<p>It's hit or miss, and your personality and ability to deal with strangers plays a role as well. Don't be afraid to stand up for your own space, but be respectful of others. Clean up after your own ****, and everything will be a-okay.</p>
<p>Your roommates know where you sleep. So don't **** them off. Snooze your alarm as soon as you hear it, don't let it keep ringing. Hone your ninja skills in the morning if you have earlier classes than they do. And/or if you stay up later than they do. Do not be a wuss, and speak up if something doesn't agree with you. Don't forget about things in the fridge and smell it up. If one of the roommates likes vacuuming more often than the other two do, help them out when they vacuum instead of just leaving!!! (Seriously. Who the hell just LEAVES??? She seriously <em>ing left. And she's the messiest of the room. *</em><em>.) And try not to be the last person to move in, or else you get all the *</em>*ty storage spaces.</p>
<p>Rooming with random people is not hard. But maybe I just got lucky, that neither of my roomies have faults that go further than annoyances.</p>
<p>I don't think there's any real way of judging in advance what random roommates would be like. You just have to jump straight into it and deal with whatever you get. A lot of it depends on you... I know some people who are just too demanding and too easily affected by anything. They want things to be perfect... thats definitely NOT going to happen.
Most people I know are not great friends with their roommates... I'll probably never see my roommates after this year. But that doesn't mean that we hate each other... we help each other out, respect the other's privacy, and are in general concerned about their well-being. However, we don't do very many things together, or have any real matching interests. We don't necessarily agree with each others' lifestyles, and we certainly don't like some things about each other.Everything works out real well if everyone just uses the room to sleep, kick back alone, or do some work. Do everything else outside.</p>
<p>orrrrr...you can be safe and try finding a room off of the UCLA 2012 facebook group. there's a roommate search thread with more comprehensive questions than ucla's roommate questionnaire. i think it's a much safer way to ensuring that your first year at ucla will be a good experience, if not a great one. and, it's still random...sorta. =P</p>