Health & Fitness
Adams Seniors Like Myself Ponder Roommate Options
As the end of school nears, here's the question for college-bound seniors: room blind or room with a friend? I've weighed all the options.
Early May means that high school seniors are making their final decisions on where to attend college next year. Once this decision has been made, students are faced with many more forms to fill out, including housing for those who will be going away to school.
Now comes the question: room blind or room with a friend? They both have their pros and cons.
Trust me, I have considered them all.
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Many students choose to room blind. Rooming blind is an opportunity for students to meet a lot of new people and break out of the comfort zone of high school.
Katelyn Kerns, who will be attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has decided to room blind. Kerns says about the experience, “Of course rooming blind comes with mixed emotions. I'm very nervous to be sharing small living quarters with someone I don't know at all, but it will be a fun experience to meet new people. I'm very ready for that.”
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Other students choose to take the safer route and live with a friend.
Steven Gaus, who will be attending Michigan State University in the fall, has decided to room with a fellow classmate and friend, Danny Patten, from Adams. Some people feel more comfortable going to college with a roommate they know. They believe they can fully trust the person they will be living with for the year.
Some Adams students view the roommate situation as an opportunity to get to know an acquaintance better. Kevin Wu, an Adams tennis player who will be attending Middlebury College in Vermont, met many students and potential roommates a couple weeks ago when he visited the school. He said that he will room with one of those students he met or someone from the Middlebury tennis team.
I always thought I was going to go in blind until this school year, when I heard about my cousin Laura’s bad experiences with rooming blind at not just one college, but two. While weighing the pros and cons, I found that the cons, like personal safety issues, prevailed over the pros for my situation and personality.
I am choosing the option that is more comfortable for me and am excited to room with one of my very good high school friends, Kendall Moyer, when we attend the University of Michigan in the fall.
Whatever the roommate situation may or may not be, college bound Adams High School seniors are entering an exciting time in their lives.
