<p>1.) I now know the phone # and email of my roommate...should I call/ email?</p>
<p>2.) I don't really like the room I'm assigned. I looked it up online, and found another hall that I would like to live in. Problem is, the person I'd room with would be a sophomore...would that be weird? </p>
<pre><code> Is it better to room with a fellow frosh or a sophomore? Does it matter at all?
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<p>If I remember correctly from another post, you’ll be attending Iowa State. What building is it? There is only one truly horrendous freshman dorm, the rest range from not-so-great rooms but very social to outstanding rooms that are anti-social. I can probably give you more info on any of the dorms on campus.</p>
<p>PS–freshman year I was in a triple, with one other freshman and a sophomore.</p>
<p>Yes, call them! Chances are that they are just as nervous about calling you and they will be grateful that you called first. If you received it today, I’d maybe wait a day or two depending on where they are from (it takes longer to mail farther away and it would be nice if they had the housing assignment when you called).</p>
<p>Although one hall may look nicer, it may not have a great environment. Are the dorms you got assigned to freshman dorms? If you already got the housing assignment, I’d leave it alone because you are pretty much messing up the other person’s housing (what if there isn’t anyone else compatable to them and you ditched them?), but I also am too careful about other peoples feelings. I’m kinda lost here, is your assigned roommate a freshman or sophmore?</p>
<p>Personally I’d like to live with someone in my own grade level so that we will be experiencing the same things for the first time. You might have a better chance of hanging out with someone in your own grade because a soph will likely have their own friends that they rather hang out with.</p>
<p>Start texting back and forth.</p>
<p>Cards4life: I’m assigned to Lyon-Harwood and my assigned roomate(a freshmen) is from Las Vegas. The room I got is at the end of the hall -way far from the bathroom and stairs. In other words, I’m just not liking how inconvient my dorm room is placed.</p>
<p>I’m thinking about moving to Barton (either Anders or Tappers). The room they have available is right next to the bathroom and stairs so it is more conviently placed. The roomate would be an incoming sophomore, though. I also get the feeling that everyone of my housemate would also be a sophomore or upperclassmen.</p>
<p>What do you suggest? I’m looking for places that are honors housing/clusters.</p>
<p>OKgirl: I don’t think my leaving would be that bad for my currently assigned roommate because the housing schedule is clearly made by a computer and not a ‘housing survey’. I don’t know if I am compatable to them. I know what you mean by being considerate of others..I feel kinda guilty right now thinking about leaving. But if I decided to stay out of guilt, wouldn’t that just be bad then?</p>
<p>Yes, I am assigned to a freshmen dorm. I know, you make a lot of sense -I’d probably have a lot more in common and a larger chance to befriend a frosh than a sophomore, huh? I’m still worried though…If I do decided to stay in Lyon than I’d call her in a week or so -she’s from Las Vegas…</p>
<p>I lived inbetween the stairs and the bathroom last year (though at a different school). Basically, you hear people come home from parties and puke in the bathroom. If you are a light sleeper then you hear the toilets flushing late at night or early in the morning. If you are at the end of the hall then you walk by everyone’s room to get anywhere and can use that to stop by and talk to people, helping you make friends at the begining of the year. It also depends how long your halls are. Would walking down the hall really make a differnece to go to the bathroom or to get to the stairs?</p>
<p>You don’t want to be by the bathroom and the stairs if you want to get any sleep at all. Be happy you have a room at the end of the hall.</p>
<p>Lyon’s pretty cool—not real run down (Helser is horrible), and it’s pretty social. I was there frequently, and honestly, with 3 sets of stairs, the farthest you’ll be from a stairwell is 3-4 rooms. The farthest you can get from the bathroom is 8 rooms.</p>
<p>I’d stay in Lyon. You sound like you’d be happier living with another freshman. The assignments for freshmen are pretty much computer generated, except I think they might take into account smoking preferences too but I can’t remember. All dorms are smoke-free but I know for the student apartments, they ask if you would mind a roommate who smokes outside. Anyway, I was in a triple and we started talking by e-mailing each other to get to know each other and decide who would be bringing what.</p>
<p>Living by a bathroom or stairs would be horrible. You would have to hear toilets flushing all hours of the day and if it is a communal bathroom, you’ll have to hear water running and people singing in the shower. I’d be happy to be at the end of the hall. </p>
<p>Also, if you live by the stairs/elevator, you’ll have everyone walking by your room. It would be good because you’d be able to meet more people, but it is bad because your stuff could be stolen easier considering all the people walking by. You also have to figure that the door to the stairs (usually metal) closes pretty loud and people aren’t exactly quiet walking up/down stairs. I’d stay.</p>
<p>looking at floor plans of halls makes things look a lot different. you’re probably not nearly as far from the stairs as you think.
I think it would be a lot better for you to stay in the freshman dorm this year, and you can always live in the other place next year.
Also, I would recommend emailing or facebooking your roommate before calling.</p>
<p>I’m living near a “wire room” a bathroom and a stair case. Sounds like I’m in trouble. It goes stairs, a few rooms, my room, wire room, bathroom more rooms. </p>
<p>That said, my room looks like it’s bigger than the rest, the others say 2 while mine says 3 even though I only know that i have one roommate. </p>
<p>He doesn’t have facebook so I’m a little worried.</p>
<p>He might just have a nickname. I tried to search for my roommate last year but her profile didn’t come up because I had her full name and she goes by a nickname. Some people also make their profiles unsearchable.</p>
<p>Yeah, my roomie (I decided to stay. I was just freaking out.) doesn’t have facebook either. I’ll wait for a few more days, since she lives in another state, before I’ll email her.</p>
<p>^ I didn’t know you were a girl…</p>
<p>Anyways, good luck with this! I hope it turns out well!</p>
<p>Yeah good luck!</p>
<p>Is it just me, or would any of you be creeped out by a call from your roomie? ‘Creeped out’ might not be the right wording, but I really can’t imagine what I’d say to them. Especially if I was busy. I’d much rather just email them/ be emailed, and that’s probably what I’ll do when I get my assignment later this month (unless they’re easily found on facebook, which would make things easier).</p>
<p>I don’t know if I would have been creeped out, but it would have been extremely awkward. I love my roommate, but talking to her on the phone before we met probably wouldn’t have gone well.</p>
<p>Also, think twice before texting them. Not everyone has texting.</p>
<p>I’m kinda curious, what exactly would you say in a email to them?</p>
<p>You can just tell them a little bit about you. Like where you’re from and what kinds of things you want to do in college. You can even say in your e-mail that you just wanted to introduce yourself. That way there’s no pressure if your roomie is really awkward or shy or just doesn’t check her e-mail much. You can also tell her what you’re planning to bring (TV, fridge, etc.) and if you really want you can coordinate bedding, but most people don’t really do that. It’s just an ice breaker and there are no hard feelings if the other person doesn’t really want to talk (I would have been uncomfortable if my roomie had called. I just don’t like phones and trying to make a first impression that way would be weird).</p>
<p>Also, would it be weird to meet up somewhere or should you just wait to meet face-to-face until move in day?</p>
<p>I got onto facebook back in february… my school has a very active group, and i ended up meeting a lot of people that i can’t wait to meet. One girl in particular stood out to me, we would stay up really late talking, and never ran out of things to say. I ended up asking if she’d like to be my roommate, and so we put each other down as ours.</p>
<p>I’m glad i don’t have the whole awkward introduction thing to go through. :)</p>
<p>My advice would be to email her saying “Hey I saw that you’re going to be my roommie, and you’re from Las Vegas, that’s interesting place to live i would assume. I am from … blah blah blha… Well if you have texting here is my number… can’t wait to meet you.”</p>
<p>Something like that.</p>