Whoever coined the cliché “opposites attract” obviously didn’t live in a dorm or residence hall during their freshman year of college.

Unless you decide to room with your best friend from high school, someone you met on your class Facebook page, or, in some cases, your twin sister, you are most likely going to “go random” and room with a total stranger.

During housing registration, students are able to complete a very brief survey with questions ranging from “Do you keep a clean room?” to “Are you a smoker?” While this is merely a crutch in a complex game of Matchmaker, Housing and Residence Life’s current system of pairing up roommates has not only become ineffective, it has become problematic.

Having a roommate can be one of the most difficult endeavors, but what happens when you get paired up with someone who is literally the antithesis of yourself?

What if you told housing you keep a clean room and it looks like not one, but two tornados touched down in your room? What if you told housing you want to study in your room, but you can’t even get through reading an entire sentence because earplugs can’t drown out the noise? What if you told housing you don’t drink, but your roommate likes to party and has a habit of coming back at 3 a.m. wasted?

What if this is not even scratching the surface, but you’re told you don’t have good enough reasons to move out?

I can think of 11 rooms off the top of my head where at least one roommate has moved out due to conflicts derived from being paired with the wrong person.

Housing messed up and I was originally assigned to live with a female upperclassman RA in an apartment in the very back of campus. Honestly, I’d rather be living there than in my current room assignment at this point.

If housing were to come up with a more in-depth survey, that incorporated personality traits as well as interests, students would have better odds of getting paired with “the perfect roommate” due to a wider range of questions, as opposed to the basic ten currently being used.

If housing would at least take a closer look at their current survey’s answers, there would be less students moving out and I would be spending less nights in the Newman Multipurpose Room.