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The idea of picking your own roommates is so childish.  You're suppose to be start becoming a responsible adult in college.  The first step is to live with people randomly whom you don't know.  

I don't know, it seems that ever since I became an adult I have picked my own roommates. Particularly upon getting married I suppose. 

Still, I think the pseudo-random assignment of roommates for frosh is a good idea. 


Quote from Goose:
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Showing my age, I have to ask. Are Stanford roommate assignments freshman year now randomized? In my freshman year, you didn't get to choose your roommate, but the Housing Office went to great lengths to do it for us using criteria they somewhat explained but not really. Not sure if it was "better" or "worse" than random, but for sure, it wasn't random.
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Yes, back in the day, getting the summer job assigning the incoming frosh roommates was considered quite the plum. 
One year two good friends of mine had that position. 

There were lots of guidelines, which they basically tried to stick to, but as you can imagine occasionally a few ... extraneous considerations came to the fore. [I seem to remember one double with occupants having the surnames "Rock" and "Roll".]


By the way, has anyone figured out how to quote a second post within a single reply under our new board?

[CTcard]

The idea of picking your own roommates is so childish.  You're suppose to be start becoming a responsible adult in college.  The first step is to live with people randomly whom you don't know.  

I don't know, it seems that ever since I became an adult I have picked my own roommates. Particularly upon getting married I suppose. 

Still, I think the pseudo-random assignment of roommates for frosh is a good idea. 


Quote from Goose:
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Showing my age, I have to ask. Are Stanford roommate assignments freshman year now randomized? In my freshman year, you didn't get to choose your roommate, but the Housing Office went to great lengths to do it for us using criteria they somewhat explained but not really. Not sure if it was "better" or "worse" than random, but for sure, it wasn't random.
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Yes, back in the day, getting the summer job assigning the incoming frosh roommates was considered quite the plum. 
One year two good friends of mine had that position. 

There were lots of guidelines, which they basically tried to stick to, but as you can imagine occasionally a few ... extraneous considerations came to the fore. [I seem to remember one double with occupants having the surnames "Rock" and "Roll".]


By the way, has anyone figured out how to quote a second post within a single reply under our new board?