<p>I am currently slated to share a double room suite (including a shared bathroom) and an adjacent [parallel] living space with three roommates - all of which are sophomore students (I am a freshman). Can this arrangement have any negative repercussions (complications and/or conflicts) to my social, emotional and/or intellectual well-being? What types of influential factors should be taken into consideration to ensure a smooth transition (in retrospect of being the lone freshman)?</p>
<p>I had this happen my freshman year many years ago… my roommate in a double was a sophmore, and her two best friends lived next store. They were always NICE to me… but I usually felt uncomfortable joining them, as they already has an easy friendship going. I really had to find friends outside my room/next door neighbors. I made friends with the girls across the hall, and met some others through a boy from my high school who lived in the same dorm who had made some friends. It worked out fine for me for the most part.</p>
<p>However… arranging housing for the next year was a challenge. Everyone I was friends with wanted to stick with their current roommates for the next year, and all were in doubles/going to doubles. Might be better now with suitemates (you could find a group to join). I ended up as the “uneven number” person without a roommate, and then lost out in the dorm lottery. 
Had to scramble to get back into the dorms at all at my large university the next fall, and was across campus from my friends. Eventually got a transfer to a dorm near my old one, but was housed with a freshman (not ideal for either of us). I never did “settle” on one roommate during college… spent soph year with the one I transferred to, roomed blind the next year and got a freshman, then moved to a co-op with my friends the next year (roomed blind there, liked my roommate, but she left school after first semester). So AGAIN roomed blind last semester of senior year, and finally found a great roommate!</p>
<p>So… I would start the “roommate” dance of looking for next year’s suitemates early.</p>