<p>I recently got my roommate assignment (freshman), and when I did I went onto FB to find the guy.</p>
<p>Profile picture is him and some solo cups. Great first impression, even though I DO plan to drink.</p>
<p>He was easy to find, and I sent him a friend request with an attached message: "hey dude, I think we're roommates."</p>
<p>About a week went by and I got no notification of him accepting my friend request, so I went back to his profile and saw the "add as a friend" bar on his page, which means that he had ignored my request.</p>
<p>I sent him another message just saying that we needed to figure some stuff out and such, and he replied simply by saying "$hit sho bro."</p>
<p>I replied with "haha what?" and he replied with a youtube link to Bed Rock-Young Money.</p>
<p>I sent him another friend request and it was again ignored.</p>
<p>Is it too early to be worried about this.. and how should I handle this?</p>
<p>He sounds like a jerk, but stop repeatedly friending him on facebook - he already ignored you once, why did you add him again? no sense in forcing a friendship if he doesn’t want to. you don’t have to be best friends with your roommate, just get along with him and learn to live together in the same small space. Out of my 3 suitemates from last semester, I became very good friends with one, and I didn’t personally like the other 2 - nor were we FB friends - but we got along just fine.</p>
<p>As for working out who brings what, just bring what you need, expect that he’ll bring what he needs, and don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>I agree with pinkstrawberry but there’s a difference between trying to forge a friendship and trying to work out some of the details with the person you’re gonna spending at least the next few months with. </p>
<p>It’s like asking a cashier which way to the restrooms and the cashier responding with a rendition of ‘crank dat soulja boy’</p>
<p>He sounds like a jerk. For now, I’d avoid trying to contact him again and just wait until you meet him when school starts. If he’s still a dick several weeks into freshman year, then switch roommates.</p>
<p>You might want to find out now what your school/dorm policy is on switching roommates. At my D’s school you are stuck for the first two weeks - then changes can be made/worked out. </p>
<p>Perhaps the two of you can live peacefully together without being friends - but if the differences manifest into something no reasonable person could live with (as happened to my friend’s son) you should stand up for yourself and be willing to do whatever is necessary to get a living arrangement you can truly live with.</p>
<p>Try to get a roommate change. I know your roommate isn’t necessarly going to be your next BFF but I assume some sort of neutrality between both parties and by what you said I don’t think that will happen with this person (but we all could be misjudging him…? lol). Good luck to you! Damn your freshman year too! :/</p>
<p>I recommend meeting him before you get a roommate change, at least. Going to the admins with something more than “he has a horrible taste in music” is a good idea.</p>
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The only thing with that is…I would assume that once the school year starts other students will want to switch up their roommates for various reasons and I’m sure that could be difficult. </p>
<p>Facebook - people go so crazy. Tons of people I know and talk to . . . a lot, who aren’t on my FB. You actually have to friends with me in real life to be on my friends list.</p>
<p>That being said - wait till you meet him. He sounds pretty bad now, but he might turn out to be ok. You don’t have to be best friends with him, just learn to live with him. At least, that’s what all my friends have done. Also, stop contacting him.</p>