Due to the nature of the program, 10-day overnight program, your responses in this portion are used to help identify potential well-matched roommates. It’s very important to be honest when answering the questions…and be sure you as the student are responding, not your parent!
Please use the information and tips below to help you think more about how to most accurately respond to each question. Also keep in mind that your thoughts and/or habits may change one you arrive and adapt to the college setting and schedule, so the guide below can help you consider this while responding.
1. Vaping / Smoking
Concord University is a tobacco and smoke-free campus.
While smoking is prohibited on campus, some students may be allergic or sensitive to smoke that another student may carry on their clothes after smoking off campus. While most people automatically think of cigarettes, please also consider other means of smoking such as hookahs, cigars, vaping, electronic cigarettes, etc. as you answer this question about how often you smoke:
2. Cleanliness
Rate how important keeping your room neat and clean is to you:
3. Sleeping
This question asks you when you tend to go to sleep:
4. Free time
This question asks how you typically spend your free time:
5. Studying
How often do you typically study?
6. Background noise
This questions refers to how loud the background noise can be in your room when you sleep:
Some people can only sleep when it is very quiet, while others prefer to have a radio or fan while they sleep. Keep in mind that when living in a living community, there are hundreds of other students living around you, so you’ll likely experience and get used to the ambient noise in the hallway or from the room above. Are you a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? Keep in mind noise, light, guests, and other possible distractions during sleep. What do you like the background noise level to be?
7. Room use for quiet study
This question asks about the importance of your ability to study quietly in your room:
8. Room use for socializing
This question asks about the importance of your ability to use your room for hanging out with friends.
While there are many options to hang out with others in common areas such as the floor lounges, lobbies, game rooms, laundry rooms, kitchens, as well as outside or at the dining hall, some students prefer to hang out together in their living space. No opposite sex visitors allowed in the rooms or on the floors (corridor where your rooms are).
9. Friendship expectations
This question asks about the importance of having your roommate become a close friend.
It is important to think about your expectations, so that you’re not disappointed if you want to be best friends, but your roommate just wants to have a respectful living environment but not hang out together.
While some roommates become lifelong friends and like to hang out together, others can be excellent roommates while not becoming close friends. Either way, or somewhere in between, communication is key in all situations!
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