<p>Does your school provide like a questionnaire to help you pick, find roommates if you like to room with?</p>
<p>Supposedly I matched up well with someone else (like we had everything in common) and he wanted to room up with me. That didn't happen though as he was crazy.</p>
<p>He was explaining to me the things that we could and can't do and one of the things that he said bugged him was having Tv. He said there could absolutely not be any Tv as that would distract him from studies.......I said that he should live a little. </p>
<p>That was that.</p>
<p>Anyone else have a case of [extreme] roommates (experienced it in the past semester or something) or been recently contacted by someone trying to get you to room in with them....as they think you're as devoted to your studies as they are?</p>
<p>=D I’m laughing because I was one of those people who didn’t want a TV. In my questionnaire, I took ample use of my “About Me” section, writing multiple paragraphs about me. Surprisingly, about 3-4 people contacted me asking if I’d consider being their roommate. I sent a few emails back and forth… and the roommate I eventually chose also didn’t want a TV. Hopefully, we will get along well. </p>
<p>My school had a roommate finder application with a short questionnaire (do you wake up early or late? Do you study in the library, quietly in your room, or with music in your room? etc) and then an “About Me” section that allowed me to ramble on about myself. I am pretty devoted to my studies (but then again, I just don’t like TV much and I can watch all I really want to watch online or in a lounge), so I can’t really answer your question that well… haha. Sorry if this isn’t what you wanted to hear!</p>
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<li>Do you smoke?</li>
<li>Do you object to a roommate who smokes?</li>
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<p>And the **** thing is, I’ll get stuck with the kid who either picked up smoking in the year since filling out the application, or the kid who filled it out with his parents and didn’t want them to know he smoked.</p>
<p>I really prefer a random roommate over trying to find one based on interests. At least if he’s the worst person I’ve ever met, I can’t blame myself! I’m sure it’ll be fine, though. There’s very few things I’d have a problem living with (though smoking is one of them…).</p>
Do you prefer to live in a alcohol free dorm? (even though technically dorms are supposed to be alcohol free for all under 21)
Do you prefer to live in smoke-free housing? (although all dorms are now supposed to be smoke-free)
Do you prefer to live in quiet housing? Even though quiet housing isn’t really quiet.</p>
<p>So essentially my roommate situation was completely random. No idea who I was going to end up with. Luckily I was one of those people who were extremely fortunate to have a fantastic roommate, who I got along great with. </p>
<p>I remember when I first joined my school’s fb group, I did that roommate survey thing and a couple people messaged me to probe if we were compatible. Honestly though I didn’t feel like choosing a roommate over fb and thought that just going in blind would work out better (it did).</p>
<p>Yeah, all we had were questions about smoking/substance free rooms. One of our forms was doing a pilot questionaire this year, but I’m not in that one and probably wouldn’t have filled it out anyway</p>
<p>Wow, I’m surprised you guys have little or no questionnaires at all. My questionnaire was like 12 questions ranging from whether I get up early in the morning, go to bed late at night, hold an importance for music, smoking, drinking, even whether I view myself as outgoing and whether I like to study or not, etc.</p>
<p>We had a questionnaire that had questions about smoking, being messy or clean, when you like to go to bed and get up, if you like quiet when you study and other stuff like that. Also, on our FB group there was a really long survey so people could find possible roommates. I didn’t have to deal with that because I decided I was gonna room with my friend as soon as we both had decided on our school.</p>
<p>D1’s school had a questionnaire like that, but she ended up totally mismatched with her freshman roommate. D2’s school has a different questionnaire; we’ll see if she has better luck this fall!</p>
<p>Nope. Nada. There’s a little space where we can state anything we’re strongly against/for, and we can request sub-free housing, but other than that, totally random. And it worked out well for me. :)</p>