<p>Hey guys</p>
<p>I might be attending ucla next fall and I was wondering what the preferences are for picking roomates. I heard you have options such as "preferred bedtime" and "social or not." Someone even told me race. I hella dont believe that...</p>
<p>Know of anymore?
thanks!</p>
<p>Also, which res hall is the most social? Can transfer students pick any res hall?</p>
<p>Go with halls for social interaction. (read housing thread for suite/plaza/hall breakdown). Not sure about transfer choice.</p>
<p>Only bits for my year, probably still the same are:</p>
<p>Bedtime
Cleanliness</p>
<p>Also smoking, i.e. are you a smoker / do you mind living with a smoker or not.</p>
<p>There is one about drinking as well.</p>
<p>For the most part, I think those preference things aren’t really even looked at. My friend who is a smoker/drinker/up later person, got the most square early sleeping roommates first year. I think everyone should learn to get to know other types of people, so it doesn’t bother me.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should really take those roommate preferences too seriously. I’ve had roommates that were the exact opposite of everything they claimed to be on the housing application. </p>
<p>My first year, I selected low noise, no alcohol, no smoking, and sleep at 12. What did I get? Two drinkers (drug users at that!) who blared the television to an unimaginable volume (for which the RA told us to turn the volume down many, many times), slept at 4 am, and woke up at 12 or later the next day. There were many days when they passed out at parties and came back covered in vomit. I also had to tolerate them as they invited a bunch of friend over to watch porn tapes…</p>
<p>What may possess them to checkbox the exact opposite of what they were? They idealized themselves to be quiet, studious, with a stable academic career. Ultimately, they gave in to their crazy college temptations.</p>
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Sometimes they do that because the parent is looking over their shoulder or telling them what to fill in on the questions instead of doing what they should do and leaving it up to the student and not ‘checking it’.</p>
<p>My kid’s roommates were a pretty good match. The things to keep in mind are that -</p>
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<li>The parent might be filling out the form either directly or telling the kid what to write - something they shouldn’t do.</li>
<li>The kid might be answering the way they think they ‘should’ answer instead of being truthful with themselves.</li>
<li>A lot of students change once they get to college - especially on the bedtime front. A lot of people who in HS went to bed at a certain time end up shifting way later in college.</li>
<li>Some students change in other ways after they get to college such that their answers no longer apply.</li>
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<p>I don’t think the form asks about ‘race’ as it shouldn’t.</p>
<p>I ****ing hate housing - those applications/surveys are crap. </p>
<p>With me, I put, no drinking, no smoking, bed before 10, super organized (and Ive lived up to all of them)…
My roomates - one drinks, one smokes pot, both don’t go to bed unless its past 2 and don’t wake up till at least 11, filthy and crap littered everywhere.<br>
I’m sooooo glad this year is almost over.</p>
<p>@binks
It does get better when you room with just one roommate. You get to negotiate on a level playing field instead of having your other two roommates gang up on you.</p>
<p>Also, its better that they have surveys than none at all even if they don’t work. You could at least stick it up to your roommates and say, “You said you don’t smoke.”</p>
<p>^^^ I know, my mom had the same problem when she went to UCSD in the 70’s. Apparently her roomate’s parents made her put all of the “good info” so that her roomate (my mom) would be a good influence on her.</p>
<p>Oh damn. Thanks for your answers guys. I was just hoping that I could accurately choose a good roomate that matched well with me. a55hole roomates can ruin everything.</p>
<p>Hopefully they’ll let us switch out if they are terrible.</p>
<p>You also set up roommate contracts with the help of your RA when you first move in. Basically set up bottom line guidelines which you can complain to your RA about if they fail to follow them</p>
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<p>Unless you get a lame RA who is JUST as bad as your roommates/floor. My RA first year should have won the ‘worse RA EVER’ award (he got fired in june of last year, by the way)… he let residents do anything and everything. also, when we had the roommate “contracts”, he always sided with my other two roommates on most of the matters (just because they gave him food and always chit chatted with him… believe it or not). I guess I should be kinda thankful for the roommates I had last year, judging from these other posts… still, so glad second year you choose your roommates!!</p>
<p>i know this won’t work for everyone but my daughter and her freshman roommate picked each other on a UCLA freshman Facebook site. It was a Facebook group for her entering class and people just started chatting and getting to know each other. They decided together to request each other for roommates on the housing forms, went to the same orientation so they could meet and hang out a bit at night and kept in touch during the summer. They ended up in a triple with a random 3rd person but they all got along very well. My daughter and her roommate are now sharing an apt together off campus and plan to continue being roommates until they graduate. Don’t know if there is a Facebook group for the class of '14 but you could check.</p>
<p>ohh that sounds like a great idea!! I’ll look around on facebook, thanks!</p>
<p>I didn’t know so many people raged at people sleeping in, this is news to me. How does someone sleeping until 12 affect you in any way unless they are snoring super loud?</p>
<p>Its not about sleeping in, but sleeping late. Its hard to sleep when your roomate sleeps at 4am every night because theyre moving around, shutting doors and everything. Or if they always come back drunk. </p>
<p>I sleep really late once in a while, but if my roomate did that every single night, id get kinda ****ed.</p>
<p>so apparently p i s s is a bad word now? haha</p>