<p>How do they choose your college roommate?</p>
<p>Also, do they ever pair you up with someone from your same high school if you DON'T ask for it specifically?</p>
<p>What are some bad/good experiences with having a roommate</p>
<p>Most colleges have a lil questionaire they have you fill out to find out about yhour hobbies, interests, sleep style, and all kinds of other things that are important.</p>
<p>There's a thread on bad room-mate stories if you search. The stories were very funny (and I was amazed at how similar they were then and now...bad room-mates never seem to change the ways in which they are bad.)</p>
<p>About the post above me, you have to remember that for every bad story there is probably a good story too.</p>
<p>They usually match up people who answered similarly in their questionnaires. I'm sure it's possible to be randomly assigned to room with a high school classmate. Depends on how many people from your school are going to your same college.</p>
<p>I don't know anyone who's been unhappy in a single, but plenty of people unhappy in doubles/triples. I disagree with the idea that being in a single hampers your social life, because most likely you'll be in a hall with other singles. On the other hand, doubles are cheaper and you <strong>might</strong> really get along with your roommate. Most people argue that doubles are a good experience to learn how to "live with other people" but from my experience, learning how to deal with my roommates is something I could have survived without.</p>
<p>Doubles at my school aren't cheaper to my knowledge, not directly anyway. But with doubles, you do split up between you and your roommate who's bringing what...</p>
<p>But singles at my school are rare. I don't think a single really kills your social life. I don't hang out with my roommate very often really. And he's a local, so on the weekends a lot of the time, I pretty much do have a single.</p>
<p>It might be best to try to find someone you might be interested in rooming with on facebook, thats how me and my roommate decided to room together and its worked out great. People posted personal profiles on groups and i think a good amount of people found roommates that way.</p>
<p>i went and found someone on facebook because i was so afriad of having bad first roommates like my two older brothers. it worked out.. alright.</p>
<p>we wound up having less in common than we thought. i think she didnt answer questions truthfully because even though i said i was messy and she was neat she wound up being the messy one. she went to bed earlier than she oringally said (even though i went to bed later than i said too). i also thought i made it really clear that i love having people around and going out every night on weekends and she never stayed out past one, in the last month she didnt go out on weekends at all.</p>
<p>she had some family problems going on that made her decide to transfer back home to north carolina (from boston) and im most likely going to be living alone next semester. now even though i was really irritated with her by the end of the semseter.. its gonna stink living alone. i know that if i dont make an effort itll become too easy to be isolated.</p>
<p>so on that note i suggest going in random, more than half of my close friends from home say they couldnt ask for a better roomie situation. and i would also say dont request a single, im wishing every night that i get assigned a new roommate.</p>
<p>Just wondering. I still got time--but what happens when you are unable to wake up to an alarm clock? What do they do for the roomie situation!?</p>
<p>i had a roommate but he moved out into an apartment two months in. i didnt have a roommate the rest of the semester. it has heaven. so many advantages for having a single. trust me, the benefits outweigh the downsides. but beanieboo is right, its much much easier to become isolated in your room</p>
<p>Usually you do wake up to an alarm clock. But then you might turn it off. Try putting your phone (with alarm) on your desk so you have to get up.</p>
<p>But speaking of alarms, lol... I was the second last (besides my RA) to go home for winter break, and I guess these guys from another room never turned off the alarm clock. Anyway, the morning I left I heard their alarm clock going off for hours, heh</p>
<p>^ Gotta try that though I'm such a heavy sleeper, I doubt that I'll even hear it. If so, I'll fall back to sleep. Maybe it's a very good thing I'm planning on going away for school---and learning how to wake up to an alarm.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Well...the first week or so of school I couldn't sleep more than 8 hours on the weekends and during the week I couldn't sleep later than 8 AM or something. After a while, though, even if I didn't get up to my alarm, my body started naturally waking up at least 15 mins before my class starts, which isn't enough time to get to the shower before class, but depending on how important the particular class was, I was still able to attend.</p>
<p>asdfjkl1, once you realize that you need to start waking up to an alarm, your body will adjust. Right now your probably just used to tuning out the sound. If you have a roommate and have any shred of consideration, you'll learn to wake up to it to turn it off. Beginning of last semester, my roommate used to set her alarm at ungodly hours and NEVER wake up to it. Sure she'd sometimes hit snooze, but that would be even worse. I'd wake up to it at 6am, hear her slam the snooze, wake up to it again at 6:15am, and so forth. I'd have to turn it off myself and drag her ass out of bed, LITERALLY. She'd either crawl back into bed, give me dirty looks, or hit me. After a while, I finally confronted her about it. She got super b*tchy and said I was the one being disrespectful and argued that she physically couldn't help not hearing her alarm. Basically this is why I am so pro-single. Oh yeah, back to my point. She eventually was able to put her alarm on her bed, set her alarm at a reasonable time, and wake up when it went off. It's all mental.</p>
<p>I have a hard time waking up to alarm clocks too, but I found out that when I know I have to be the one to make myself get up (my mom usually makes sure I get up and she was gone some and I had to wake myself up) I can do it. Some of my deal was that I knew I could lay there the extra minutes. </p>
<p>Try setting your alarm to the radio or a CD you like and put it far enough from your bed where it's not easy to reach. I personally wouldn't put it too far away b/c i'm super clumsy when I wake up. What I also did is on my roomate thing, I said I wake up earlier than I do so I'll get someone that wakes up early for just in case I can't get myself up. You also should try to wake up at the same time everyday so your body will get used to it. I also set my cell phone so it will go off 15 minutes after my alarm clock.</p>
<p>I found these tips helpful</p>
<p>Have two alarms on opposite ends of the rooms. Set the alarm to the same exact time but different tones.
Also, when you go to bed, tell yourself that you have to wake up by <em>insert time here</em> by tomorrow. Remind yourself that you need to wake up.</p>
<p>I used to be awful at waking up to an alarm. My roommate and I have the same morning class and he never woke me up when I overslept. WTH. <em>but i ended up doing the same to him</em></p>
<p>After a while it got to bad that if I missed one more class I would have failed that class. So the method above was what I used and it worked and still works. *Annoys the hell outta my roommate though.</p>