HOW TO SURVIVE LIVING WITH ROOMMATES NC STATE UNIVERSITY

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Today we're gonna be talking about how to survive living with roommates because it could be a big change, especially if you're an only child like me. Are you still having, like, tons of time alone and at home by yourself? Living with roommates could be a change, and it could be difficult. So the way NC State does rooming and housing and all of that, it's freshmen have to live on campus, and then after that you can live off campus. Freshman year you have to live on campus in a dorm, which is you and one other person, and you could be in like, a whole style where it's like your room is just on a whole kind of like a hotel, and then they'll be like a bathroom out there. You'll have, like two bathrooms at the end, where you have, like communal showering and communal living and communal, going to the bathroom and all of that kind of style where you live in a sweet style, which is what I lived in. I lived in Carol Hole and see Say, It's one of the tri towers. I lived in the Tri Towers at N. C. State my first year, which is sweet style living. So the way that we chose our roommates, I didn't know another girl that was going to in see State that I was gonna live with whenever we went to ST Like I was basically the only girl from our school. There wasn't a Facebook group where you can post like Hi, my name is Olivia like, I cheered and played tennis in high school, and I really like fashion. I'm really laid back when it comes to living situations. Like a raw would say, I had a really good roommate and I found her through that. So living situations could be pretty competitive at schools, depending on, like if they have enough housing or not. So empty stay actually really doesn't have enough housing for us, and they require all freshmen to live on campus so it can create conflicts. So what they have you do is they have you put your like top three picks of where you want to live. You just might not end up in your first choice of housing, but for me, whenever I was buying this coming year to live in the same well for departments, I was trying to apply with my friend and she didn't live on campus last year, so it made a conflict because we're going into our junior year. She didn't live on campus, and I did, so I had more of a priority than she did. That's kind of how you pick your roommate and like, where you're gonna live in, like all those details. So my first tip is to discuss what you guys need for the room and how you want the room to be set up and all that kind of the layout kind of like the boundaries of, like, where you want your stuff where she wants her stuff before you get in there and just do it because we had a little bit of a conflict on moving day because I kind of set up all my wall the way I wanted it to be. So make sure whenever you're like rearranging on the first day and all that thought you communicate with each other on what each other wants, don and talk prior about what you need for the rooms like we split the cost on like curtains, I think, and then like or maybe I bought the curtain and she bought the rug. Just like dorm room living in general, I will link down below. So you want to be able to figure out like what things you do need and what things you don't need. I wouldn't live in like this passive aggressive, tense place, because that's really uncomfortable, and you want you want your space will be somewhere that you feel comfortable in our happy in so I would address problems that you have, but also just be considerate of each other and try to be a little understanding. You know, you're living in a college room where things are not gonna always be how you want them to be. That's just how colleges that's how living with roommates is. One of the questions is, How have you shown that you're good with change and let go with the flow And like all that and the first thing that I think of is like, I am a really relaxed roommate. Be consider of your room And don't do anything that you wouldn't want don to you if you get what I'm saying, like you never want your room to feel like a place that you can be in. There are certain things like alarms and like their side of the room, being a little messy and like them wanting the light on or the temperature a certain way. As long as you, your roommate, have an agreement about that with each other, you don't really have to worry about the Ari's like busting you or anything. You guys are excited to finally have your own place and like, be ableto have your boyfriend over whenever you want and all that roommates just try to keep that in mind. If you end up with somebody that you really can't live with, it's really just not working. Change where you will move out and go and live in a different dorm and your roommate will give a new roommate. So if you find yourself in a living situation that you really can't handle, you can always do that. Living in a place like that is something that you just have to deal with, especially like other rooms being loud and stuff. That's what it's like whenever you live in a setting like that. At the end of the day, your only living there for a short period of time and living in a situation like this can be a really good learning experience. If you're having a really hard time with your roommate and you don't want to go through moving or anything, you just want to deal with it until the end of the year. You only have to sleep in the same room, really, or if you really want, you can go and say it's someone else's and try to be in the room as little as possible. You don't have to interact that much if you don't really want to. They'll say, Hey, you want to go to the dining hall with us or we're going out tonight? Do you want to go? And I could be a really great way to make funds with them. So just to recap, all I'm trying to say is, you know you have to be a little understanding and a little more go with the flow than you might normally be because you're living in a situation that you've never lived in before.