roommate moved out without telling ahead?

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<p>My roommate and I got matched randomly by the school during the summer. We got along pretty well, even though we aren't the most chatty type. Last semester, he and I went to dinner together almost every night (except when he got track practices). During the weekends, he does his own things while I spent most of my time outside with some of the other people I met on campus. I wouldn't say we don't get along, even though yeah, we don't talk much of the time. He does his own things and skype with his girlfriend when he's in the room, and I normally just do my homework or play my computer games. We chat about stuffs from time to time, and actually went to a football together. Sure, we don't talk a lot, but enough so we aren't "just two guys sharing a room" sort of roommates.</p>

<p>Yet, my roommate moved out of our dorm room last afternoon without telling me ahead of time (spring started last wk). I woke up last morning and went to class, came back and chatted with him about the Super Bowl, his Calc homework, and some European soccer matches and such.</p>

<p>Everything went real normal and 5 minutes before I went out to my next class...he told me he is moving out of the room within the hour (so before I get back from class). I was surprised that he's moving out, thought everything was doing well between us. He never complained about anything before and we never had a single moment of tension all last semester. I was actually slightly annoyed by the sudden notice, we never talked about why he's moving out of the room...he just went "Hey, before you go, I'm moving out of the room and not coming back today. I'll be gone within the hour and moving to another dorm room...so um, good luck in your last class today and see ya!"</p>

<p>Not sure why he moved out...had this happen to any of yall before?</p>

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<p>Also on a side note…generally speaking, if my roommate moved out…would I be getting a new roommate this semester?</p>

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<p>Maybe something serious happened that he didn’t want to talk to a lot of people about. Is he still a student?</p>

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<p>To answer your second post, yes, odds are you will get another roommate.</p>

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<p>Yeah, first semester last year I had a random roommate. We weren’t very close or anything, didn’t talk at all and I randomly came home one day and he was like “I’m moving to Hughes” and he was gone that day. I didn’t really care, was pretty happy about it. I didn’t get a new roommate until the next semester, but I went to a much smaller school.</p>

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<p>Alright then, I suppose I’ll wait and see what happen. And yeah, I think he is still a full-time student…he just moved into another room (he posted on FB saying he just moved in & got internet this morning).</p>

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<p>It might’ve been a situation where a friend’s roommate moved out, and asked him to move in so he didn’t get a random match. Doesn’t sound like he had any real issues with you.</p>

<p>You’ll probably get a new roommate, since it’s pretty early in the semester. You could also ask your RA, they’ll (hopefully) know how things work specific to your school.</p>

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<p>I have heard way worse roommate stories. :slight_smile: Sounds like something not really related to you got him to move. </p>

<p>When my D changed rooms her second semester of freshman year, the housing office let her “interview” roommates before making a final decision. They told her where there were open rooms/who the person in the room was, and she was able to meet them for coffee to chat before making a mutual decision on the move. This was at a smallish liberal arts college, though, I am guessing not all colleges would do this. And you might not even want to, since you sound like “chatting” might not really be your thing. :)</p>