College Roommates Meet Via Email, Learn Nothing
from the well-that-was-useless dept
Before I went to college (in the days before everyone had email) I was sent the phone number of my roommate to be. I called him up and talked with him a while and we agreed on what we would bring and things like that. He seemed nice enough over the phone. What I didn't realize was that we wouldn't get along at all (there was a small issue with him spending a lot of time trying to convert me to his particular religion - which he left out of the phone conversation). These days, that conversation has switched to email or instant messaging (NY Times free fake registration required). High school students think that they get to know their future roommates better this way, but plenty of researchers disagree, saying that the "text-based" version of the person is often quite different than they are in real life.
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Back to school
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Why would you call/email your roommate?
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The balance is most assuredly skewed. The message is "use your time in college getting used to spending a LOT of time with folks you may not like."
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