Trying to find a roommate sophomore year?

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<p>So, although I'm not 100% sure about this yet, and my roommate and I haven't talked this over, I am not so sure that I want to room with my current roommate again next year. Before the start of freshman year we met on Facebook through mutual friends, got along, and decided to room together. We get along pretty well most of the time, have a lot in common, etc. Here's the problem, she's EXTREMELY messy and possibly one of the least considerate people I've ever met. If it wasn't for that I'd probably room with her again, but I'm having serious second thoughts whenever I walk into the room and see the mess on her side of the room that doesn't move unless I ask her to clean 100 times. Whenever I want her to move something, put something away, or clean something, I have to tell her a million times and feel like a mother doing it. It bothers me so much that I have to remind her to do the most random things EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. because she's so lazy she won't do anything unless asked a ton of times. There are crumbs, piece of food, orange peels, and whatever other crap you can imagine under and around her bed, and honestly, I'm so sick and tired of having to deal with it.</p>

<p>I've asked a few other friends of mine (not all yet), and all of them seem to be rooming with their current roommates again. A lot of my other friends are upperclassmen and/or in sororities (which means that they already have people to room with) I want to ask some of my aquantainces, but am kind of afraid that they have already decided on who to room with as well. </p>

<p>As far as random roommates go, my friend told me that the people that often go with random roommates sophomore year are the people that weren't able to find people to room with in school for reasons such as them being really strange people/bad roommates in general. I don't think there'll be many people in the pool who are like me (good, considerate roommates), which is why I'm hesitant to do something like that.</p>

<p>What should I do??? I literally have a month until housing applications are due!!</p>

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<p>When I met my 2 roommates (formerly my suitemates back in the dorms, and they were each other’s roommates. We now live in an apartment together), we did it through randomization, and it turned out that the 3 of us had a lot of things in common. My suitemates also found out that between both of them, they had similar lifestyles and personalities, from owning dogs to having brothers to having the same taste in music and TV shows. So getting a random roommate isn’t always bad–I happened to luck out. If you don’t want to go with the random roommate route, you could always apply to get a single.</p>

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<p>How has it been going? If no progress, I say go with ranomization. Should be interesting, at least.</p>