<p>So I responded to a post by a girl on my school's Reddit who was looking for a roommate. I already asked her what her interests were and we have pretty much the same interests. I was just wondering what more questions I should ask her? Also, should I try to get together with her in real life to see how she is?</p>
<p>We're both rising sophomores btw</p>
<p>Meeting in person is always good, but you might want to ask general housing questions, like how they feel about overnight guests or parties, whether they’re a morning or a night person, how they feel about cleanliness or household chores, etc.</p>
<p>How does she feel about quiet hours (for sleeping/studying)? Is she big on TV/Movie/video gaming/movies? If yes will they consider ear buds if necessary? Does she like to study in the room? If she has a bf, do them hang out in her room or his?</p>
<p>You should find out what time she goes to sleep, you don’t want someone who is going to be up studying with the light on until 2 am every night.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure everyone had said this already but:
-Sleep/wake up time: If you or her have an alarm it will conflict if you have different class time (unless one of you have earplugs or something.</p>
<p>-Study habits: You’d want to know what manner of studying your roommate is doing. As a raising sophomore you should already know how this is going to go (music? Library? etc.)</p>
<p>-Guests: (2)
Friends: Are people invited over? Overnight(if your dorm allow this)?
Lovers: Do you want to deal with lovers in your room? </p>
<p>-Cleanliness: This is pretty basic. </p>
<p>-Room design: Idk much about ladies side of dorm but I notice they try to match color at least and have lot of stuff so you would like to maximize your room. </p>
<p>That’s all I got.</p>
<p>Stuff to ask about: Sleeping habits, how much time you each spend in the room/do you plan to study there, thoughts on having guests stay over, how much you have friends to your room, night vs morning person, messy vs neat, etc… I would definitely say meet in real life if you can – some people seem fine on paper but are not someone you would want to share a room with. Also – if you do agree to room together, ask if you can arrive at the same time to figure out who gets what space fairly (or if one person arrives first, ask if you can still discuss it when you get there). One of my kids had a roommate move in earlier, and the girl lofted her bed in front of the only window in the room and put her own desk underneath looking out the window, then covered the whole wall that had material you could post stuff on with her items (leaving no room for my kid’s posters, etc). It was very rude, IMHO.</p>