<p>I am having trouble deciding who to room with as a Junior.(I transferred sophomore year to my new school) As a sophomore, I got stuck with an extremely werid roommate, I mean I didn't have any problems with my roommate, just the fact that we had extremely opposite interests. I did however make some friends with the kids on floor. Some of the kids on my floor that asked me to room with them next year rented a house 20 minutes off campus. I however, don't want to go that far away from campus, its a 20 minute car ride to campus for class. My only other housing option is getting a single or rooming with a random roommate next year. I don't know how getting a single will be(I hear it can get pretty lonely in a single room). Are kids who sign up for random roommates considered losers/werid? I don't want to get an extremely werid roommate who is also a loser next year(the type that sits in the room all day and does absolutely nothing). I did make some friends in my classes, but only a couple(the classes here so big, around 300 kids in a class).</p>
<p>I am not going to lie, I pretty much killed my social life my sophomore year (which explains why I have few people to room with next year). As an engineering major, I had to constantly study to make good grades, which means I rarely got out to meet new people.</p>
<p>Nobody is going to know you signed up with a random roommate, except your roommate who will have done the same thing.</p>
<p>Even if I had friends to room with next year, my senior year, I would probably still just get a single. I am tired of being accountable to someone else ALL the time. My friends all live in apartments and co-ops and I was invited to move with them, but I don’t want to share a bedroom anymore.</p>
<p>Anyone want to help me? I don’t know what to do. I am comtemplating living with the people who asked me to, in a rented house, because I don’t want to be lonely as a junior. (most of my friends lived on my floor).</p>
<p>Will I be able to make friends junior year on my floor, or do sophomore’s interact differently from juniors?</p>
<p>The kids who invited me to room with them, arently really my type of friends, I kind of hung out with them, just because I didn’t have anyone else to chill with. (I am a transfer student).</p>
<p>I guess my problem stems from the fact that I have few friends, as an engineering major, I have to work EXTREMELY hard to keep my grades up.</p>
<p>wait i thought it was normal to choose a random roommate? (im not in college yet). do most ‘normal’ people choose their roommates? and are most people who choose randomly, weird?</p>
<p>ilikeUW, most freshmen don’t choose their roommates. The average student, by Junior year (as the OP is) should know a few people they might get along with well enough to room with.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about rooming with a random roommate your junior year. Usually, there are a lot of incoming new junior transfers coming onto campus in the fall. </p>
<p>Re: “Will I be able to make friends junior year on my floor, or do sophomore’s interact differently from juniors?”
^It’s not like high school where you tend to stick with people in your grade level. Most college students choose to socialize with people based on interests and personalities rather than by grade level.</p>