How does roommate selection/assigning work at U of T? Not sure if you’ve covered this, but I searched your site and didn’t find anything.
Thanks!
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They give you and everyone else in the residence a questionnaire to fill out. And then, because they’re sadistic, they pair you up with the people who they know you’ll hate. Common roommates include:
1) know-it-alls who will shut themselves away all day when they’re not talking to you about the philosophical and social implications of Dido and Aeneas (just because you mentioned Dido’s new single) or making jokes about integration or Marx or glycerophospholipids
2) those super-social types that exude an indescribable hold on everyone and end up becoming everybody’s best friend — except for you, because YOU are just the most completely unbiased on Earth, and hence you can see that their REAL agenda is to brainwash everybody else and then take over the world
3) sloth types that leave banana peels on the kitchen table, leaves flies swarming the garbage, and somehow make the toilet REALLY REALLY dirty and yet never clean it up (oh gosh, the imagery)
4) vain types that walk like they’re in a never-ending beauty pageant, and will continuously remind you of how good they look, and whose only hobbies are: spending hours putting make-up on, spending hours walking around in their underwear/speedo/towel as if they’re God’s gift to the world (if male), buying 5 pieces of clothing every week (both genders)
5) baboons.
You’re welcome!!!!!
……..uh…. I somehow ended up publishing an unfinished post when I was trying to save my “draft”. Oh well. I guess I’ll continue it now because my job description says that I have to give you some GOOD information in every post. Hopefully you didn’t read my post and then run home crying because I didn’t give you any GOOD information.
Anyway, it really depends on what residence you are living in. I’m not about to go search up the policies every residence on campus just for you, so I’ll just list a few. I know that at Innis, you complete a form on which you specify how clean you are, how loud you are, how late you usually sleep, the types of music that you listen to, whether you’d mind your roommates having guests over… etc. etc. After that, they match you up with people who they think will be compatible with you. If you have friends (like aska), and they intend to stay at the residence that you’re staying at, you can also specify that on your form and they will do their best to put you in the same room. I EXPECT (but do not guarantee) that other residences have similar policies. For instance, UC states that they match you up based on your housing application form.
I don’t know what college you’re in/going to be in, so I can’t really help much in this regard. Just search up the residence rules if and when you get accepted.
Annnddddddddd it looks like our 50 minutes are up. See you next class.