<p>Are they really going to assign us a compatable roomate based on four general questions? I thought there would have been a more indepth questionarre.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree. I watched my son fill his out and under "cleans room" he couldn't find the choice "once a year whether it needs it or not."</p>
<p>The roommate questionaire looks to find you a compatible roommate, not a life partner. The questions they ask- those are the issues that roommates disagree on most often: One stays up later, this one's a slob, they're always playing music. </p>
<p>This isn't match.com, people.</p>
<p>So start talking to your fellow CCers talk to them ask them on IM who they are what they are like, if they're clean if they stay up if the study a lot of they smoke drink screw etc etc and if you're ok with them put them down as your requested room mate by name. EOF.</p>
<p>I was surprised last year by how short the questionnaire was - I had seen a longer questionnaire to match prospectice students with hosts for another college's pre-freshman weekend - but it works out pretty well. Almost everyone I know gets along well with their roommates. A few end up becoming best friends, but for the most part, the people the housing office puts together are able to peacefully coexist. My roommate right now is quite different from me, but our habits are similar. We're not best friends, but we've lived together for the last 8 months without a problem.</p>
<p>There are some cases when roommates are absolutely not able to stand each other and this is where RAs come in - they're trained to help you resolve your conflicts and if all else fails, the Housing office can try to reassign you to a new room (the option of last resort).</p>