<p>I’m a freshman and in my fall semester I didn’t have a roommate. I just recieved an e-mail from the housing department, and they assigned me a roommate for the spring semster. I was pretty angry at first because I was so use to having my own room. Do you have any tips or good stories? Even though this sucks, I’m going to give her a welcome gift (for first good impression). Then take her out to this japanese restuarant that I go to all the time.</p>
<p>um… make sure she likes japanese food first?</p>
<p>Yeah; I would make sure she likes japanese food first b/c some peoples stomachs can’t tolerate certain types of food (Mexican, Japanese, Chinese).</p>
<p>Did the housing department give you any of her contact info? If they did, contact her by e-mail or, if possible, call her. She’ll appreciate the gesture.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>I wish I was your roommate.</p>
<p>I’d eat so much food… :d</p>
<p>Your roommate can either suck, or can absolutely rule, or both. (generally both, I find). </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I will get a roomate this spring as well. The assigment will probably come within the next two weeks. I hope he is a cordial person, etc. I would say call her and tell what sort of things you brought to the room, such as tv, mini fridge, so there are no dulicates. A gift is a good idea as well. Is the person new at the school? If so, take a walk and show here around.</p>
<p>See if there is any contact information available for her. It would be great if you could call or e-mail before the semester starts. And I think it’s really nice that you want to take her out to dinner, but maybe you should give her a couple of choices since you don’t really know her taste yet.</p>
<p>You and your roommate should work out some sort of contract or agreement on how you want/need to live, especially in regards to visitors, studying, cleaning, etc. From experience I know that’s important. You both need to make your opinions on those very clear up front to hopefully avoid some ugly fights later on.</p>
<p>Definitely try to set some rules. Don’t be too overeager to spend every moment with that person…you’ll probably get sick of her. The most important thing is to try to get along with her, even if you might not like her. Don’t get your hopes too high? Generally I find with roommates is that, unless they are psycho (very rare), or your personalities really don’t match (uncommon), usually you get to be pretty good friends just because you spend a lot of time together and get to know each other more.</p>
<p>set rules, and dont be afraid to stand by them…my roomate kept having her boyfriend over or would go to the nearby college he was attending and he would leave at 6am or she would come back and bang around and it was horrible, and then she would complain because she goes to bed at 10pm every night, but i have wayy too much work to be able to do that, and see complained when i came back late from the library…she was getting ****ed because i was coming in late from STUDYING when she was constantly waking me up for PERSONAL reasons and i never get stuff done when her bf is over so i was constantly moving to accomidate her, and i never got any decent sleep…this quickly got changed before finals, and WILL NOT be happening this semester</p>
<p>SET DOWN RULES! for both of you! and for your own sakes!</p>
<p>PS- i have a 3.2 in engineering…she has a 2.6 in education…obviously someone is right here</p>
<p>facebook is a good source of contact info.</p>
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<p>Sounds like my old roommate. Completely horrible! I sleep at around 2-4. I realized the most important thing after that is setting the bed time… THEN light tolerence/sound tolerence/filth tolerence/whatever else. If you get the 4 things down you’ll get along</p>
<p>i was just upset because her reasons for coming/going at really late/early hours were to accomidate herself and her boyfriend, whereas mine were for academic purposes…she also complained right before finals about how much time i was spending studying (yes, she did) and then stated “all of my finals are easy so i don’t need to study, so you don’t either because your classes cant be harder than mine” then she complained when she did bomb her finals, and i did very well…crazy</p>
<p>but yes, i would, first day, set down 5 things that you want/expect from your roomate, such as visitors/cleanliness/food/study hours, ect…then exchange lists, and comprimise, then set up some “rules”, but more like guidelines (theres some movie where a guy goes "they’re not rules, they’re more like guidelines) im gonna do that for this semester, no doubt…i would also give it a few weeks and re-do the list, just in case things change…you’ll get probably criticism about stuff you do normally, but it will help, as im hopin it will help my siuation because i love my roomate, but our habits are nothing alike and hers cross the line sometimes</p>
<p>I just found out my roommate was dismissed from college due to his 0.0 GPA (his in a frat, very lazy, didn’t attend ANY of his finals), but has a 90% chance of returning. He wrote a letter of continuance, so yea, I’m thrilled he’ll be back (sarcasm).</p>
<p>Hey, I have an update on my whole roommate situation! I received information from her from my e-mail. I’ve emailed,texted, and called but no response! I did all of these only ONCE!! Frankly, I’m a bit confused because wouldn’t anyone be curious what the person is going to be like since you’re going to be living with them. I know it sounds crazy but I did give her my myspace, number, xanga, and facebook so she can see what I’m like.</p>
<p>It is possible that she is out of the country or something. Give her a couple days, and call again.</p>
<p>… how did you text her? Did the school give you her cell number?</p>
<p>Advice? </p>
<p>Commute now before its too late! I was told that I wouldn’t have a roomate while I was doing summer research, but then as the time was getting closer, I found out that I was going to have not one, but TWO roomates, so I said ‘forget this’ and just commuted the whole summer. Even though the housing was free, I wasn’t about to share such a small space with two other people.</p>
<p>Nerdygirl, has naything happened since then? Frankly, I was a spring admit and was disappointed when my roomate didn’t call me to introduce himself. From what I understand , it is common curtesy for a current roomate to call the other person up and welcome him/her. Anyways, you did everything you could. IN this day and age, people communicate via email so if your roomate hasn’t replied yet, I guess something is worng with her. I am an international student and was out of the country when I got the assigment, so what soccerguy mentioned is possible.</p>
<p>Update:
Ok, it’s official I don’t have a roommate this semester I have a single room once again. Thanks for your advice :D</p>