<p>I really want to live on campus for my freshman year to get the full college experience. I am looking at Nikes/Hercules for Fall 2012. My question is are roommates randomly assigned to you or do you get to take a personality match type test to pair you up? I'm a little skeptical about sharing a room with someone who I wouldn't know anything about lol. If anyone has had an experiences (good or bad) with random roommates, please share! That'd be great, thanks!</p>
<p>The roommates are randomly assigned. A few years ago they attempted to personality match roommates. The result was that their system actually yielded more conflict than random assignment, so they scrapped the system and decided to just let the universe assign roommates.</p>
<p>■■■■■■■■.com opens in december every year. it’s basically like facebook but your profile has your type of living, activities you do, etc. it’s a really good way to find your room mate if you don’t have someone in mind already. many people i know used this and have become best friends with the people they chose on there. good luck! :)</p>
<p>I really think you should just take the chance and get a random roommate. From experience, when you try to match up with someone, most of the time you expect too much from them, which doesn’t work out well a lot of the times.</p>
<p>And when people say don’t live with friends, listen to that advice.</p>