<p>My son does not want to use facebook for roomate. He feels he may do better just chancing it with housing. They seemed to only ask 2 questions. Do most freshman use facebook to get their roomate? Is anyone else not using facebook?</p>
<p>my son is still busy up to his eyeballs…while he has looked at Vandy Facebook 2013…he has not posted his ID there yet…maybe this coming week…we have spent the last two weeks at Duke’s Graduation and at VA Tech’s Graduation and now we seem to have end of year events pretty much daily! I have no idea what he will do on this question, and I am also curious about how many students will let Vandy figure it out. I sort of wish they were doing it the old-fashioned way…Duke son was a freshman when Facebook was “new”…and his class simply went to their assigned roommates, no questions asked…and he is still tight with his freshman friends and hall.
Davidson gives students Meyers Briggs and works really hard at matching…although I am not sure what method one can ever take on…</p>
<p>My son did use the facebook group and it seems to have worked out just fine. At first he joked that it was kind of awkward but, he found humor in it. He found a roommate fairly quickly so hopefully it works out. I think its a good thing because they can communicate fairly regulary before they actually “meet” each other. I would imagine it will make the transition easier. We shall see!</p>
<p>I posted my answer to few questions to the “roommate” thread in Facebook, but frankly, I feel like it will be better to just be assigned a roommate randomly. Personally, I did not find the questionnare we are using in the facebook group to find a roomate too helpful at all.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is the questionnaire that helps but simply the fact that you have the opportunity to talk with a lot of people. By communicating with them beforehand, you can find out better whether you would fit as roommates.</p>
<p>Thanks for replys. I will see if he is willing to feel out facebook again. I think he got turned off initially for some reason back when he was admitted ED.</p>
<p>Mainly he wants a roomate to be fun and social but not a wild partier. It is hard to communicate this in two questions: Do you use your room to study or socialize and what time do you go to bed on weeknights. Oh and I think the other question was can you study with some noise in background. Oh well he will just have to roll the dice.</p>
<p>mostly girls use facebook to find roomies. as a freshman last year, about 1/3 of my hall had picked their roommates based on facebook. i can tell you that those selections did not work out very well because people tend to portray themselves differently online than they are in person. in fact, two of the girls had such a terrible time together, one requested to move out of our dorm (and she did). for the most part, people tolerated their roommates. some were instant BFFs, some never spoke to their roomies at all, and some were friendly with their roomies, but not really close. idk, don’t worry about it. things usually work out okay with random. i was terrified, but it turned out pretty well for me.</p>
<p>I’ll be going to Vandy next year as a Freshman. I had considered using Facebook to find a roommate, even posted my info in the guys roommate thread. In the end, however, I went with Vandy randomly assigning me somebody. I think it’ll make things more interesting.</p>
<p>Enigma52809,
I agree that it will make things more interesting, as long as enough people do it, it could work out just fine. hope it goes well for you and my son! He does not seem to be stressed about it so I will stay out of it.</p>
<p>I’ll make mine random too</p>
<p>my son is leaning toward random assignment…mainly because he is still busy in events in HS daily…and has been dragged around to college weekends for bro and relatives lately…and the deadline approacheth.</p>
<p>He may put up the questionaire deal on Facebook, he says…if time permits. His workload and schedule seriously lightens up in about a week…but past the Vandy deadline</p>
<p>Glad to hear others are chancing it. I heard alot do. My son has been busy also and just not thinking about it. He is now in Hawaii on a senior project and not back until June 2nd, tough life!! Hope all you seniors enjoy your end of year and enjoy the moment!</p>
<p>sorry to bring this question up again but I was wondering how do they match up roomies when they dont have a list of question to ask us when we sign up or register for housing.
do anyone know if they did ask questions when we’re registering, what the questions were?</p>
<p>there were three questions…I can’t remember…my son said…to me…I never saw them.
“do you go to bed before midnight or after midnight” was one I think (we didn’t think that question was well-stated). “do you like to play music when studying or to have quiet” was another. that is all I can remember…my son is working a job and not around to ask.</p>
<p>Alert: Unaffiliated with Vandy…</p>
<p>Agree with starrynight: last year, when my daughter was accepted RD and was deciding whether or not to attend Vanderbilt, she started interacting with many females on Facebook in the incoming class of 2012; was so turned off by the kids, she chose another school…</p>
<p>moral of the story: be careful about depending on Facebook…especially for making decisions about roommates; random may be the better move.</p>
<p>Facebook is all well and good but I agree you have to be careful. People can put up a front very easily through the net and might turn out worse than if you go with the luck of the draw. I think Facebook is good to talk to people and make friends before school starts but not necessarily for find a roommate. That’s my two cents.</p>
<p>I just sign on to the online applications for housing to check if they did ask me any questions and It didn’t, Is that weird? they only ask my preferences for rooms ie: single or/ double.</p>
<p>The three questions Vanderbilt asks are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you usually sleep before or after noon</li>
<li>Do you prefer to study in your room, or do you see it as a socializing place</li>
<li>Do you listen to music in the room</li>
</ul>
<p>While the last one seems a bit of random, I’m pretty sure these were the questions. The phrasing is not exact though.</p>
<p>When do we know who our roommate will be
which dorm we will be in
and all the information we need to do dorm shopping like bedding and stuff since macy’s having a good sale now =]</p>