In an interview with the media, Pei from the School of Design Arts and Media of Nanjing University of Science and Technology mentioned that four people in his undergraduate dormitory chose "graduate study" as their future goal when filling out the questionnaire.

Pengpai News Intern Xu Pei Reporter Wang Yasai Chen Liangxian

Every time the school season begins, how is the new roommate like? It has become one of the most concerned things for many college freshmen. After all, whether the roommates are in line with each other or not will directly affect the quality of campus life in the next four years.

In order to help students find their soul roommates, some universities have also thought about it. From the initial questionnaire "dividing dormitories according to living habits", to now, they have started to match them using algorithms.

For example, Chengdu University freshmen in the 2022 class should answer interesting questions such as whether they are "society" or "society" or whether to accept durian or snail noodles flavored food before entering the school, and then accurately recommend roommates.

According to the questionnaire survey of Pengpai News , is much more satisfied with the dormitory allocation method such as Chengdu University that analyzes life and study habits. Behind the

algorithm matching roommates is to improve dormitory satisfaction and reduce conflicts. So, what kind of roommates will be favored, and what kind of roommates will be unbearable? What will harmonious dormitory life bring?

, what is the ideal roommate like?

Whether it is a roommate or a couple, if you want to share the same situation, the most important thing is to play together. If you want to sleep, he starts to turn on black and you feel cold and hot at 26 degrees air conditioner, that's really a mess.

Nanjing University fully considered these issues in the 2017 questionnaire assignment plan, and later it even iterated the "implicit semantic model recommendation algorithm" to find new partners who can be found. The teacher who developed this system compared its principle to the recommendation function of music software - finding your "soul roommate" by analyzing your listening habits to analyze your potential favorite songs.

But it changes over and over again. Whether the roommates in can be co-starred, the most important thing is whether the interests, hobbies, personality and attitudes can be consistent.

However, according to our survey, the primary criteria for boys and girls to co-photo roommates vary.

What girls value most is whether their personality and attitudes are similar to their classmates, while boys value similar interests and hobbies more than girls. in short, girls pay more attention to the emotional and spiritual compatibility, and boys hope that someone can play with them.

However, no matter how meticulous the school’s questionnaire is designed or how advanced the algorithm model is, the habits and hobbies between students cannot be guaranteed to be fully synchronized, and it is inevitable that there are some bumps and bumps in the dormitory. Most people believe that whether they can tolerate each other is a crucial thing for dormitory relationship.

More than one classmate mentioned to us that a roommate in the dormitory always snores when he sleeps, but the other party cannot control this matter. Some people cannot sleep without earplugs, while others are forced to develop the habit of going to bed early every day.

But there are times when you can't bear it.

In the questionnaire, nearly two-thirds of the respondents in agreed that no matter how tolerant the dormitory is, it cannot withstand the tossing of strange classmates.

Meet a weird roommate, I really can't stand

What kind of behavior in the dormitory is the most offensive? Our investigation concluded that we were struggling hard when it was time to rest.

For example, when everyone is ready to rest, someone is typing on the keyboard vigorously, or murmuring while talking to the subject, and some games are even suddenly screaming while playing, sending people from their dreams to Naihe Bridge .

There is another prominent problem that roommates do not pay attention to personal hygiene. This is particularly high in the questionnaire filled in by boys. On Zhihu , someone anonymously complained that he didn't like to clean his roommate: "The body emits an indescribable odor that is always emitting an indescribable odor, and often implies that he will go to take a shower."

In addition, he also acts such as ruling off the dormitory cleaning work, getting up and not turning off the alarm ring for a long time, and rumbling through other people's things, which are all unhappy. However, most respondents said they would tolerate it, and only 35.5% would give a blunt reminder.

According to our survey, dormitory relationship is most likely to drop to freezing point in the first semester of sophomore year, with nearly 30% of dormitory problems erupting during this period.

This may be because after gradually adapting to college life in my freshman year, my roommates gradually began to expose their "nature", and bad living habits gradually emerged. But some people explained why they suddenly attacked in their sophomore year: "I'm not very familiar with the freshman year, I'm embarrassed to point it out, but seeing that she is getting worse, I can't bear it anymore."

In the "Smart Door Life" of the Douban group, some people compared the dormitory relationship of four years in college to a parabola:

Be polite when I was in my freshman year,

Be war frequently in my sophomore year,

Be eased when I was in my junior year, and

Be reluctant to leave when I was in my senior year.

What kind of experience does it mean to meet a good roommate?

Fortunately, the probability of meeting strange roommates is not very high. According to our survey, only 9.2% of the respondents felt "relatively dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with their college roommates. Correspondingly, 60.2% of people have good relationships in dormitories and often move together.

Among them, 78.5% of roommates will help each other bring meals and get express delivery, and more than 75% of roommates with good relationships will go to and finish classes and have dinner together. After all, the relationship between roommates who can eat together will not be too bad.

For example, in 2017, Anhui Medical University A photo of a junior student picking 8 takeouts with a bamboo pole became popular on the Internet. The food and drink of 8 people in the dormitory was solved by this "fried brother" alone, and netizens praised him as a "good Chinese roommate".

Of course, the things brought by good roommates have never been just about lazy benefits such as "food is open to your mouth".

In the questionnaire initiated by The Paper, more than half of the respondents in said that their roommates had a positive impact on their college life and even their childbirth, and more than 300 of them shared specific stories on .

The most common theme is: roommates will motivate themselves to study hard and make themselves more motivated.

School of Design Arts and Media, Nanjing University of Science and Technology In an interview with the media, Pei mentioned that four people in his undergraduate dormitory chose "graduate study" as their future goal when filling out the questionnaire in their undergraduate dormitory. Because of their similar learning habits, they often form teams to study in the dormitory, and finally all of them were qualified for admission to graduate school.

Someone also mentioned that I was lucky enough to meet roommates who changed their living habits, such as being inspired by my roommates to go to bed early and get up early, and taking them to exercise together.

So some people will say that university is a plastic surgery house, and roommates will influence each other and witness the whole process of "plastic surgery" from bare face to heavy makeup, from fat people to eight-pack abs.

In addition, some people believe that roommates can not only affect their study and lifestyle habits, but also complement each other's personalities. In the survey, many people said that they would be influenced by the "working", "positive", "optimistic" and "confident" personality and qualities of their roommates. Some people successfully survived the trough of their lives with the support and company of their roommates.

As a transition period from campus to entering society, in the years of college, it is not long or short. Meeting good roommates may benefit you for life, and when you meet strange roommates, you must also learn to "survive the fittest." But no matter what the ending is, this time will be the most unforgettable time in life.

References

1. China Engineering Network - "Chengdu University Questionnaire Matching New Roommates and Dormitories", http://www.workercn.cn/c/2022-08-24/7143662.shtml

2. Shen Chen - "Fudan University: When Informationization is Applied to the Allocation of New Students' Dormitories", https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/V1XSBcwXVZ47U5QcB5tKeA

3. Beijing News - "Nanjing University New Students' Branch Door Room "Big Data" Helps Find Roommates", https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/155153179714460.htmlhtml

4. Beijing Youth Daily - Is it reliable to find "soul roommates" in the "College Freshman's Questionnaire"? 》, http://m.xinhuanet.com/edu/2019-08/30/c_1210261996.html

Editor: Lu Yan

Proofreading: Zhang Liangliang