Alright, As we all know that it’s not really common to live alone in college even if you are the only son of B.G, Living with a roommate once you start your college life journey is just a matter of individual choices, but that doesn’t mean that living with a roommate is an easy task. Here I will be stating some few tips to help you learn how you can adjust with your roommate.
Personalities:
Whether you are living in-campus or off-campus you will probably have one or more roommates in order to save money. Adjusting with you roommates can be a beneficial experience but it can also be a very complicated experience as you will have to deal with mixture of personalities in one house. You will need to create a cleaning schedule and take care of your roommate’s leisure timings.
You also need to adjust with the moodiness and bills as it can all lead to a stressful relation from a friendly relation. When you are new to your college you will probably haven’t met your roommate before so it might take time to talk to each other. Nowadays social media is most likely considered to be a good way of getting to know people but nobody knows who their roommates will be, so it’s better to get to know your roommate when you move in with them.
Mr Perfect:
Once you move in and settle down with your roommate you can consider getting to know each other and create a good bonding between each other. Discuss your habits, likes and dislikes such as how high volume is acceptable on stereo speakers, what are your sleeping routines and so on. Clearing out and setting up rules can help avoid conflicts between you and your roommate.
Obviously nobody is Mr. Perfect so both the roommates will need to compromise accordingly. No matter how similar your interests are as your roommate, there might still be issues. Issues such as maybe your roommate might like to have friends over until late night whereas you want to have some private quiet time, so that’s how by talking and sorting out thing together you can find a solution that will be beneficial for each and avoid conflicts.
Communication:
Communications is the most basic and main thing. Never hold back what’s bothering you about your roommate as your roommate might start taking your silence for granted and you keep getting annoyed by his habits which will further disturb your routine. State your concerns in a gentle manner and then come up to a solution with your roommate. Also take into consideration that constant complaining to your roommate may also end up in conflicts so it is better to let it go at times and work on building a good friendship bond with your roommate.
Your roommate is not only for resolving conflicts and sharing space, rather you can consider your roommate for a good company and a support during the times when you are having a hard time with your studies or any sort of issues that you are facing. Be open to your roommate’s interests even if you are not familiar to them, you might just find a new activity to enjoy and pass time.
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