<p>The guys I stayed with when I visited Dartmouth told me that I'll receive a notice telling me who my roommates are well before the term begins so I have ample time to decide with them how we're going to buy the communal necessities of the room. Does anyone know when exactly I'll find out what my rooming assignment is and who my roommates are? For that matter, I haven't even received anything that allows me to indicate my rooming preference yet, when does that come?</p>
<p>Sometime in early August, I think I remember.</p>
<p>mail from first year office (including rooming and doc info) will be mailed to you in "late May" according to a handout at Dimensions.</p>
<p>Enjoy graduation, you will be getting mailings beginning in a couple of weeks. You might want to start checking the DOC website around Memorial Day, the trip forms and options are posted a few days before you get the mailing.</p>
<p>is it a good idea to find someone to room with before you go? the friend with whom i stayed for dimensions said that i should definitely find someone on facebook or at dimensions or from my school that i can stay with. he said it's not worth taking the chance and getting stuck with a weirdo, like he did. otherwise, it just makes for awkward situations if things dont work out and you guys dont mesh well.</p>
<p>thoughts/comments/suggestions/opinions?</p>
<p>you could always request a singel. lots of freshmen who didn't want singles got them this year anyway because there are so many for freshmen.</p>
<p>requesting a roommate can backfire if it turns out you don't get along with them. there's a certain expectation with someone you requested. D said there were some guys who met at Dimensions and requested to live together. It was so bad that some of them had to switch rooms.</p>
<p>Just a Mom's experience here, but unless you know someone very well, amd aren't best friends, you'll probably do better answering the questions in the packet as honestly as possible, and quietly moving during freshman year if the situation is intolerable.
Many activities in frosh year, espocially 1st term, go by in packs - 3-4 rooms together, or the whole floor will go to dinner, you will find friends, and sometimes it is better for day to day living to share sleeping habits and music taste with your roomie than to be best buddies.
It is not uncommon to hear of roommates separating at the end of the first year with a quiet sigh of relief to go live with close friends the next year, then end up rooming together as juniors because their match was actually better for day to day living.</p>
<p>If you want the experience of a roommate but are worried about ending up with someone strange, request a 3-room double (theres not really a place, but there is an extra-comments section, and i think if you request something specific they'll try to give it to you). That way, if you get along, great, but if not, you still have your own space, and that common room buffer zone.</p>
<p>I also have't received anything from Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Don't worry. Mail takes a long time coming but when it does, all of it seems to come at once.</p>
<p>Yeah, I looked on the ORL website, and the 2010 "mailings" were already available as PDFs! And the PDF letter said May 2006 at the top. It should be coming soon!</p>
<p>(Hopefully before I leave for vacation, since they want the forms back by 6/20... and I'll return on 6/20...)</p>
<p>machiavelli, if you're worried about that, why don't you just download and print the PDFs?</p>
<p>that's probably what i'll end up doing. but i like to have... official documents lol. and there was supposed to be an envelope or something with it... i'm not sure what the address on there was.</p>
<p>machiavelli:</p>
<p>my S received three packages in today's mail from Hanover. We're in SoCal, so the stuff is in the hand of the USPS.</p>
<p>Wow thanks blue :) Three packages - that's so exciting!</p>