<p>How many of you non-freshman already have your roommate lined up for next year? </p>
<p>S, who is a sophomore, is having trouble finding someone. Until now I thought he had made a lot of friends. But this seems like a sign he's not really forming any good friendships. Of course he doesn't want to talk to me about it. What do you think?</p>
<p>My roommate will be nobody. After the guy I have now, and my looking at the benefits of a single, I’ll have a room for myself the next fall. I’m currently a sophomore.</p>
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<p>Finding actual friends, rather than acquaintances, is typically a challenge in college. After the early parts of freshman year, people tend to really cluster into social groups; and some or all of those people are the ones that tend to room together after the first year. Perhaps your son is on the wrong end of that phenomenon.</p>
<p>Not really. I’m not sure if I’ll be staying in this house (which sleeps six people) or moving to an apartment. I like the house, but one of my roomies is moving to another part of the area and two of my roomies wanna be closer to campus. I lucked out on getting awesome roommates this year (didn’t know anybody when I moved in) and I fear getting some bad ones if I stick around while everyone else leaves.</p>
<p>I could always do a single. But they’re pricier and pretty lonely, I know I’d be so bored out of my mind if I didn’t have roommates.</p>
<p>I’m about 95% sure my roomie and I will room together next year, since she hasn’t given me a room change form to sign or freaked out over stuff I do. :D</p>
<p>In all seriousness, it’s sometimes really hard to find a roommate, at least for my school, because we don’t do room selection till after spring break, so people keep putting it off till the last second.</p>
<p>If your son has a facebook, could he post a status saying, “Hey, anyone at (insert college) looking for a roommate for next year?” That’s how my roommate and I ended up living together, and, for me, it was much less time consuming or weird than going around asking people in person.</p>
<p>I’ve already signed for a place next year. It wasn’t really a question of who I’d live with, though - I have two best friends and we all wanted to live together.</p>
<p>I’m living with friends now but I won’t be next academic year. I’m a Sophomore, btw. I never believed it when people told me ‘don’t ever live with your friends’. Lesson learned. Rooming with random people next year cus I’m not going through the same mistake twice!</p>
<p>I’m living with the same person I’ve lived with for the last 2.5 years and we are adding my boyfriend to the mix. </p>
<p>He could just go blind. My boyfriend roomed blind this year (as a junior) because his best friend that he was supposed to room with dropped out at the last second and he couldn’t find anyone else. He and his roommate ended up being pretty good friends.</p>
<p>Yeah it seems that people generally don’t wind up with horrible roommates. It just seems that way because really, nobody’s gonna make a thread called “Wow my roommate is perfectly adequate and rather respectful of my space.” </p>
<p>I mean, I lucked out with 4 out of 5 roommates in my house and I didn’t know a single one. And I don’t have the luck o’ the Irish.</p>