Hi so I was just wondering what people had about sharing a room, I have never done it before and was just wondering about it and what people have to say about the technicalities of it. I am not worried at all about it, but wonder how things work like, getting up for work, say it is your roommate's day off and you are up early for work, surely you would wake them up with your alarm clock and trying to get ready? And if one of us came in late from a night out, we may wake the other up etc, silly things like that really. Just wondered what everyone had to say about it/how they felt about it all.
I had a roommate in first year university so I was use to it before Disney. Roommates are somewhat a matter of luck, unless you move in with your friends. My first night in the commons my roommate woke me up part way through the night with a guy...if you know what I mean. It was so awkward! However we became good friends afterwards and ended up laughing about it. Really the key thing is communication. I wouldn't work until 3pm and my roommate would work at 7am sometimes..and yes you wake up by the others alarm, but most of the time you can turn over and fall asleep again quickly. You try not to turn lights on outside of the bathroom or closet, and just learn to work with each other. I had 6 roommates over my year (4 in a one bedroom which made things easier, all of these ones friends) and with each one we just have to get use to each other's habits. I loved having roommates, sometimes it's nice to have time alone though, that was the only thing with living in a 6 or 8 person apartment, you're seldom home alone (I found at least). It takes a bit of time, but you'll get use to it. And if you really can't stand each other, you can have housing meetings to "fix your differences", or you can move for $50!
Yeah I completely agree with Kate. When I was in France I had 2 roommates in a room which about 6ft square (bunkbeds!) and at times it was tricky and we spent too much time together and wanted to kill each other but generally it was fine. You just learn to deal with it and I find the most important thing is knowing when to just leave the room and have some time to yourself or let the other person do the same. We were all very different (particularly in the tidiness dept) but we just to deal with it and it was fine. Plus, as Kate said, you can always move x
My first ICP I lived with girls from Barbados and they didn't believe in Air Conditioning... this is an example of the commonly found problem - AC WARS!!!! I just turned it on whenever I was in the apartment and then they kept turning it off whenever they came in - for them, 20 degrees was freezing! I basically put up with it... but if that happened and I was on the year program then I probably would have moved. Instead I just put up with it for 3 months and bought myself a bedside fan. On my second ICP I had lovely roomates even tho it seemed like one was moving in or out every two weeks haha! No problems living with them and as Kate said - you just find ways of compromising... you'd avoid turning lights on in the night and use the bathroom to get ready instead, be quiet if you came home late or left early and distinguished rules about who eats what out of the fridge! You get used to sharing a room quite quickly, I've never found it a problem!
Thanks everyone, yeah it is not something I am worried about more just wondering how it works, but of course it is a walk in closet so yeah you could totally get dressed in there etc - makes sense now
