Housing Mayhem

The Lehigh housing lottery is a mess. A drama-filled, hectic, political mess. Not that it has to be, but we all make it one (or at least I do in my own head). What happens is Lehigh assigns us all random numbers, which came out this morning, and you can either pick quad/apartment-style housing or regular dorm housing. Then we all go into a large lecture hall and the housing people start calling the numbers in order, and like a big BINGO game, we watch as people choose a room and cross it off on our little diagrams of the buildings. It is going to be a madhouse. Obviously most people want quad style housing and you have no hope of getting one unless you have a number lower than about 100. If you are one of the lucky few with such a low number, you can pick a quad and bring your three friends into it and live happily ever after. However, if you are not one of the lucky few, you get stuck in traditional dorm housing. How did I do you ask? I got number 564. There are only 648 possible numbers. I am THAT lucky. Unfortunately all of the athletes that I know also got bad numbers and will be in my same boat so I can't really cling on to them. We have all pretty much decided on the fact that we are going to live in a floor on Drinker (a terrible name for a college dorm I know) and whoever is lucky enough to get a single we will all hate and shun for a little bit but then get over it.

So now that leaves the question, who to room with? Everyone I asked is so vague about the whole process which leads me to one of my biggest pet peeves. I hate to harp on negative things and think it brings only more negative things, but since I brought it up I must continue. I am a planner. I like to get things settled right away and see them through. I am also a very trusting person, so when someone tells me they are going to do something I think they are going to do it. Unfortunately not everyone is a planner. I have found this out the hard way many times, and the housing process is yet another example. I've been asking around seeing what everyone wants to do and no one will give me straight answers or get my hopes up and say that they want to do a certain thing but then change their minds like nothing happened. It gets a little frustrating. Fortunately, their are good people in the world like one of my basketball teammates who said if she doesn't get a single (we've all come to an agreement that anyone who can get a single should take it by all means. We all understand. We'd all do it), she will pull me in as her roommate in Drinker. It was so nice of her and she was upfront about it and I definitely appreciated it. Since everything depends on what everyone else picks, there are going to be a lot of spur of the moment decisions, so I'm just going to stop worrying about it and hope for the best. Very hard to do for a planner...