College Roommates, Friends or total strangers? Options

[Princess_sarsa]

I am going to be attending UC davis next fall with four of my good friends from high school, and we have to soon tell the college who we wanna dorm with. i am askign this question to any of yall who have done "the college thing"...should i room with one of my close friends from HS or should i just wing it and geta total stranger?

i duno what to do cuz i dun want our relationship to be strained but i dun wanna have a weird room mate

what should i do?

[bluecrystals]

i am in my first year of college now. last semester and the beginning of this semester, i had a roommate that i was assigned with. me and her were total strangers. it was just weird living with someone for quite some time and not even knowing that person. we hardly talked at all. i guess our personalities didn't click. i would have thought that i would atleast be friends with my roommate when i went to college. we didn't fight, but still i didn't like rooming with her. when she wasn't in class or eating, she was always there. there was times, when i didn't want to go back to my room cause i knew she would be there. yes, it was her room too, but she never went out and did things with her friends. i felt that i had no privacy and was uncomfortable. so i moved out and into a single room this semester. i don't like the idea of sharing such a small space with someone, and especially if you don't even know the person. and also, in one of my friend's situation, her roommate brought her boyfriend in when my friend was sleeping, and started having sex with her boyfriend. my friend woke up and heard them, but pretended that she was sleeping.

both rooming with a friend and rooming with a new person have their pluses and minuses. me and my friend this year were talking about rooming together next year, but i deceided i don't want to. i get irritated real easy and i feel that i might start to not like my friend anymore if i deceided to live with her. even though next year, i could be assigned with a roommate that i am more compatible with, i much rather have my own space so i'm going for a single room. i gotta to work full time this summer to help pay for it.

if you decide to room with one of your friends or someone new, communication is a good key. and you can always change rooms once your there and you feel that it isn't going to work out.