<p>So Berkeley posted the room assignments for the 2010-2011 school year. I'm a freshman, class of 2014. I checked my room assignment and roommate, and immediately logged onto Facebook to see what she was like. And I found out she is going to be a second year next year! Does Berkeley often pair first years with second years? And is there any way to switch because of it? Because I think my first year will be easier and a lot less stressful if I have someone who is just as clueless about college life as I am. Anyone know what I should do? Help? PLEASE?!</p>
<p>College is all about new experiences. So what if your roommate isn’t a freshman like you? I’m a junior transfer who got a sophomore as a roommate. Sure I was slightly disappointed but I’m super excited and she’s super nice. Deal!! :D</p>
<p>Or she could turn out to be a wealth of knowledge and advice about how to survive and be comfortable your first year…</p>
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I think most people would say that this sentence doesn’t really make sense haha. Wouldn’t having a roommate with experience to help you out make your college life easier?</p>
<p>^ Depends on how much the older roommate cares haha. IMO it can go either way</p>
<p>Well if your roommate isn’t a total d*** then he/she would probably help you out haha. I guess really it’s a crapshoot. You could end up with a terrible freshman roommate or an amazing sophomore roommate, as well as the other way around.
Really it wouldn’t matter to me if my roommate was a sophomore…</p>
<p>Yea you’re right lol</p>
<p>i think op just wants someone she will be best friends with. Lol, it’s not going to happen.</p>
<p>I am a freshmen, and I think I got a graduate student as my roomate.</p>
<p>^ What makes you think you got a grad student?</p>
<p>I looked him up on facebook, and he was a fan of UC Davis Geology Department. </p>
<p>Maybe my conjecture might be wrong. lol</p>
<p>What graduate student would be able to afford the dorms?</p>
<p>uh, a graduate student of an affluent family? lol</p>
<p>Is it rare to have a freshmen and a graduate student paired up?</p>
<p>Grad students don’t live in the dorms.</p>
<p>Is that a general saying? Or are you saying grad students cannot live in dorms?</p>
<p>grad students get separate housing: [Living</a> at Cal](<a href=“http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/livingatcal/graduatestudents.html]Living”>http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/livingatcal/graduatestudents.html)</p>
<p>edit: and to the op: second year/first year roommates aren’t too big of a deal. there were two pairs like this on my floor last year and they seemed to get along just fine mostly 'cause the second years helped the first years with advice and whatnot.</p>
<p>if anything, your roommate should be the disappointed one (getting a freshman roommate, c’mon).
just kidding…</p>
<p>so true, i think it is actually kind of a benefit. because you can always ask them questions and whatnot
so my roommate knows who i am but i don’t know who she is (since she didn’t disclose her info) sooooo i really wish she would just facebook me or something!</p>
<p>If your roommate did not opt to release his/her information what message do you receive in the roommate assignment page? Like, if it says you’re assigned to, say, a triple, but you only have one roommate and there is no notice of another roommate (it doesn’t say anything about not disclosing information), does that automatically mean the third roommate opted out of showing his/her information, or is there a chance you have no third roommate?</p>
<p>could be either, but even if one slot is empty now, they could fill it at any time.</p>