Roommates

I'm going to warn you now. Just because you answered a bunch of questions about yourself, it doesn't mean you're going to get a roommate that gets along with you. For my school we had a few questions:

1. What time do you go to bed?

2. What time do you wake up?

3. What type of music do you listen to?

4. How neat are you?

5. Do you drink?

6. Do you smoke?

This is not enough questions to get a roommate that will get along with you but in all honesty it makes it easier for the school to place you with someone.

I will tell you this. PEOPLE LIE. Just because someone says they don't drink DO NOT BELIEVE IT. Maybe his or her parents were standing behind them when he or she was filling out the form.

The only thing you can do is get along with your roommate.

I will say my roommate was horrible. Sometimes people are just extremely unlucky and get people that they cannot get along with. You cannot change your roommate assignment and hope for the best. However, my roommate did not go to bed after midnight, did not wake up between 8 - 10am, did not listen to dance/pop, was not neat, and drank. The only think we reached an agreement on is that we both did not smoke.

Honestly I will say I was a little worried considering the fact that she had tattoos everywhere, not to be hateful against people with tattoos.

My roommate just had so many issues. The main reason being that she was extremely uptight. She would sleep at 10pm, get up at noon the next day, and ate foods that just made the room smell horrible. Not only that but she brought a TV which she used to watch on a daily basis for many hours, and bring friends over for most of the evening. If anything it was just unbearable. I spent most of the year outside my room. Not only that but she could also not sleep with any lights on so after 10pm, there's no way to study in the room I'M paying for.

Lets just say that by the end of the year I was extremely sick and tired of her attitude and after a shouting match that woke up the entire hall, we talked to our RA, the supervisor. In leimans terms she told my roommate to stop being so uptight because she can't have everything her way. Doesn't pay to be Daddy's Little Princess.

There have also been MANY MANY MANY other unfortunate pair-ups and by the end of the year you either are OKAY with your roommate or don't like them. (At least that's how it was with my hall, and people I knew).

The best you can do is either deal with it, ignore it, or talk it out.

I will say that people usually don't change, so talking it out will only resolve the issue for maybe a week, maybe a month tops.

It will help to talk to your roommate before hand. The assignments usually come out during the last few weeks of summer and so once you know, it will be wise to talk to them. You can settle some of the issues, such as the ACTUAL time they wake up and go to bed, who is bringing what, and tell him or her a little bit about yourself. :]

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OTHER ROOMMATE STORIES:

One roommate pair in my hall; I felt so bad for him. The roommate threw up and didn't clean it up. He went to class and just left it there.

Another room in my hall was a triple. So two of the roommates got along very well but the third roommate was a third wheel, in a sense. They wouldn't even let her be with them because she was "different".

My friend's roommate would say that everyone has to be back by 1am, or they can't come in the room.

Another triple, the guy used to sit outside his window and smoke away.

There will always be roommate rivalry and the person you're paired up will most likely not get along with you. In rare situation will you find a roommate that you can say is your best friend.