<p>i am giving an option to room with an athlete from the team i will be on, an athlete from another team, or a random student. i do not want to room with someone from my own team because i feel that could cuase friction on the team if there was friction in the room but i am debating between rooming with an athlete vs. not at all. i can see pluses and minuses with both. what would you recommend?</p>
<p>personally, I would room with another athlete. you'll have stuff in common, will probably hang out in the same areas of campus alot, etc. however, if you are worried about being roomed with someone whose sport YOU don't consider a sport, then I would opt for the reg. student (for example, I know a lot of idiotic guys that buy into stereotypes and would rather die than room w/a male cheerleader).</p>
<p>I would be unable to room with a male cheerleader as I would not be able to control my urges to make fun of him endlessly.</p>
<p>it would not be a male cheerleader or anything. i am a female and so it could be anyone from a soccer player to field hockey to lacrose to basketball to tennis to swimming etc</p>
<p>here's a question - are most of your friends now athletes?</p>
<p>most of them are but i also have friends with an array of interests and i like that. i dont want to just hang around the jocks or the singers or the artists.</p>
<p>i think my son will be in the general vicinity of teammates, but i think they will be given other roommates. i think it's a great idea to help integrate students with a variety of interests.</p>
<p>I'm an athlete and I don't room with one. It's fine. But I think rooming with one could be helpful. We get up at 5:30 six days a week, which means no, I'm NOT drinking thursday or friday night, and not having a party in my room after 10 pm would be nice. Other people can understand that but the experience on my team is that many don't, so while an athlete might not have the same practice concerns as you, they'll understand more that yours do exist.</p>
<p>I'm rooming with someone from my team (and next year we're living with 6 other athletes (track team/football team). It makes everything a lot easier, I've already posted on the roommate thread that he's the best roommate ever and it's probably because we have such similar interests.</p>