{"id":206,"date":"2018-11-07T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/?p=206"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:39:27","slug":"the-roommate-problem-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/2018\/11\/07\/the-roommate-problem-final\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roommate Problem Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scavenger hunts, snowball fights, football games \u2013 College Culture is composed of so many things that make the college experience unique. Though students everywhere experience this Culture differently, there are some things that are included in College Culture in most places; roommates are one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roommates can be great, and awful. Blind draws can find a student their best friend, and analytical choices can make a students\u2019 greatest enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheri Hineman, the Director of Residence Life at Morningside College, has had years of experience with college students and roommates. Hineman believes that there are both positives and negatives in this aspect of College Culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think having a roommate helps you communicate with someone whom you haven\u2019t grown up with. They make you feel not as lonely and isolated,\u201d Hineman said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hineman believes that roommates are one of the reasons that more students stay in school. Without them, she believes the loneliness would impact students to where they wouldn\u2019t leave their rooms or build connections with other people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMeeting someone different, who could be socially different, different ethnic background, race, upbringing…gives you somebody outside your social circle to talk,\u201d Hineman also said about the benefits of roommates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though roommates offer potential friendships and bonds, there are also negatives that play into this aspect of the culture of college. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be difficult to get to know someone. You both have to put in effort to build a relationship,\u201d Hineman commented. <\/span><\/p>\n

Alyssa Miller agreed with Hineman on her position on the benefits of a roommate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey can add support and friendship, especially in the beginning. You start talking before school starts so you start creating that connection,\u201d Miller commented. Though Miller agreed with this position, she also realized that roommates sometimes don\u2019t work out.<\/span><\/p>\n

College relationships begin with roommates, but sometimes \u201cyou get a dud,\u201d as stated by Hineman, which Miller discovered her freshman year. <\/span><\/p>\n

Miller went through three different roommates within her first ninety days of college. Her original roommate was never in the room and tended to party, and the next two switched quickly. Caitlin Makovicka was the roommate that stuck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller spoke of the stress of constantly changing roommates and how it felt to finally become settled.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe was in the room every night. That\u2019s where the friendship-roommate thing came into play. Your room has to feel like a safe space, so changing to Caitlin made it that way while still having someone in the room,\u201d Miller said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Haley Lampe also spoke about having the option to pick your roommate, and how that changed the culture associated with roommates in college.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI already knew what I was getting myself into,\u201d Lampe commented, \u201cI was more anxious to begin the year when I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Roommates that begin as strangers are common, and choosing your roommate changes College Culture. Students that pick their roommates have already made connections, but they must continue to work with another person in order to live in cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter what, roommates are the necessary evil of college. They change everyday life of a student.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had to change how I interacted in my own room,\u201d Alex Badger said. \u201cI had to start to be considerate of the other person at all times\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Adjusting to a roommate can be stressful. Sleep schedules don\u2019t always match up, friends sometimes stay over too late, and arguments can break out between the students. <\/span><\/p>\n

Badger says that sleeping with white noise is a \u2018no-go\u2019 with his current roommate, and that figuring out how sleep in dead silence has been a constant struggle. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have to adjust most everything in my day accordingly. He sleeps at a different time than me. He goes to bed at midnight, while I go to bed at one or later.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Challenges with when to turn off lights, how long to allow Playstation screens to glow, and talking too loud on cell phones add to the roommate culture in college.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roommates create different experiences for each person, but they are a common aspect of College Culture. Roommates create friendships, facilitate certain issues, and force students to learn give-and-take.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without roommates, College Culture would be different and without roommates the college experience would be missing one crucial aspect.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scavenger hunts, snowball fights, football games \u2013 College Culture is composed of so many things that make the college experience unique. Though students everywhere experience this Culture differently, there are some things that are included in College Culture in most places; roommates are one. Roommates can be great, and awful. Blind draws can find a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/journalism208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}