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" Hey Seventeen-ers! Midterms are FINALLY over and I  PASSED all of them so far!! WOOT WOOT! Only waiting on one more grade and then I can relax! This week has been pretty calm compared to the past few so I decided that this week I&amp;#039;ll simply blog about a topic that almost every college student has to become accustomed to: roommates! When I first figured out where I was going to school, the next main issue on my mind was &amp;quot;Who the heck am I going to live with?&amp;quot; Better question... who is going to want to live with me? PLUS: I have not one, but TWO roommates!  I knew I didn&amp;#039;t want to room with someone from my high school, because I saw college as a chance to start over. I didn&amp;#039;t want it to simply be 13th grade... but I also didn&amp;#039;t want to have a random roommate and then be stuck living with someone I either don&amp;#039;t get along with, or someone who just freaks me out! That&amp;#039;s when I decided to try a roommate matching website called RoomSurf.com that connects you, through Facebook, to other college students looking for roommates. Once you&amp;#039;ve completed the personality quiz, you answer the same questions again but this time you answer them as if you were your roommate and it then matches you with people who answered the questions similar to your preferences. If you pay $10, you can obtain the Facebook information for your matches and get in contact with them. Normally, I wouldn&amp;#039;t have paid for something that seemed so silly, but I&amp;#039;m glad I did because I wouldn&amp;#039;t have met Molly! Then, we connected with our third roommate Jessie through Facebook as well! I&amp;#039;ve always been iffy about meeting people through the Internet, but thankfully I was one of the lucky ones. We get along great and I wouldn&amp;#039;t trade my experience with them thus far for anything.  Throughout this semester I&amp;#039;ve heard horror stories from friends, and readers like you, about the terrible roommate problems that they&amp;#039;ve been having. So Molly, Jessie, and I thought of some tips for you. Here is: The Unofficial Guide to being an Awesome Roommate brought to you by the girls of 305! (:  Don&amp;#039;t take things without asking. Sharing is caring, but be respectful. You wouldn&amp;#039;t want her using your things without asking, would you? Be honest. If you&amp;#039;re upset by something the other said or did, talk about it with them. By not talking about it, you create unnecessary tension, and that&amp;#039;s not good for any living situation. Don&amp;#039;t be spend time with each other 24/7. You already live with them and being with someone all of the time can get annoying. My roommates and I have become great friends and we do a lot together, but we spend enough time apart so that we don&amp;#039;t become overwhelmed. Even if it&amp;#039;s something as simple as going to the gym with someone else, everyone deserves a break sometimes. Compromise. This means that you use headphones and your desk lamp if necessary. For example, being that we have three people, my roommates and I always turn the light off if two of us are sleeping. It&amp;#039;s only fair! Set Boundaries. Here at UF, we are required to sign a roommate contract. It may sound cheesy, but it covers pretty much everything from room temperature preference to study hours to whether or not boys are allowed in your room. Going over this together gets all of the awkward and maybe uncomfortable conversations out of the way in the beginning!  Until next week! XOXO, Cara (: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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