<p>Heey! So I'm leaving for school in exactly 10 days!! As excited as I am, I'm also completely freaked out. I went down the random roommate path, and I received my housing assignment a few weeks ago. Come to find out that I am not in a room with 1 other girl... or 2 other girls... I'm sharing a dorm with 3 other girls. We're in a suite, so it's two rooms in the dorm. At first I was like oh, this will be cool. But As time went by, I started to notice all of the things that could go wrong.. Like for one, I'm afraid that the two girls in the other room will become best friends and completely isolate me and my roommate, or that One of my suitemates won't get along with someone else in the dorm, and it'll be like WWIII. My other concern is how I'm going to make friends. I'm very shy, for the most part, and I'm worried that my shyness is going to hold me back from having a good time. Anyone with suggestions, or worries of their own are more than welcome to post. :)</p>
<p>I’m worried too. I applied for a single room and turns out I’m in a triple room!</p>
<p>Look at the bright side, though. At least you’ll have people to hang out with for the first few days before you make other friends of your own.</p>
<p>Another bright side is that this can help you stop being shy. You have to initiate contact, you know?</p>
<p>the nice thing about freshman year is that almost nobody knows anyone yet… with the exception of a few kids who got to college with their high school friends and stick to that. – my roommate was sorta like this, although he branched out a bit more as the days progressed. </p>
<p>there will be plenty of outgoing people who aren’t afraid to sit down with someone new at lunch – i’m sure you’ll meet plenty of people that way, but there’ll be a good number of shy people who will be sitting by themselves and would appreciate it if you introduced yourself… if you can’t feel comfortable doing this, you can take the loner role and wait for someone to say hi to you, but this isn’t always reliable. </p>
<p>My advice for living in the suite: these people are like your family. its best you get to know and love them because you’re guaranteed to have arguments and you’ll have to put up with them throughout. That said, make sure you have some close friends elsewhere, maybe on another floor or in another building. that way you have somewhere to go if the bombs start to fall in your suite. you can always sneak off to the gym or library to get away too. find a local park with a good sized swing set or where ever you feel most relaxed. sometimes you need a good chill when the artillery is coming down</p>
<p>The thing about the roommate concerns you mentioned- those same issues are equally possibly with one or two roommates. There is always a possibility of things going horribly wrong whether you live with one, two or three other people, so it’s silly to be so worried over those things just because you’ll be living with more people than you thought you would.
That said, I highly doubt things will come to any of that. =] You may not all be best friends, but chances are you will be on friendly, speaking terms. Don’t try to force things and be polite. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I can’t take this seriously because there was a ■■■■■ a little bit back with the screen name “DreamingBig”.</p>
<p>But you can’t worry about that, your best friends are likely going to be people you meet in clubs, IM sports, class, and just chilling outside.</p>
<p>^ Pretty fail ■■■■■ if so… I don’t see what this is going to accomplish.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure this person’s username is a quote from ‘Juno’.</p>
<p>it is not the end of the world. relax and what is going to happen will happen</p>
<p>Yeah, it is a quote from Juno. 
and as for the advice, thanks a lot a lot of it was really helpful. I’m not expecting to be best friends with my roommates, and i know my situation is not the end of the world. I’d just rather have the four of us coexist instead of everyday being constant drama, know what i mean?</p>
<p>I don’t see a problem here.</p>