<p>Are roommate assignments completely random freshman year?</p>
<p>They are unless you told housing specific people you want to live with.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, having totally random roommates isn’t as horrible as it seems. You’ll get to meet a lot of diverse people, and also find out a bit about yourself. Worse comes to worse, you don’t like your roommate and have more of an excuse to get out there and hang out with the people you do like</p>
<p>Oh and for an engineering student is a macbook sufficient?</p>
<p>Get a real computer that runs windows. Makes it easier to program and solid model.</p>