College Roommates
Notre Dame is probably one of the few institutions left that requires their first-year students to live with a roommate, for a full year, who is randomly assigned to them. I remember the summer before freshman year when my home friends were scouring their future university’s various “Class of 2025” Instagram pages for a potential roommate. Surely, it is a daunting task to try and select a roommate from only three to five photos and a generic caption. If I had a nickel every time I read the statement “I love to go out, but I am also down for a chill night in,” I might be able to make a dent in my tuition. But as part of Notre Dame’s ambition to create a real community, without exclusivity or isolation of a particular student, random roommates are assigned to each incoming first-year, as well as a random room assignment. Unfortunately, that means you are less likely to coordinate your room to look like a perfect Pinterest photo with matching bedding and posters.…