Finding a roommate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours met someone at admitted students day and kept in touch after. Decided to room together later and it has worked out.

This is what our DC did as well.

[Anonymous]

Two kids in college. First kid found roommate on social media. Roommate turned out to be a complete psycho and left college in December.

Second kid went random and was just assigned one. Roommate had her boyfriend living in the room from day 1. Kid changed rooms within a month.

[Anonymous]

My son is a freshman. He just filled out the roommate survey and was paired with a great roommate. They are planning on living together next year. He was lucky.

[Anonymous]

I have heard the matches based upon the survey sent out by Res Life tend to work better than those based upon social media.

[Anonymous]

DS was matched by residence life. The questionnaire was pretty basic and focused mostly on living, sleep, and study habits. Socially they seemed mismatched at first (DS is very outgoing and roommate is more introverted) but they both tried to be good living partners. By winter break they were hanging out socially as well, and now they are good friends and going to be roommates again next year.

[Anonymous]

DS always wanted to be tidy, but didn’t quite get the hang of it young. Lied on the questionnaire and claimed neat freak, thinking this would force her to self discipline.

Interestingly, her match had lied about this one characteristic too and they were a great fit They were wildly messy to start, and cleaned it up by graduation.

Lovely girls, both of them. When each copped to the mutual lie, they laughed and laughed. It all worked out.