<p>I'm going through the roommate search process right now and I'm having a hard time picking a roommate. How important is the person you room with? You're obviously gonna be friends but how does this affect college life? Does everyone in your hall just end up becoming friends? Or should I get a roommate who's more similar to me?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Sigh. Freshmen and their assumptions.</p>
<p>LOL @ “you’re obviously gonna be friends…” Umm, not necccesarily. I had 4 roommates my freshman year and did not become friends with any of them. Another user here, RoxSox, wasn’t friends with her roommate either. Just because you’re living together doesn’t mean you’re going to be friends. It’s nice to be optimistic, but realistically, you may end up not clicking/befriending you’re roommate. </p>
<p>You’re never gonna really know. Of course everyone is going to make themselves seem flawless to attract other roommates, but it’s only weeks into college when your roommates show their true colors. </p>
<p>And yeah, I would generally say that floors click.</p>
<p>Not that important. Most people I know get along with their roommates, but usually their best friends are elsewhere.</p>
<p>Lol at Stratusfaction. You got that right.
Freshman year I had a potluck roomie. Sure, everything was peachy keen the first couple weeks, but after that, it just went downhill. We weren’t really compatible, she stayed up wayyy later than her application said, didn’t respect my boundaries, but then again, I wasn’t really standing up for myself. She eventually moved out to live with her sorority sisters, leaving me with a beautiful, spacious room all to myself. I got along with my suitemates, but not enough to become good friends with them.
Although! I made some awesome friends on my floor and throughout my dorm, and even found a future roomie for next year down the hall. And outside the dorm. Don’t forget there’s a big ol’ world out there too. Don’t worry. If you don’t click with your roomie, it’ll be ok. You’ll find other friends, maybe even have a roomie switch. And if you have a roomie that turns out to be your bffl, more power to you.</p>
<p>My roommate and I were not friends this past year. We spoke maybe a couple of times a month and had a total of two actual conversations all year. You should try to get along with your roommate, but don’t go crazy trying to find <em>THE</em> right person because chances are you won’t really become great friends anyway.</p>
<p>I go to a boarding high school and I would definately say the roomate matters. He/She can make the difference between a crappy and awesome school year. Being friends with a person is one thing but once you have to live with them… well that’s a different ball game.</p>
<p>Hey everyone a question.
I have allergies and so I have had humidifiers and air cleaners my entire life in my room on while I sleep. They make a noise, one a little louder than an AC. However, I don’t need these things to get a good nights sleep. My Doctor said that he could write me a medical note that could excuse me to have a solo dorm due to allergies and because these humidifiers and aircleaners might not let the person next to me sleep. I know this is dishonest, but If I want a solo I can have one, and if I want a roomate I could also have one. What do you think are the Pros and Cons of having a roomate/Solo?</p>
<p>I initially did not like myy roommate as he was three years older than me and actually smoked pot in the room and almost got me in trouble. However, by the end of the semester I really liked him and find myself missingn him lol</p>
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<p>I had two roommates freshman year. One is one of my best friends now, and the other we just kind of lived with. It’s not that important to be friends with your roommate, but it is important to get along and be civil. The one roommate I wasn’t close with was still a good roommate. Although we weren’t friends, she was still nice and I didn’t mind being in the room with her. Don’t go in expecting to be friends because in all likelihood, it probably won’t happen.</p>
<p>My roommate became my closest friend at college, and he was 2 years older than me (put still a freshman because of moving from Korea to Ethiopia and international school). We are rooming together in a campus apartment this year, have the same major, and are taking a few classes together. Next next year we are gonna try to get a house with some other guys, but we’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>The other two guys we shared a room with were on my soccer team and other IM teams and we were pretty good friends to. I definitely got lucky.</p>
<p>Aww, Stratusfaction, do I really complain about my roommate THAT much??? :D</p>
<p>I just like to give the possibly unpopular view that you may not be friends with your roommate. Freshmen think that it’s this huge thing and you have to be BFF forever (especially girls!) You just have to coexist. Some floors really bond, some don’t. Your floor might bond without you, and you might find a social group outside your dorm. I never talked to anyone on my floor, and I actually bonded with a different floor and am living with most of them off-campus next year.</p>
<p>I would get a random roommate and not stress about it. It is not an important thing. I had two roommates, one was obnoxious and one I never spoke to. I still had an amazing college experience. It’s really not an important thing. If you really clash it can be a major pain but if it’s extreme (for example my roommate was suicidal) you can usually get a room change.</p>
<p>I don’t think roommates (freshman year roommates, anyway) are that important.</p>
<p>I was randomly assigned a roommate this year, and it wasn’t a good match. In fact, I absolutely can’t stand her. We’re very incompatible, plus she’s just an unpleasant person! However, she and I have been fine living together. No big issues. You definitely don’t have to be best friends with your roommate, though it will seem that way for the first few weeks of school. I made a bunch of other amazing friends in my dorm and just hang out with them a lot. You’ll probably be fine.</p>
<p>Don’t stress about a roommate too much. It’s unlikely that you’ll be best friends, but you probably won’t be worst enemies either. As long as you can coexist peacefully, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Unless he or she shares the same major or in most of your classes, probably not.</p>
<p>Haven’t had a roommate in two years, but he really wasn’t too important. He was actually pretty annoying because he would always talk on his phone at around midnight with one leg in the air talking to one of his female friends, gossipping about other females he knew.</p>
<p>Apartment style dorms are the way to go. I had three roommates and we got along great. I’d say that is in large part due to the fact that we had our own rooms and plenty of space in our living room. I never really hung out with them, though we are all on good terms.</p>
<p>Loved both of my roommates this year (freshman, random), rooming with one again, and living with the other and 5 other guys from our floor next year. Was a few months in to the year before we really clicked and became good friends.</p>
<p>They’re both important and not important. </p>
<p>Important in the sense that you want your roommate to be someone you get along with. It would be horrible to be in the room ever if all you guys do is argue and fight.</p>
<p>Then again, they also aren’t important in that you only have to be around them as much as you want. You can meet other people and never be with your roommate except for sleeping, or you can really bond with them and spend a lot of time together, whether with other people or not.</p>
<p>this makes me slightly sad that most roommate situations don’t work out super great. I really want to be close friends with my roommate so what kind of person should i look for? should i just go with someone exactly like me? or just someone who’s supersuper chill</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a lot you can really do, it’s mostly just luck of the draw. Someone who seems chill or like you might not really be, and people change over the course of a year. It’s basically a crap shoot however you slice it.</p>