So my current roommate is moving out at semester, my question is when am i going to know if i have a new roommate and who it may be

anyone with experience in this field?

you *may* know ahead of time. However, there is the option, oft taken, of just moving someone in to live with you.

Happened to me my freshman year, the only notification I got was my new roommate called me about 2 days before I moved in and said he was here.



God what a horrible semester that was. Damn WoW swampies.

Last year they moved a new roommate into my room on a weekend I was gone, without telling me about it... quite a suprise walking into my room and seeing someone new there. And upon turning on my computer I saw that he had been on it.

From my experience in TJ, you have a pretty good chance of having the room to yourself next semester. It happened to like 5 people on my floor last year.

im sure the distaste was mutual

imagines fighting over the blinds being open -

"AAAAAAAAAG! What are you doing? My mage's warhammer has less effect when you expose my monitor to direct sunlight."

"Its freaking overcast! You swampie! Go outside. Talk to a girl!"

"Girls are overrated. So are the outdoors"

Yea, thats how it happened with me. Some guy just showed up one day and started moving his stuff in.

If you have a decent RA, they *should* know if someone is being added, and will tell you... that's what mine did.

For my last year in the dorms, my roommate decided to go to a different college about one week before classes started. Even though there were people living in a motel 16 blocks from campus, I had my own room. Rumor has it that it was only going to be for that semister, then someone else was going to move in. So I found someone else that I could tolerate and moved in with him before I got the suprise. For those of you on seek back then, he was theMysticLlama.

So, you can take your chances with reslife, or find someone else in a similar situation and consolidate.

Same here, knock on the door, I was like who are you, and he says umm I guess your new roommate. Don't expect a advanced notice.

I had only a couple hours notice, but I've heard plenty of stories about people just appearing in rooms.

yeah, my roommate first semester didn't even tell me he was moving out (though it didn't break my heart) came back after Christmas break he was gone, left for a couple hours, came back and i had a new roommate.

yeah, this is all kinda what i was expecting..

Did you guys all get roommates at the beginning of the semester? My roommate's leaving this semester. If I come back and don't have a roommate, and don't get one during the first week, am I pretty much gonna have the room to myself? Or do guys move in at completely random times during the semester?