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havoks wrote:Stringer wrote:havoks wrote:i lived with my girlfriend for 1 week before we broke up -- she moved out, leaving the insane rent for me to pay alone. we got back together a month later and we still live apart. at least i got the comfy bed. Why would you pay the rent alone? If she signed the lease also she was responsible for her half. trying to make her pay the other half was pointless -- she ended up getting a place of her own which is more than half of what she would've had to pay if we still lived together. no point risking souring relations again because of money, we both already suffered from it (of course, then again, her parents make tons of money and can afford to pay for her living, whereas my parents dont and ive been on my own). Are you kidding me? You said in another post your budget for food is $25/month and you're letting some girl walk away from hundreds of dollar per month in rent? Ridiculous.
-Stringer
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Stringer wrote:havoks wrote:Stringer wrote:havoks wrote:i lived with my girlfriend for 1 week before we broke up -- she moved out, leaving the insane rent for me to pay alone. we got back together a month later and we still live apart. at least i got the comfy bed. Why would you pay the rent alone? If she signed the lease also she was responsible for her half. trying to make her pay the other half was pointless -- she ended up getting a place of her own which is more than half of what she would've had to pay if we still lived together. no point risking souring relations again because of money, we both already suffered from it (of course, then again, her parents make tons of money and can afford to pay for her living, whereas my parents dont and ive been on my own). Are you kidding me? You said in another post your budget for food is $25/month and you're letting some girl walk away from hundreds of dollar per month in rent? Ridiculous. the 25/month on food was only during this last term -- she's not in school this term (coop), but when she was, i used to eat her food, and she paid when we ate out a lot 
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I applied to a double dorm-style room. I'm not too worried about the kind of roommate I'll get. I'm pretty optimistic about that. But if I did end up with some creep or rude person, hmm, dunno what I'd do. Oh well, guess I'll leave it up to fate. Not much I can do right now! 
Honours English Major/History Minor, York '12Stong Rez
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I ended up going to a school where I didn't know a soul. I was TERRIFIED of meeting my roomies- there were 4 of us in an apartment. As it turned out, I totally loved them all. We got along GREAT with minimal issues (ie the dishes) and three of us are still living together.
I think (excluding the crazies that are out there) that most people moving into residence are looking to make friends. So even if the person you are rooming with is crazy, you'll meet great people on your floor or in your building.
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are you staying in 90U at uofOttawa? your description matches it like identically... if so, no sweat, even if you get a bum roomie you'll still have your own room to retreat to. i'm trying to get into that rez too... we can hope for good roommates together! lol
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Usually a university tries to match similar people together to cause the least amount of frustration.
That didn't happen in my case. I guess I didn't get lucky.
My room mate acts a lot younger then me, even though she is a year older then I am. We didn't have any fights, but there were months at a time that we didn't talk. It didn't seem to bother either of us at all though, as we were two different mind sets, and i was never in my room except to sleep or get my books for next class.
If you really want to have a best friend living with you, you have to know who you want to live with and ask to be with them.
Another thing to remember, is that cultural differences can cause frustration too. I hate to say it, but cultural habits and food choices can bother people. My room mate has Indian in her background, and sometimes ate food in our room that smelled so strong that I couldn't breath. My friend had a Chinese room mate, and the kid made rice 24/7, I'm not complaining about that though, as it meant that I could always go get a bowl and have something to eat even when the cafeteria was closed.
The nice thing about dorms is that even if you have a bad match for a room mate, most dorms have common lounges, and other places to go instead of sitting in your room. I found having an open-door policy on my floor meant that any open door meant I could go in and hang out/study with fellow students, and I made a lot of different friends that way.
Also, another note, if you have problems with something your room mate is doing, remember that your living together, and if you don't address the issue quickly, and in a nice way, it will fester, and may cause more tension (something you don't need on top of your class load).
~*~The Best-est Part About University Is The 4 Month Long Summers~*~
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lol...rice...sry that just cracks me up 
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ScienceBoy12 wrote:daonenonly wrote:I think I would be able to tolerate my roommate as long as he doesnt do sumthin weird like sleep naked or sumthin...that would be very very disturbing. LOL!!! lol? that is freaky...
plan on going to U of Ottawa for honours and co-op in chemistry.
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I think it is just normal to be afriad...*I am* But im not worried about it... university is going to be a great experience even if me and my roommate don't talk... i think... 
plan on going to U of Ottawa for honours and co-op in chemistry.
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urg my roommates are such slobs..
we have agreed on this cleaning schedule...and i have done my parts but they havent...but whatever ill just dont do theirs XD
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I think it's better to not have any room-mates at all. I'm sure you have friends who might seem like dream room-mates, but beware quirks you may not be aware of. It doesn't take long for an obsession for neatness or recycling to go from endearing to repulsive once you live with someone all the time.
Disclaimer : I am OCD-level neat.
McGill Engineering 2010
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I'm not in uni yet, but I'm excited that when eventually I am, I'll have a roomie. Definitely going to apply for one...
I'm a little worried though, about having some creepy person paired with me. I don't want to even stay in hotels because who knows whos in the next room?
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Flag wrote:I'm not in uni yet, but I'm excited that when eventually I am, I'll have a roomie. Definitely going to apply for one...
I'm a little worried though, about having some creepy person paired with me. I don't want to even stay in hotels because who knows whos in the next room? LOL Why would you care who's next door?
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I had a pretty bad experience with the random placement. I'd recommend going in with someone you know. That being said, most people got along just fine, and my roommate and I made it work. We just...never spoke. Sad.
UWO MTP 2011
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^ lol; are single rooms for one person? So that means i won't have a roommate right?!
~WLU/UW Business and Math Double Degree- Class of 2013~
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^Correct.
McGill Arts '12
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^ Right. Single room has no roommate. I requested that but for the most part I believe people get doubles. At Western for sure. But I think at Laurier you're guaranteed your choice with a certain avg. I'd go for single, but keep your door open and go and meet people!
UWO MTP 2011
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martin wrote:Flag wrote:I'm not in uni yet, but I'm excited that when eventually I am, I'll have a roomie. Definitely going to apply for one...
I'm a little worried though, about having some creepy person paired with me. I don't want to even stay in hotels because who knows whos in the next room? LOL Why would you care who's next door? Because they might be psycho axe murderers running from the law, and if the cops came they'd break into my room and use me as a human shield? More like because I'm a little paranoid. I know I wouldn't want a child mollester in the room next to me.
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guelph is scary.. u dont even fill out a form they just pair u with a random person 
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bigbadsheep wrote:mynameismattgotmlgo wrote:bigbadsheep wrote:mynameismattgotmlgo wrote:bigbadsheep wrote:I wonder, if you say you are a messy person, would they pair you up with another messy person??? On my Western rez thing, i put 4/5 for cleanliness with 5 being really messy. Does that mean if I get a roommate that he'll be a 4 as well and our room will end up an 8??? LOL Haha. Yeah, I never thought of it that way. I guess that is how it works. Nevertheless, I can't see them basing the roommate selections too highly on that questionnaire. Most people just end up putting themselves somewhere in the middle of each spectrum anyway. And I knew quite few pairings in which a completely messy person was paired with a neat freak. Anyhow, many of us had our speculations that they (who is they? I don't know) might do a lot of the selections based on the pictures taken during SAO. Let's face it: you can tell with reasonable certainty whether two people will get along or not simply based on how they look. What really got us (the guys I usually played poker with in residence) thinking about that is how the "random" roommate pairings tended to be racially homogeneous. A white guy being placed with another white guy isn't anything too surprising, but the fact that there were so many East Asians placed with other East Asians relative to the more likely alternative (an East Asian being placed with a white) made us think. We could be completely talking out of our butts, but it is something we noticed. So where does that leave me as the rare black male in university, especially one like Western LOL. On my football visit I saw 7 black people on the entire tour LOL, I'm not too worried about the whole race thing though, I'm accustomed both being surrounded by black people, and also being the token one. Well, let me know if you get roomed up with some other black guy. That would really confirm my theory.  LOL, definitely. You've got me intrigued with your theory as well. not to be racist but i would love it if this theory was true... i have some weird asian habits and i don't want to go and freak out my roommate =_=
UWO 2012
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