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Ok, I just have to rant because I still can't believe this. I just talked to my admissions rep for school (I start May 20th...i think it just snuck right up on me!) and I was discussing my rooming situation and everything like that. I will be living in the dorms and was asking my rep when I would find out who my roommate was so I could talk to her and coordinate things (phone, tv, etc...). You know what they told me?!? "We won't be able to give you your roommates name or phone number for privacy reasons." PRIVACY REASONS!!! I'm going to be living with the person, for god's sake. So is it better for their privacy that I should just show up, walk into the room and say "hey, i'm your new roommate?" Unbelievable!
Well, my counselor did go on to say that if both parties agreed, a phone conversation could be set up through the housing department and if names and phone #'s wanted to be exchanged at that time, if both parties agreed, it was ok.
Does anyone else see the sense it this? When I went for my undergraduate, the summer before freshman year I knew who my roommate was and I called her and we had everything arranged as to who was bringing what and so on. It just makes sense to me.
Has anyone else had this happen? Any other students out there facing this? Of course, I'm going to try to set up a phone call with this person, whoever she may be, through housing so maybe I can talk to her.
I'm sorry this is so long, just needed to rant a little...some things just don't make sense to me and this is definitly one of them!
Dunk
Well, my counselor did go on to say that if both parties agreed, a phone conversation could be set up through the housing department and if names and phone #'s wanted to be exchanged at that time, if both parties agreed, it was ok.
Does anyone else see the sense it this? When I went for my undergraduate, the summer before freshman year I knew who my roommate was and I called her and we had everything arranged as to who was bringing what and so on. It just makes sense to me.
Has anyone else had this happen? Any other students out there facing this? Of course, I'm going to try to set up a phone call with this person, whoever she may be, through housing so maybe I can talk to her.
I'm sorry this is so long, just needed to rant a little...some things just don't make sense to me and this is definitly one of them!
Dunk