st at the latest. That was when I found out my rooming assignment when I first came to Davis.</p>
<p>Really? I find that hard to believe, because what if your stuck with a roommate that’s the opposite of you…? Also, what I meant was, do you get to know if you got into like Segundo, tercero, or cuarto in the late summer, like when you know Ur roommate assignment, or do you get it earlier?</p>
<p>You find out the same day you get your roommate assignment. It’s all on one page. When you get your housing assignment, you will see a gray table that has your dorm’s mailing address, the kind of meal plan you chose to get, the living learning community you’re in (if you indicated that you wanted to live in a living learning community), whether you’re in a single, double, or triple, whether you’re in a suite or not (if you’re in Cuarto, you get a suite arrangement), and then at the bottom, you get the name(s) of your roommate/possibly suitemates. If you get placed in Cuarto, an advantage is that because each suite has its own common area, if you go to sleep earlier than your assigned roommate, you can kick your roommate out to the common area of your suite. If you get into Segundo or Tercero, you don’t get this benefit, but the trade-off is that it’s easier to connect with your floormates in Segundo or Tercero (it’s harder to make friends in Cuarto because people usually tend to become friends with just their roommate/suitemates). </p>
<p>And I had a roommate who was the complete opposite of me (she was very extroverted and into partying; I’m introverted and not that interested into partying, though I occasionally will go to a party if I’m invited), and we managed to make it work (she left after the first quarter because she became extremely ill, and didn’t come back until the next year). For example, she used to come back at 4am on most weekends drunk, but she tried her hardest to be as quiet as possible in getting ready for bed without waking me up. And I don’t know why you find it hard to believe that UCD doesn’t do roommate questionnaires. They never have.</p>
<p>It’s true, they do not have a roommate matching program. From what I can gather, those don’t work particularly well at other schools. Everyone says they’re perfectly clean, quiet, and always go to bed by midnight.</p>
<p>Yeah, there’s no roommate matching, as sopranokitty and JeSuis have said. Case in point: One of my roommates is my exact opposite in almost any way imaginable, while the other is fairly similar to me. My suitemates are a decent mix of personality types, as well (I live in Cuarto).</p>
<p>I have a similar experience to sopranokitty as far as the roommate that’s the opposite of me. The key is to communicate and respect each other, no matter how you and your roommate(s) match up.</p>