BicycleTree said:
Listen...
Ah, never mind.
No roommate. In Fall River I was sooo tired all the time because the noise of traffic going past meant I always slept lightly. How much worse would it be with a roommate? I think, much worse.
{Disclaimer: BT, the following is not advice.
Just food for thought.}
Depends if they snore or not
, and whether they even spend much time in the room. You would just have to work it out with your roommate that you need quiet time and quiet places to study. If they want to watch TV or chat, they can go to their friends' rooms or to the lounge, that's what they're there for. My favorite roommate in college was one I barely knew when we agreed to room together (she was a senior and I was a junior and we both had other roommate arrangements fall through, so decided to room together rather than get stuck with a freshman roommate). We got to be decent friends, but pretty much each had our own friends and our own things to do, so from the time we got up in the morning until after dinner, we didn't even see each other, and some nights we'd sit and talk a bit, but most of the time, if we were in the room, it was to study or sleep. The year before that, my roommate was always at her boyfriend's apartment, so it was almost like having a single...it wouldn't have been bad except I couldn't stand her boyfriend when he came over with her, but they didn't spend much time around, so I just made that my time to do other things when they were both there. My freshman roommate was only annoying because of her hairspray fumes! Oh, and because she could NOT walk quietly in the morning, so as soon as she woke up for the shower, I was awake too. But then I could hit the shower when she started doing her hair and avoid the hairspray before it choked me. I eventually gained assertiveness over the course of that year and asked her to do the hairspray in the bathroom. Then everyone else complained she was choking them in the bathroom in the morning, but it wasn't my problem anymore.
I think it would be silly to give up going to the school you really want to attend just because you need to have a roommate for a semester or year. If you can, try to request being roomed with another transfer student or upperclassman so you have a more mature roommate. It can be tough being a junior rooming with a freshman who doesn't yet have the maturity to buckle down and study and respect a roommate.
If you do wind up with a roommate whose activities interfere with your ability to study, there are residence life staff at every university, and they can help you resolve the problems, possibly even by reassigning you to a new roommate who is more compatible. I used to work in residence life while in grad school, and it wasn't too uncommon to have a couple sets of roommates come in complaining they were incompatible and couldn't work things out, so we'd take the two studious ones and put them together and the two party animals, and stick them together, and everyone was happy.
If they send you a questionnaire about your living preferences, be completely honest on it (if you must have the window open or closed while sleeping, tell them, if you must have absolute silence when studying, tell them, if you want to listen to classical music while studying, tell them, if you are a morning person and then need to be asleep by 10 pm, tell them, if it would really piss you off to have your roommate inviting his girlfriend into your room, tell them, etc.). All of this helps them match you with someone who will be best suited to share a room with you.
Could you at least tough it out one semester until you have the minimum credits required to meet the residency requirement? It would seem a shame to give up attending the school that best meets your academic needs over needing a roommate.
Congrats on the grades...keep up the good work!
