University Freshers, anyone new to the uni life? Options

[S-Majere]

I had my first Freshers' Day today at my university. Got to be one of the most independant things I've ever done.

Walking down to the station, catching the train into the city and then walking to my campus. It's still cheaper than living in uni accomodation though

What it does mean is that me and my boyfriend are now at separate universities.:(

Is anyone else new to uni, or has left their college recently and looking for work/further education?

[*karmakiller*]

I'm not in college right now, so yeah flame me for posting here but I'm kinda scared to do the college thing, I'm not going to lie. I plan on going out of state, which means I'll be 100% on my own, and I don't want to live in a dorm.

To you guys new to college and living on campus, how do they chose who you end up with?

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

I'm not in college right now, so yeah flame me for posting here but I'm kinda scared to do the college thing, I'm not going to lie. I plan on going out of state, which means I'll be 100% on my own, and I don't want to live in a dorm.

To you guys new to college and living on campus, how do they chose who you end up with?

The dorms are fine; it'd be a lot harder to meet people if you didn't live in one. When you say you're planning on going out of state, are you talking public or private? Because meeting people is harder at a public school, because so many people are there with high school friends.

I know here the roommate assignments, if you didn't request someone, were 100% random. But at some schools, like GA Tech, there's a short survey to fill out, and they might actually take your answers into consideration. Theirs was only four questions long, though, so I don't know how much that helped. However, a lot of schools have websites where you can fill out a more detailed questionnaire and try to arrange to find a roommate online that way. There's a lot of facebook groups like that too; I found the UGA facebook "Dawg House" group to be a lot more helpful than the actualy "Dawg House" thing to find people you'd want to room with, because since it's not a school sanctioned thing, they can ask if you drink, etc. The questions in that survey were better in general, really. That's how I found my roommate. I guess it worked pretty well...at first I thought it didn't because I went through all that trouble and we weren't really hanging out at all, but we're talking more and getting along better now. At least our living habits are pretty compatible, which is the most important thing. It's have sucked to live with some ultra-conservative Christian girl who goes to bed at 10 every night (I know a couple of people who have roommates like that), or worse some clone of a sorority girl, but a lot of my friends get along really well with their random roommates. It's not something you should worry about too much, because most things can be worked out, and if they can't, you can probably request a change. I know some people doing that right now too, but their roommates weren't even completely random (long story as to how that's working out so badly).