<p>I freaking got my last choice too… hartley… ***… i thought first years who put carman as first choice almost ALWAYS get it. -_-</p>
<p>On a side note, is there a Dining part?</p>
<p>lol, I put singles as my first 4-5 choices and got a double. I’m not particularly disappointed though, I’m fine with pretty much anything.</p>
<p>I got my first choice(Carman) but I want to switch my roommate. I’m afraid I’ll lose my room if I do though…</p>
<p>Don’t answer if it’s too personal, but why do you want to switch your roommate? How well do you know him after less than 5 hours of the housing assignments being released? </p>
<p>If you have a legitimate reason, Housing may switch it for you. But what basis are you going on now that makes you want to switch? Unless he emailed you a death threat or something really condescending or something…</p>
<p>If you want to request a roommate at this point, I think its too late. Tough luck =</p>
<p>I second the question: why would you want to change your roommate? I don’t view that as a personal question. Is it someone you know from high school? If not, what kind of conclusions are you drawing?</p>
<p>^^ facebook is a powerful tool…</p>
<p>Fastfood, I may be dense on this topic, but why would facebook affect one’s view of a future roommate? To me, college is, in part, learning about, and learning from, others who are different. How can one draw lifestyle and compatibility conclusions from facebook? More importantly, how can one conclude that incompatibility exists from viewing another’s facebook profile?</p>
<p>I’m on the 8th (or 7th) floor of Hartley in a double. I think I might be one of only a handful who picked that as one of their top choices…</p>
<p>pbr,
While I agree with what you said from a philosophical point of view, my assumption is that facebook could be used to gain information about someone’s race and/or sexual orientation (or any other commonly prejudiced qualities).</p>
<p>I guess I’m too much of a tolerant liberal. I hope that race and sexual orientation ultimately become irrelevant in deciding the “fitness” of a roommate. My lilly white, liberal, protestant son from way out west and I are pleased that his roommate is an orthodox, conservative Jew from New York City.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t your reaction be exactly neutral with regards to the religion and origin of the roommate? Isn’t “pleased” just as bad as “displeased” if your self imposed goal is complete irrelevance?</p>
<p>I’m fooling around. I’m a Midwestern liberal myself.</p>
<p>I’m pleased because the experience will expand his horizons. (I don’t believe he knows any orthodox Jews from NYC.)</p>
<p>Don’t worry, I don’t take public websites too seriously. I sincerely hope, however, that myopia was not the cause of the poster’s discomfort with his/her new roommate.</p>
<p>guys…</p>
<p>I’m chill. I respect Fastfood. I remain curious about the poster’s discomfort with his/her roommate assignment, but it’s not my life.</p>
<p>oh yeah pbr and I were just playing around. I would never try to disrespect someone with honest progressive intentions. </p>
<p>watch it just be a simple and goofy answer…</p>
<p>I don’t really have a legitimate reason. I mean… I may sound superficial, but I’d like to get to know my roommate before school starts. She doesn’t have a facebook and I doubt she’ll be checking her CU email this summer. I did email her on it to introduce myself–but if she doesn’t reply I’m not looking forward to the whole surprise factor come August.</p>
<p>Algernon,</p>
<p>Hartley was my second choice.
But I got my first choice instead, at Furnald:)</p>
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<p>this is a ridiculous argument, not having facebook doesn’t say anything about anyone, some of my best friends don’t have facebook because it is a distraction etc etc. There’s no way they’d allow you switch roommates also. they might switch you early on, but then you have serious adverse selection (you’ll be stuck with roommates that others have moved away from quickly), so you’ll get only the worst bunch. </p>
<p>Finally, and this is important, getting to know someone over a few emails in the summer does not give you a realistic impression of what your year with them will be like. My roomy frosh year was fcking weird over emails, he was kinda weird to me for half of frosh year and at the end we became best friends, till today he is one of best friends on campus, i would not trade that for anything, I still regularly have dinner with him, share personal stuff etc etc. </p>
<p>You might love your roommate over email and hate her one week in, or the opposite, there is no correlation. you are looking for assurances, when there positively isn’t any. I think you should just bite the bullet, stop this frantic search for comfort, and go into college with an open mind, ready to take risks.</p>
<p>so if i wanted john jay but i got a wallach single on the 8th floor, what am i in for?</p>