<p>How do people connect to find roommates, housing, carpooling/rides, etc? My current college has Facebook pages for each but I cannot for the life of me find them for Penn. I've been using <a href="http://offcampushousing.upenn.edu/">http://offcampushousing.upenn.edu/</a> but less than 80 people have signed up to find roommates-- what is everybody else doing? </p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>hashtag someonebemyroommate</p>
<p>You can try Facebook, but most Penn fb groups require you to register a upenn.edu email to your Fb account before you can join them.</p>
<p>You can always ask on the FB page. Also during the summer there’s always that one girl or guy who makes a separate FB group so that other girls/guys can find roommates and request each other when rooming selection opens.</p>
<p>I have a Penn email so that’s not a problem. There’s really no facebook page for it? I guess my college did it differently but I don’t understand how 21,000 people all find someone to live with just through word of mouth.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people just take the randomly assigned roommate. If you are a transfer student, it might be a little different since a lot of people move out of the dorms after freshman year. Do you want to live on campus?</p>
<p>ETA: It looks like you are a grad student? Which school are you in? A lot of grad students find housing through craigs list or a local realtor. They have accepted student pages on fb where you can ask about roommates. I guess if you tell us your specifics we can help you better.</p>
<p>You’re right, my post was really vague! I’ll be an incoming student to the grad school of education. Supposedly there is a facebook page for admitted students but I cannot seem to find that either. I’d like to live off campus but I guess it doesn’t matter. I guess I’ll look in outside places.</p>
<p>I’m actually more concerned about carpool groups- does anything like that, or a ride share, exist? Maybe even one for the general Philly area?</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions :)</p>
<p>How far off campus are you looking. There is a subway system you can use if you are close to campus. Trains from outside the city that connect to the subway. Driving (even carpooling) is a general waste of time and money. There is lots of traffic and little parking, none of it cheap. But it can be done.</p>
<p>I meant more carpooling for ride homes on breaks or weekend rides. It didn’t really occur to me that in an urban school a lot of people won’t have cars but it seems pretty obvious now haha.</p>
<p>Sorry if my previous reply wasn’t really helpful. I didn’t know that you were looking for off-campus housing options for grad school. I’m currently an undergrad student and most people had randomly assigned roommates or found roommates through various FB groups that popped up.</p>
<p>For carpooling: <a href=“Reducing Emissions | Penn Sustainability”>http://www.upenn.edu/sustainability/sustainability-themes/reducing-emissions</a>
For roommates/off campus housing: <a href=“http://offcampushousing.upenn.edu”>http://offcampushousing.upenn.edu</a></p>
<p>Generally students here don’t own cars unless you live in a house that offers parking. Parking in Philadelphia and on campus is extremely expensive and public transit is very efficient and affordable. Zipcar is a great service you can look into!</p>