<p>I'm going to be at manzanita next year and I'm wondering do you get to pick if you can have an international roomate. what are the questions they ask you for a roomate?</p>
<p>I filled out my housing application a couple of days ago and I was sad to see that it was not very detailed..It asked you to rank your residence halls from first preference to last, and asked if you wanted any specific floor (scholors, quiet, etc) and then it had a lot of YES NO or NO PREFERENCE questions such as...</p>
<p>I am a Smoker.
I intend to use my room primarily for studying, not socializing.
Overnight guests are unacceptable.
I will have visitors often.
I usually go to bed before 11 pm.
I usually get up before 9 am.<br>
I like to keep a clean room.
I hope that my roommate(s) and I will become good friends.
I intend to be involved in my residential community.
I prefer a substance-free lifestyle.
I would like to have a TV in my room.
I play music (without headphones) when I study in my room. </p>
<p>I do not think you can "pick" an international roomate unless you have someone spefic in mind and know their Perm number so you can enter it in to your application, but I know there is a floor that is connected to multi-cultural things so you could consider that. Hope I helped</p>
<p>Hey Gaucho8, do you know if your answers are usually the same as your roommates, or do you sometimes end up with the complete opposite?</p>
<p>do all ur preference has to be the same as ur "wanted" roomate or i just need his perm number and he needs my perm number</p>
<p>I don't think it matters either way (to the question above)</p>
<p>To baumb, me and my roommate had the same answers, but we couldn't be more incompatible, so don't necessarily think if someone has the same responses as you, that it'll be a good match.</p>
<p>so if you really don't like your roomate or just don't get along is it easy to change or is it just a hassle?</p>
<p>It's a hassle. You can't just switch roommates like that. My girlfriend had to stay with her roommate for 2 quarters before they moved her. Another friend of mine got in a serious verbal fight and nearly physical fight before they moved her.</p>
<p>It's a big hassle... I've been trying to move out of my house in Manzanita since end of Fall quarter uncessfully. It took me about 6 meetings (the last of which was at the end of spring quarter) with the RD before they finally gave me the school master list of open rooms, which revealed plenty of open rooms, which I'm now looking into in. In reality, there are always plenty of open rooms (my master list has over 20 available spots in male doubes), but the RDs purposely try to make it seem like there's no space available.</p>
<p>20 open spaces in spring doesn't mean "there are always plenty of open rooms." I would imagine fall availability looks very different than spring hence the reason they won't let you change for 2 quarters. I'm just guessing though...</p>
<p>I have no idea if they match you with the person who fills out the same exact answers as you... Seriously I think it is all done randomly but that's my opinion lol. If you want to request a roomate all you have to do is enter in their perm number and have them enter in your perm number and make sure they request the same residence hall order as you and the same specialty floors as you and you're pretty much set!</p>
<p>20 open spaces in spring doesn't mean "there are always plenty of open rooms." I would imagine fall availability looks very different than spring hence the reason they won't let you change for 2 quarters. I'm just guessing though...</p>
<p>It's not that they didn't let me change spring quarter, it's that they would always give me 1 or 2 possible rooms saying that was it. Since I was moving for preference reasons and not out of absolute necessity, I was hoping for more. I saw the RD about a week before I got the full list and she only said there were 4 rooms I could check out.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, why the love for manzanita? I'm thinking about dorms and such too.</p>
<p>because it's new, on the beach, and no hall bathrooms--thats mostly why i like it</p>
<p>No hall bathrooms? I hope I don't sound dumb but what does that mean? Isn't FT the only hall where bathrooms are connected to the bedrooms?</p>
<p>Manzanita has bathrooms, but there are four people to each bathrooms, and the bathrooms lock so you can take a shower/do your business in private. Unlike FT, they're not in between rooms, but in the sprinkled throughout the hallways.</p>
<p>Is it true that Manzanita is virtually impossible to get into as a freshman? I have FT as my first choice and manzanita as my second...where do you guys think I'll end up?</p>
<p>it must be hard to get in mazanita village, only 300 space. My first choice, too</p>
<p>Supposedly UCSB houses the interest floors first and then the others so I think if we have an interest floor preference we have a better chance of getting to live where we want. I am not too sure, but that is what UCSB said they do so I hope they're right..</p>