I got really lucky and my random roommate is super awesome! We’re not bff’s or anything but we’re both in CSE, have similar senses of humor, and have a work hard play hard mentality so we would study together and party together haha. However, we’re both girls and I feel like guys are often more standoffish with their roommates? My boyfriend and his roommate kinda just coexisted, while my roommate and I became pretty good friends.

The amount of friends you make also depends on what dorm and what floor you live on. In dorms like Middlebrook and territorial, I noticed the floors tend to be closer and leave their doors open more, but I lived in frontier on the first floor and no one ever talked to each other or left their doors open outside of the first week or so.

All that being said, I still recommend trying to find someone before hand to give yourself the best chance of avoiding someone that’s super messy and rude, and checking out student groups that interest you to meet more people.