<p>can you make requests such as non-smoking roomate?</p>
<p>I don't know if that's a criteria in housing applications. I'm sure if you find out that your roommate smokes once school begins then you can request a room change. But since it doesn't quite ask anywhere on the app whether you smoke or not, the school doesn't know which students smoke.</p>
<p>I can be wrong on this, however, I don't remember the app too well. Btw, you can't smoke within 300 feet from any building on campus anyway, so I don't know if it would be too big of a problem..</p>
<p>Isn't it 20 feet from every building, not 300...</p>
<p>when do we do all the roomate and dorm stuff? god i'm so behind on all this...</p>
<p>it's 20 ft, ppl smoke exactly 20 feet from my dorm and we can't do anything about it. I don't think you can request a non-smoking roommate b/c how would the administration know who smokes? You can, however, IM/call your roommate and chat and find out if he/she smokes. You can switch rooms b4 school starts too, so you'll never actually have to see him/her in person.</p>
<p>hey, and also can i request a roommate of my own race, or of my own major?</p>
<p>you could request a substance free dorm...that way you won't have a roomate who stinks of smoke and whose clothes have that stench that smokers are completely unaware of. Plus, smokers are addicts and they frequently will accuse people of being unfair if they simply want the rules enforced. They need to justify their habit as being reasonable.</p>
<p>in addition to that, is it possible to request specific roommates? i'm doubtful, but it's worth asking :D</p>
<p>yes you can request specific roommates, i read it somewhere on davis housing</p>
<p>Are you sure that they don't ask on the application? I remember on my UCSB housing application, there was a Y/N question "I am a smoker"</p>
<p>I haven't gotten my housing app yet...was I supposed to?</p>
<p>I think my daughter's housing application was done on line about this time last year. I think the deposit was due in May last year...hope that helps.</p>
<p>"you could request a substance free dorm...that way you won't have a roomate who stinks of smoke and whose clothes have that stench that smokers are completely unaware of. Plus, smokers are addicts and they frequently will accuse people of being unfair if they simply want the rules enforced. They need to justify their habit as being reasonable."</p>
<p>Ermm.. hate to break it to you but when I was a freshman I lived in the substance free building (by choice).. it turned out to be the substance filled building because other people were put in there because they were under 18 at the time (and legally they couldn't do substances anyway). It was horrible.. people smoked in the stairway, the boucanies, the patio outside the door.. and not just cigarettes. And oh the joy I felt when I'd open the door in the morning to find a pile of vomit on/infront of my door. (I hated the dorms SOOO much)</p>
<p>Sorry you had that experience Pearl, I have been in a substance free dorm at Davis fairly often during this year and never smelt smoke. I have heard stories of people who fail to live up to their agreement are shipped out quite quick...It wouldn't surprise me if this type of thing is dependant on who are the RAs in charge.</p>
<p>People who smoke should quit before they annoy others with their diseased addiction. You can talk about GPAs and SAT scores but in the end, it is what you do with yourself that will determine how smart you really are.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if people's experience in the substance free building was/is better than mine was. For the majority of the year we didn't even have an RA because they kept quitting because the residents were too mean to them. (Actually, one of our RA's was fired for drinking with residents in the building.) So yeah.. I'm sure the administration wasn't too thrilled with the problem and decided to crack down in future years by making sure RA's reported people that didn't live up to the agreement.</p>
<p>Some students may have signed up at the insistance of their parents, but the substance free dorm is pretty much that, and their are many 17 year old students who come to Davis and live at other dorms. Of course most dorm residents are under 21 and are not supposed to drink...a few residents of the substance free dorm do, but if there is a hint of intoxication they risk being evicted from the dorm. It is depressing to think that college space is wasted on people who put partying over education...when I think of the applicants who were not accepted and what they might have done with these opportunities.</p>
<p>!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I personally beleive it is depressing also... UCD has been my dream school since the day my family introduced me to college. I've gained respect for over 20 of my family members who grew up and attended UCD (all who used there time at UCD very wisely). To know there are people who were admitted and will not fully use their oppurtunites gives me a kick in the behind.</p>