The start of a new school year can be very exciting.
Living away from home, starting a new chapter where you will probably end up needing a roommate.
Many people would roommate with their friends from their home town or people that they already know from their home town.
Or in other situations, people would roommate with complete strangers witch is most
common and normally what happens the first year you come to post-secondary outside your home town.
Living with strangers can be beneficial in ways that it can help you can meet One people, know your dislikes and likes. Either of these options means you have to experience having roommates.
It can go both ways where you and your roommates become your new best friend or become your worst nightmare.
Every year all colleges and university residence homes work hard to satisfice all students with the best fit of roommates.
The workers normally do this by getting all students to do a personality test.
Asking questions about habits and times they fall asleep so they can have a good mix of students that have similarities togethe
r.
But even after all the effort, the residence workers do make the match of the year. It can never be guaranteed to be a perfect fit.
Many students every year experience having a bad roommate or an incident with their roommates.
Maria a student at Fanshawe says when she was dealing with toxic roommates she “just went thought the whole year just dealing with all the problems the toxic roommates created”.
Many students like Maria just deal with their roommate’s behavior just for the school year.
Kevin another student that attends Fanshawe and Western decided to deal with his roommate situation a different way.
He filled a change room request, and later on, moved twice from his situation to get away from toxic roommates.
The toxic situation for any age can create unneeded stress and anxiety especially for a student that has to worry about school. To avoid as many toxic situations like this.
Rules have to be set to avoid any misunderstanding and to get to know your roommates as well. Find any pet peeves of your roommates and always try to respect their personalities.
Living with roommates can always have their ups and downs but respect and understanding is key to making a toxic situation significantly better.
