<p>i know students are randomly placed in a residential college, but within their residential college are freshman matched to roommates randomly or do they try and match you according to interest or habits (like me sleeping 5 hours a night)</p>
<p>Anyone know if you can request a room mate too?</p>
<p>yeah you can request a roommate, you just can't request which dorm/college yr staying in...also when i stayed at rice for an overnight visit my student host said that the surveys to match roommates are really extensive...she says that on her survey they asked everything from what time you go to sleep to what yr ultimate sexual fantasy is to what yr perfect idea of a vacation is...thought tht was pretty interesting.</p>
<p>i think you can, on the freshman college information form there's a place for "special considerations" where you can ask to be assigned to the same college as an incoming student, under that it says "we do/do not wish to be roommates (must be exercised by both prospective students in advance of assignments to colleges) "</p>
<p>the roommate survey is about five pages long. I always heard before coming to Rice that Rice is so good at matching roommates together. The people who decide the roommates sometimes don't do a good job. I didn't match up with my roommate. It seems like at Lovett there has been a lot of problems among the freshman guys. I am not really sure how the people who chose our roommates screwed up so much.</p>
<p>The survey is moderately long - they have both direct questions that might be a bit blunt ("how would you react if your roommate borrowed something of yours without asking?", "do you have any feelings about roommates with different sexual orientations?") as well as prompts where you can say as little or as much as you please ("if you could have a romantic or torrid relationship with anyone, real or fictional, who would it be, and why?", "describe your favorite memory," "describe your ideal friend" etc.) One form is confidential (the one with the blunter questions) and is only for the roommate selectioin committee to look at, while the second one is sent to your roommate or roommates. My advice to you or anyone who will be starting Rice this fall would be BE AS EXPLICIT AS POSSIBLE on your form. If you are a partyer or plan to be, say so; if you don't plan to party/drink, make that clear and mention that you want a roommate with a similar mentality. If you feel uncomfortable rooming with someone of a different sexual orientation than you, say that. </p>
<p>Like torrestowers, my roommate situation sucks, though in all fairness her true character wasn't accurately conveyed in her roommate form and it wasn't until I got to know her that our problems started. I know of many other people in my college who've had bad matchings, and to be honest, unless your roommate gets violent and swings a heavy floor lamp at you (which happened last year), you're stuck with who you've got for the whole year and the college coordinators aren't effective in rectifying these situations.</p>
<p>And yes, if you know someone who's also going to be a freshman this year and want to room with them, you can both write that on your form and you'll get assigned to the same college rooming together. Conversely, if you know of someone you DON'T want to room with, you can write that too, and you won't be stuck with that person.</p>
<p>The oweek coordinators try their best to match people based on the roommate forms. However, even as long as the forms are they don't give you a full impression of a person, they can only do the best they can. Obviously they are going to be situations which don't work, but they really do try.</p>
<p>I put down a friend that may or may not be going to Rice... if he ends up not going, I have to do the survey right? Would they just send it to me or something?</p>
<p>You've already submitted a roommate form? Usually that's in a packet of O-week info they send to you in May or June. As I understand, every incoming student has to fill out these forms in May or June, send them to Rice, and then in a few months the residential college you've been assigned to will send you a packet of information about O-week and your roommate(s). This way if you want to room a specific person, you know that they're definitely going to Rice at that point! I'm pretty sure in your case, kevC, you'll still get the information packet in a few months, and if your friend is still planning on going to Rice, then you fill out your roommate form saying you want to room with him, and he does the same on his, and then you'll be assigned to room together.</p>
<p>Oh, thanks for the info. It was just like a sheet that asked for a preferred roomate. Real simple, name and an address. I guess it was just some kind of preliminary survey.</p>
<p>It is usually a collaboration between the masters and the president of the college.</p>
<p>I see a 2-page questionnaire on the net that asks the following...</p>
<p>Please note when completing this form:</p>
<p> Write using a black pen so that forms may be easily photocopied.
The answers you write on this form do not affect your academic status in any way. Please feel free to be completely honest.
Be yourself! This questionnaire is designed to help your residential college get to know you better.</p>
<p>Name / Nickname / Date of Birth / Gender
Home College or University
Address for Correspondence + the usual contact info</p>
<p>Please describe your family:[ul][<em>]What is your primary academic interest?
[</em>]What are your other academic interests?
[<em>]What non-academic activities interest you? How do you spend your free time? (For example: sports, music, reading)
[</em>]What is your favorite
book / movie / food / place to go / music group
[<em>]What are you doing this summer?
[</em>]What types of music do you listen to?[/ul]answer as many of the following questions as youd like...[ul][<em>]If your house was on fire, what three things (not people) would you save?
[</em>]If you could have a romantic affair with anyone, real or fictional, modern or historic, who would it be and why?
[<em>]What three people, real or fictional, would you invite to dinner and why?
[</em>]If you had unlimited time and unlimited money, where would you go on a trip around the world? What would you do?
[*]Is there anything else that the student coordinators, your student advisors or your future roommates should know about you?[/ul]It seems strange that the normal questions (smoking, sleeping, neat/messy, etc.) are omitted...</p>
<p>You can actually change roommates quite easily. Well for me it was really easy. I asked the guy who was always smoking pot in my suite if he would want to switch roommates with me. There was no paper work to fill out, all I had to do was tell the college coordinator that I was going to switch with this person in this room.We moved all of our stuff from our rooms in one night and that was it. </p>
<p>Also, I think that the two page questionairre that gsp<em>silicon</em>valley found online is not complete. That sounds like the questionairre that is not confidential. That is the sheet that your roommate receives. The other stuff about neatness and sleeping is on a separate questionairre.
(How many times did I misspell questionnaire in this post)</p>