If your college has a buffet-type cafeteria, BRING TUPPERWARE IN YOUR BAG!!! You can glean extra meals for yourself. Cost-effective and useful for if your meal plan doesn't cover 3 meals/day or if you are hungry and the cafeteria isn't open. (Make sure you have access to a fridge and microwave.)
Huh my college has a system that works really well for finding classes, basically the first number is the floor so 302 will be on the third floor and 106 will be on the first floor, then we put a letter at the end for which building the class is in so like 316n would be the third floor 16th class in the n building
Bro I agree with the career fair I once had one where the people that make/suppy nandos with the chicken ingredients do it and I got a hella lot of chicken, like a good £10 worth if I went 2 the restaurant, and the best part was that they where more than happy 2 let me and my mates have it and more.
Can confirm, it's all about those unknown quirks. You also get to see a different kind of maturity (or lack there of) when you are living together day to day
What if, say, I’ve already lived with this person, shared a room with them, and our friendship remained intact? Should I room with them for college then?
@@luisavicente1240 living with my best friend was a little tough and we only lasted about a year. But now that we have separate roommates, we're closer than ever
The college roomate one isnt so much 100% on failure, but you do have to be willing to take that gamble. I moved into a triple with two of my high school best friends, one of them ended up being the literal worst to hang around with 24/7, we realized all the toxicity we’ve been ignoring for 4 years, and we stopped being friends/she moved out. The other has become family to me; we get along extremely well and I cannot imagine living with anyone else. It really is just a true test of friendship, because GUARANTEED I would have stopped being friends with friend #1 at some point down the line, this just sped up the process and I’m honestly thankful it did. If you know how to set boundaries and are willing to truly find out if you and your friend are meant to be, I say go for it.
I have this friend who I was best friends with from 1st-6th grade, I moved across the country and we are still bestfriends. we want to be roommates when we go to college in a few years and I think the fact that we stayed friends even being apart will help us be good roommates then. so yeah its not always going to go badly
College student here. can confirm all of these! Also if you’ve got a bad feeling about a potential roommate, just know those red flags get so much worse when living together
You’re right with the grand staircases from HP, even I lost which area they were haha. In hs it’s sometimes weird too but it’s important to know where your colleges are before hand
I roomed with my best friend from high school my freshman year and it was awesome. We are both really chill people, so sharing was never a problem and if we had a problem with someone doing or not doing something we didn’t like, we just told them and the problem was resolved. It’s about communication and not being assholes when rooming with friends.
Yeah, I was so used to having several classes back to back that I didn't know what to do during my free time that I started walking around the school and looked for all the classrooms for each of my classes. I helped a few other freshmen during the first week that way and made a few friends.
I made the mistake of moving into my first apartment with my best friend of soon to be 9 years. We are both now at the end of out lease and getting our own places and are luckily still friends but it got really hard sometimes. People can be really different when you live with them
I went to a LOT of industry meet and greets and info sessions and just any random events at uni for the free pizza cuz I was broke and living on my own. They are truly life savers. I just sat in the back and did my homework for an hour or two and then get rewarded with pizza!
I LOVE going to the career fairs, it's also great for networking and getting involved in clubs if that's your thing. Free food, pens, and advice. Making any kind of connections, even if it's not something you're into, is great. Multiple job recruits know who I am because I go nearly every time, I'm not even interested in the jobs they're recruiting for.
Honestly the career fair is so true. Like I always went to the college fairs in high school because one people barely went so I got to ask all the questions I wanted and two at least one school there would have free stuff to pass out.
You just explained the dorm roommate situation perfectly. Like I’ve always understood why someone MAY want to room with a friend and why they shouldn’t. But I dunno, the way you said you can set boundaries better with a stranger than a friend just… , clicked.
So true with the career fair!! I stumble upon it when I was in 2nd year and I got lots of free goodies not only there's food but also make-up and skincare products 😂
Honestly, when it comes to roommates is all about respect and boundaries. If your best friend and you can't communicate maturely, then that's the issue - I'm roommates with my best friend and we're fine. We're honest with each other and understand when to give each other space
I I ever went to college with my bestie, I don't think we would fight. We've been friends for a long time, and are very good at setting boundaries with each other as it is.
See my best friend and I have had talks about how the other shouldn’t and doesnt need to be offended if the other sets a boundary. That is our like main flex. We can set boundaries.
lucky, i roomed with my best friend, and the second we submitted our roommate applications, we sat down together and established hard boundaries that could not be crossed. it helped that both of us are pretty assertive and would not hesitate to punch the other for breaking a rule
I had a high-school friend as a roommate. I think having a suite style dorm with 8 more people helped so that we set boundaries with everyone. Pretty great year.
The bestfriends one is true. I'm too young to go to college (uni in my country) But when i moved to a new school, around the end of the school year, I signed up for a holiday my school was hosting, where we were in a mountains resort. My two new bestfriends and I were in the same room by choice and my God was it scary... There was door shutting, yelling, fighting, throwing things, breakdowns, outbursts, tears, sleeping in the hall, distancing, ignoring, screaming and if I continue, I'm going to list this all day... It was a hell of a nightmare, I swear. Please don't repeat the same mistake - just group up with a person you don't know (introvert or ambivert preferably) and you'll both me less chaotic, more collected, serious and won't show your true selves, causing conflicts (I know that sounds super unhealthy, but trust me, okay? 😭)
i’m not in college but id choose to roommate with a friend that i know but not a lot because i’ve learned way too much from sleepovers and the ones i barely know are the most chill
Shout out to two of my closest friends, sadly my friend "C" didn't know my friend "K" was a party girl, only I knew that cause we were the trouble makers in the friend group lmaoooo The fight was so bad C went from the savanna campus to the Atlanta campus
yep! my 2 best friends and i have had 10 day sleepovers, so weve set boundaries clear on. my boyfriend and i are clear with boundaries and communication as well as the certainty that we want to live together so it depends
I definitely agree with the first one. I was roommates with my best friend from high school, and now we don’t speak anymore. She moved out after the first semester. You definitely don’t know a person until you live with them.
If you do want to share with a BFF then here are my tips. Test sleep beforehand, as in have a week or two where you sleep over every night, stay in the same place every day. Travel together and have shared accommodation, that makes it easier to test dividing of chores when there is no parental safety net, also introverts have an easier time than extrovert ls because they will have less of a drive to go out, throw parties or bring someone home. Met my bestie in 12th grade moved in together three years later, was a great success. We had to move back home due to Healthcare reasons but we still hangout all the time and I would love to live with her again.
About that roommate situation. I have friends who I care about a lot but I would never want to live with. On the other hand I do have some friends who I know are very reliable and chill to live with.
The roommate one was said by current students at the college i plan to attend next term. I was at a college visit and they had ‘student ambassadors’ as they were called to tell us the college experience and advice. To say they were adamant about not rooming with your high school friend is an understatement.
There’s this building at my school called the Death Star, and the reason for that is that pretty much anyone who enters who hasn’t been there before gets lost. The reason they built it that way is because they want people to make friends by asking for directions.
GO TO THE CAREER FAIR! I was a freshman this year and I thought I wouldn’t go cause I figured no one would hire me yet, but I actually ended up getting a volunteer job at a marine science center for the summer! So even though I won’t get paid I’ll have something to continue building my resume.
About the career fair one, DO still go to company booths and network. At least at my career fair, there were internships and coops specifically targeting underclassmen. My cousin is a freshmen and this summer he’s doing an internship paying him 28/hr, which is more than double what you’ll be making in retail or food service, and it looks great in the resume. Meanwhile I decided to skip and am not jobless for the summer. Learn from my mistake
i will be a roommate with my best friend, we haven’t been friends since junior high, we’ve been friends since kindergarten. we KNOW each other. trust me. it’ll turn out beautifully horrible, but we will be fine.
My best friend and I lived together for two fall semesters and it was great. not perfect but still pretty good, on occasion we'll talk about how it went better than expected and was better than current living arrangements
Honestly I 100% agree on the job fair stuff. I did one year of university before dropping out but on the job fair I spent all my free time (and even some break times during study halls) just walking around getting free candies, food, pens or stuff and lots of free coffee. I even have a salt shaker still that I got after chatting with the company that made the plastic that made the salt shakers
I did room with my best friend, but I knew him since we were toddlers and are basically brothers. It’s been fine, a few minor disagreements but we know how to talk things out so it’s been okay.
I wish there were segments like this that targeted 30+Yr Olds... 3 mistakes made by Career-Year Olds: 1.) Not signing up for the company matched 401k. 2.) Not trying in-person classes for learning new skills. 3.) Not updating their resume every year to keep their work side focused and goal oriented, and not upsetting your personal life. 😀
I roomed with one of my best friends, and it went great. We took the same classes, we were in the same clubs and sorority, I worked on the farm for scholarship pay and she was training a young horse for one of her equestrian classes, etc. Never had trouble.
I agree with the not roommate with bestie one. When I first came for college I made sure I wasn't roommate with my high school friend who was in same college. I am a person with lots of boundaries and don't like it if people don't respect or cross it. It easier to set boundaries with someone new than someone you have know for a long time.
Honestly, the best friend one for me and my best friend is normal- 13 years we been friends and we know what ticks each other off, I’m positive we’d do that just to make each other mad or a little late lol
Honestly I think me and my bestie would be good roommates because my memory loss with her stupidity makes for a perfect friendship of forgetting about everything
My sisters a freshman and she LOVED the career fair she got so much free stuff and my dad went with and knew some of the guys working his job stand and she got a boat load extra from just them
I think it's hard being roommates with your best friend if you're a girl but when my friend and I rented out an apartment in college it was pretty chill.
And definitely going to the career fair can help with making connections with jobs and meeting new people. Also definitely I know it sounds fun being roommates with your best friend but make sure you guys are compatible with living with one another. A few sleepovers is nothing compared to living with them for 2 semesters.
You were 100% right about the bad layout. We have 2 buildings that are both called Dolan. One is the science building, one is the honor's dorm. The honor's dorm is the only dorm hall with a classroom in it. I showed up super late my first day because they didn't tell us where one class would be until the day before. I spent forever trying to find the basement of the science center. I heard later it apparently DOES have a basement, but fuck me if I could find it. Lucky for me though the class was in my dorm hall.
