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I prefer to choose my roommate by myself rather than the university assigns a roommate. There are two reasons: I am not a good person who can get along with a person who I do not know, and there are too many risks if the university chooses my roommate.
First of all, I am a person who cannot be friend easily with someone who I never know. Also, I feel uncomfortable with a person who I do not know. If I have a roommate who I have known, however, I will be relieved in my room because she is already my friend. For example, when I lived in school dormitory, I had roommates twice. At a first time, she was my friend who took same class with me. We went to the class together, had meals, and had great time. At a second time, however, I had a roommate who I really do not know and she was 5 years older than me. She never talked to me, so I was always uncomfortable. Even though I love to have my time in my space, at that time, I went back my room after 7pm because she always went out after 7pm.
Moreover, usually the universities are not careful when they choose roommates. There is a chance that I can get a good roommate even if the university selects a roommate randomly. However, it doesn’t work. In case of my school, they did not consider people’s patterns of life when they arrange their students. So, there are some cases of this problem. On the other word, it is possible that although I always go to bed at 12am, I can have a roommate who stays all night and doesn’t sleep until 2am.
Some people say that having a roommate who you do not know is good to know new friend. Those words are not for me because I am not an out-going person. When I am uncomfortable, I get a lot of stress. Because of those reasons, I want to choose my roommate by myself not by the university.
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