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azurefirem:
--- Quote from: PantsFTW on 03 Mar 2009, 04:28 ---Yeah, my friend Tom went up north to NAU and had a terrible time, like, he would come back down (about a 2 hour drive) every single weekend because there were only 3 types of people there: stoners, hardcore christian religious nuts, and marching band kids. He was none of these, and really disliked his roommate. He's now back in town, and feeling a bit better, but still seems down.
I think the advice I can give is to have a job or something. Something that will help you be independent. I'm not in college, but I have enough friends in college to know that being tethered to your parents because they are paying for you sucks.
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the marching band kids are the sanest of them all~
J-cob9000:
I'm only a freshman in high school but I'll ask this: When you're being assigned a roommate, do they have some sort of way of sorting you according to interests or anything?
Just wondering.
Reed:
At WSU you filled out an online survey and filled out your preference on smoking, drinking, keeping the room clean, stuff like that. However, based on some of the matches I don't think they really paid very close attention to it.
SirJuggles:
Yeah, once you're accepted to uni-owned housing these days you'll usually fill out some sort of survey that deals with study habits, loud music/no loud music, smoking/drinking, opposite gender partners, same gender partners... all the important stuff. I'm extremely happy with my roommate, but I feel terrible for the guy down the hall who got matched up with our local drug dealer.
Also, once you move in you'll probably have to go over with your roommate and sign some kind of contract basically saying you will not kill each other without discussing the situation with an RA first.
Darkbluerabbit:
A guy I knew in high school had a theory that schools intentionally place students with roommates who are nothing like them. In an attempt to get a "normal" (his words) roommate, he filled out his survey with interests like anarchy, satanism, and death metal. His theory turned out to be dead wrong, and he spent the rest of the semester wearing earplugs. He transferred after that, if I remember correctly.
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