| Many students have to live with classmates while going to school or university. What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? Use specific reasons and examples to explain why these qualities are important. |
| 267/5.0 I have no experience of living with someone else except for my parents. I live in Japan and in Japan, having a roommate is not so popular. Most of the high school students live with their parents, and most of the university students live alone in their small apartment. So I must imagine qualities of a good roommate. I guess it depends on whether the roommate is the same gender with us. Of course there are rules that are common among both s and boys. For instance, not to be too noisy. That is the most principle rule if we want to live with someone else. So it can be one of the most important qualities of a good roommate. But if the roommate is a different gender from us, we have to make another strict rule to have a peaceful life. If we live with someone else, we could know his/her private life without our intension. If our roommate's gender is differnt from us, this problem matters so much. Our roommate might have a boy/girlfriend, in that case, he/she would feel uncomfortable that we live with the roommate. This is mainly because the emotion of jerousy. Jerousy is the feeling that we want to have what you have. We have to solve this problem at first if we live with a roommate whose gender is differnt from us. On the other hand, if the roommate is the same , there mihght be another problem. For example, we must decide the time when we can use the room privately. That is, what time we can use the room with our boy/girlfriend. In that time, our roommate must get out of the room and waste their time elsewhere. And if the roommate wants to use our room with his/her partner, we must go away from the room. In conclusion, flexibility is the most important quality of a good roommate. We must change our own coustom according to the situation. We need to suit ourselves to the life with other person. That might not be so easy for all of us, because we have our own rhythms and life cycles. So I think flexibility is the most important asset to be a good roommate. |