<p>I'm curious to find out what other people have put on their roommate preference form on the UC House System app. I'm having a hard time deciding on the exact order of preferences. What would/did you put?</p>
<p>The below information is marked yes to no, and it asks you to order them 1 to 9 in order of preference, with 1 being the most important.</p>
<p>I wish to be assigned to a single sex floor
I wished to be assigned to a house with its own dining hall
I prefer a single room/double room
I prefer a roomate who shares my academic interests
I have physical medical needs that require special consideration in my housing assignment
I am a smoker/nonsmoker
I prefer a roommate who is fairly quiet
I prefer a roomate who is neat
I prefer a roomate who is a "night person"</p>
<p>The app also asks you to answer the following yes/no questions:
I am neat
I am fairly quiet
I am a smoker/nonsmoker
I am a "night person"</p>
<p>"Do you think it would be bad if I asked to be roomed with a white gentille?"</p>
<p>I personally think people should be honest in their preferences, even if those preferences may not sound like a politically correct thing to say. The only way to get what you want (or don't want) is to communicate it.</p>
<p>RejectedRy,
I dunno, if I were in charge of assigning rooms and saw your request, I would do my best to assign you to a black homosexual atheist, just to open your mind.</p>
<p>Hey, I don't like this community shower idea...how can i avoid it? I never used community shower in my life so I could get used to it but I prefer not to.</p>
<p>Contra open mindedness:
"Our time is short and precious. It is therefore wise to limit our exposure to fruitless tasks and the multitude of fools who only steal away what is irreplaceable. For the same reason it is important to stay away from people who call themselves "open-minded" because it means that they recklessly accept everything instead of choosing only what is best. </p>
<p>Open-minded people bask in self-praise for supporting all ideas, regardless of their worth or consequences. Resting comfortably between nihilism and the forced equality of democracy, open-mindedness reveals its anti-intellectual instinct through its fervor to remove distinctions between what is valuable and what is useless. It aspires to avoid considering differences at all, dismissing facts as merely one of many opinions. It weighs all outcomes as equal, thus removing any responsibility for making bad decisions or suffering from someone else's bad decisions. It completely disregards the costs of tolerating harmful ideas and makes no effort to limit their damage. "
see <a href="http://www.datejesus.com/sermons/openminded/%5B/url%5D">http://www.datejesus.com/sermons/openminded/</a> for more</p>
<p>I'm not some sheltered born-again chrsitian or anything. I listen to rap as often as I do death metal, and though I'm not an atheist I reject all monotheistic religions. I'm just not afraid to realize I have a greater chance of forming friendships with people similar to myself. However, the housing form does specifically say that they do not assign people to rooms based on ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>But would you guys be all that comfortable being with a flambouyant gay man or a transgender?</p>
<p>Here's another interesting question. I'm not a "smoker" per se, but I certainly want to have the option to do so in my room when the moment arises. It almost seems like, however, by checking "smoker," you open yourself up to a whole new category of roomate, a completely different class from everyone else. The kind of kid who is likely to smoke would be pretty different from "the rest." Of course, this isn't true in all cases... but it's still warrants me to think really hard about what I eventually decide.</p>
<p>I'm choosing to ignore all the other stuff that was said after the original thread. I want a single room, frankly, and I tried to make that pretty clear. I figure that in living away from home with 4,000 other students, it would be nice to have a little space to myself, even if it's small. But I checked things just in case they force me to have a roomate. I think the first thing I said was non-smoking, then I don't remember the order, something like quiet, neat, early-to-bed, that I didn't care about their academic interests, nor did I care about a dining hall in my dorm nor whether my floor was single-sex. So essentially, I checked everything that would give me a non-roomate, haha. If I have to have one, I'd rather not have them be loud, annoying or incredibly social, and heaven forbid, messy. What about the rest of you? Do you guys want roomates? Why?</p>
<p>I don't really want a single because I'm anti-social enough as it is! Anyway, a double room isn't really that bad, provided you get along. I agree with you about messy roommates; I'm a neat-freak. I'm pretty easy to get along with, though, so I'm not too worried. Early-to-bed, Sarahbara? Is that possible with the workload at Chicago? :)</p>
<p>Ha! Not really. But I checked that box so that I hopefully won't get someone who comes back wasted every night at 4. I'd rather keep someone up with my racket than vice versa, as selfish as that sounds. :)</p>
<p>My brother has been urging me to request a single once I submit my housing forms, but I just can't see myself doing it. I think that being forced to interact with at least one person is critical at Chicago. I would feel like a tool exploring the house's living room or the Reynolds Club alone.</p>
<p>As for the smoking issue, RejectedRyan brings up a good point actually. However, after my brother developed a bit of asthma from rooming with a fraternity brother who smoked, I don't think it'd be worth risking.</p>
<p>I think you're understating the bathroom situation, ottothecow. Personally, I'd be annoyed as hell if I found a toilet already full of urine when I went to take a leak. The extra effort it'd take to reach down and flush the toilet before taking care of your business multiplied by an entire school year would kill me.</p>
<p>Then again, you could always make little reminder signs like, "I urinate; therefore, I flush," or, "To flush or not to flush: it's not even a question, just do it."</p>
<p>I agree with Brinestorm. Part of the living in a dorm and college experience involves rooming with someone else. In most cases, this is someone you've never met before. </p>
<p>I signed no preference for double/single but I'm most likely going to Max P where I'll have a roommate. I'm confident (or hopeful) that I wont have a horrible roomate, but if the whole idea of doubling does not turn out well, I'll just go for a single the following years at Uchicago.</p>
<p>Conversely, if Sarah doesn't like her single, she can always find someone to room with next year.</p>
<p>Ryan,
Judging from your posts, it's apparent YOU would get along best with those who are exactly like you, but that isn't the purpose of an education, and especially not a Chicago education. Diversity brings a variety of viewpoints, from which you can learn from, attempt to understand, and from there, choose what is "best." Those who are open-minded, rather than being reckless as you propose, are actually the most qualified to decide what is "best," because they have had exposure to all options. Those like you, closed-minded people, are more likely get along with those like them, this is true. But in just the same way that debate between those who agree isn't very interesting, a friendship between two people who are the same isn't very rewarding. In your post, you made it clear that you believe white gentiles are the "best" kind of person, and by only associating with these people, you have proven yourself not reckless. Do you realize that you are judging people solely on factors that they cannot themselves control, and that really have no effect on their person self whatsoever? Seeing as it will be difficult at Chicago to find individuals as bigoted as yourself, you may be in for a surprise come fall and find yourself very lonely. I'd advise you to come to college with an open mind, so you can decide for youself what you believe is "best," and strive for that goal, rather than spit out the words of others as those to live your life by.</p>
<p>Dumb questions:
1) Do they put different sex in one room? No way right?
2) What are private bath? Does it mean nobody else use them by you? No way right?
3) Singles and Doubles cost the same? I'm taking single; I like to sleep in privacy.</p>
<p>If one more person attempts to draw serious conclusions about another's personality over the Internet--</p>
<p>I think the aposiopesis speaks for itself.</p>
<p>jnumbers,</p>
<ol>
<li>No. Same floor perhaps, but not the same room.</li>
<li>If it's a single and it has a private bath, it's all yours I suppose. If it's a double, the private bath is shared between you and your roomate.</li>
<li>Yes.</li>
</ol>
<p>My daughter is a freshman at UChicago. She lives in Burton Judson and plans to live there again next year. Her floor is coed. If you want a single, you are likely to get one there. There are very few doubles and even some of the rooms classified as "doubles" have a single entry and two rooms within (one for each person).</p>