My son was a disgusting pig when he lived home and now is neat as a pin. At least when I visit his place it’s neat!
From your lips to my S’s ears!
Meh, having a roommate was never one of my highlights in school. The first one was weird, the second one was freaky and the others were ok. We are not lifelong pals. I did fine making other friends outside of the dorm. Looking back it would’ve been great to have a single.
D wants the roommate experience but the reports of people with boyfriends over and being rude and inconsiderate make her reconsider. It’s her space too and she/we are paying for it.
OT, how do I change my profile picture ?
@STEM2017 Ditto, and for my kids, as engineering students, I think it’s important that they form a wide circle of friends for study groups and potential roommates. As engineering students, a lot of their friends (and themselves) will be doing co-ops, internships, etc., so they need to get used to the idea of rotating through roommates and subleasing.
I am giving up Facebook for Lent, I’ve done it before and it’s a nice break.
As far as the roommate thing, we’ve only dealt with it with D14. In boarding school during 10th grade she was given a girl from Korea who had completely different cultural norms and no one explained American culture to her - so she followed D around, tried to sit next to her at everything and always tried to hold her hand. My D who struggled socially was horrified and asked for help from her prefect and advisor which was not forthcoming. By Christmas D and her roommate stopped speaking to each other and lived in silence. That was the year D’s hair started falling out and she was diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia. Do not underestimate the power of a bad match. D is currently a Junior in college living in athlete housing which consists of an apartment with four single bedrooms and two bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and laundry. The girl who lives closest to her has her boyfriend there frequently and they are loud when the mood strikes. The other two roommates have a former teammate camping on the living room floor - they did ask permission. It’s not perfect but D is now a “roll with the punches kid.” My niece who is a Senior at Dickinson had a high functioning autistic girl as a roommate Freshman year. It was not a great situation and the housing office at school was unhelpful. I thought when D went to boarding school as a Freshman and I still do that the best you can hope for is a friendly, no drama relationship with someone who likes to sleep when you do, everything else is gravy.
@carachel2 That is my dd’s attitude as well. She says just leave your room and go meet people. 
Being a competitive dancer my D17 spends a lot of time with other girls, they all sleep here often, go away to dance camps in the summer… she’s still a weirdo about people in her personal space. We’ll see how it goes. Housing deposits may be a good excuse to help her make a college decision quickly… if she’s in a triple or quad or something she may die.
DS has his own wing of the house (our floor plan is like that) and being a single child so far he didn’t have to share anything. He says he has no problem adjusting in college, but hopefully his future roommates will survive him Stanford has write a letter to your future roommate essay and his essay was funny.
Congrats @Collegecue great news!!
Welcome @ChalkPastel!!
My DS will be sharing a room period! He is an only child and I feel like it is part of the college experience. Depending on where he goes to school we will try to get him the best available dorm with a roommate. I think he is actually looking forward to it, he is pretty tidy so that is a good start.
Can I give up worrying about college for Lent? Haven’t even thought about it but I guess I should since it starts tomorrow :">
DS was selected as a UCSB Regents scholar. Their $6K per year scholarship (as an in-state) is tempting Since he will be a premed we have to figure out UCB vs UCSB GPA dynamics.
That’s fantastic @srk2017 !!!
Congrats on UCSB @srk2017!!
@sdr691 - To change your profile picture, go to the gear/settings icon at the upper right corner of the page and select preferences. It will take you to your account preferences page, where, in the left hand you will see an option to change your profile picture.
A belated welcome to @ChalkPastel !
I did see the thread about the roommate. Her cluelessness and lack of consideration are astonishing.
No Lent here (Jewish).
Congrats @srk2017 on UCSB. I was curious so I just googled UCSB and wowza, that looks like a beautiful place to go to school!!
In all this time during the college search I’ve never looked into the schooling options out west. Occasionally I’ll read about a school I’m not too familiar with and google it to educate myself. I’m glad I looked at UCSB.
@RightCoaster - I still haven’t google UCSB and we didn’t tour any UCs (except we were at UCSD, UCLA and UCB for different events). We did zero college tours and plan is to visit them during spring breaks once all the decisions are out and we have a short list.
Since you all talking about lent, we have one religious occasion in India which has ton of rules.
http://mysabariswamy.blogspot.com/2013/10/niyamalu-rules-for-ayyappa-swamy-deeksha.html
I am not into giving up things, so won’t be doing it 
@srk2017 Ha, I’m one step ahead of you now.
My younger son19 is fascinated with the idea of studying in California. He met a coach from Harvey Mudd at a soccer camp and they hit it off and talked about the school and robotics and soccer and CA weather and living. He might ant to apply to some schools in CA. So, far CA state universities all Out of State students are completely 100% full pay?
I just haven’t put any time into researching his CA options at all. I understand it is also very competitive to get in from out of state too. I’ll have to break out my Fiske guide and google machine and look up some of the schools out there.
I hope my D gets lucky with roommates like I did when I went away to boarding school in 11th grade. The guy I was matched with is basically ‘my brother from another mother’. I guess the matching algorithm did a good job 