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Seriously? Living with someone is not always fun and games. It is helpful to come up with a personal list of what you are looking for in a potential roommate. This can help you avoid future conflicts and awkward roommate situations.
Nick Barry thought living with four other guys would be great. He would be able to do whatever he wanted. It would be like a big party all the time. "Plus, I figured we didn't have to deal with any drama since it was just us guys," Barry, St. Louis, Mo., senior says. "I was wrong."
Within the first six months of their lease, Barry's iPod was stolen by one of his roommates, another one of his roommates threw up on his bed during a party and someone who decided to swap the detergent with bleach ruined his clothes. "There was constant drama in our house," Barry says. "I put up with it until I walked in on one of my roommates having sex with some girl on my bed after I had asked everybody to stay out of my room." Later that day Barry packed up his stuff and moved in with another friend from school.
Living with other people is a part of college life. Sometimes, it's a good experience. Other times, like in Barry's case, it's not so great. Learning how to handle roommates before you move in will help make your experience a good one.
FOR STARTERS: THE LIST
Nick Torres and his cousin, Jessie Torres, moved in with each other last July without making the list. They found out the hard way just how different they really were after they started living together." We had different ideas about everything," Nick Torres, Overland Park senior, says. "We didn't agree on cleaning the apartment, who could come over and how we would divide groceries."
"The best way to decide whether or not you and a potential roommate will be a good fit is to make a list of what is important to you in a roommate and decide what your needs and desires are," says Kathie Nichols, a Lawrence child and family psychologist.
Choosing a roommate is a big decision and it's important to choose carefully because you could be stuck with your decision for the next year. Just because you like somebody doesn't mean the person will make a good roommate.
Nick says Jessie always invited his friends over and they would eat all of their food. "It pissed me off because they didn't help pay for groceries so all my money basically went to feed his friends."
The list needs to be specific, Nichols says. If you only study between midnight and 2 a.m. because you work late, you need to write that down. If your potential roommate happens to be a big party, you might have problems with your schedules. If you want roommates who do their own dishes on a daily basis so the kitchen stays clean, you need to write that down. "Writing every little detail down may seem like you are overdoing it, but you can avoid a lot of problems up front if you take the time to do it," Nichols says.
each make a list, you need to sit down and compare them. There is always room for compromise, but if you notice big differences in what each of you want, maybe living together isn't such a great idea.
Jessie says that he and Nick make great cousins, but not great roommates. "I think we will get along much better after we don't live together anymore," Jessie, Wichita junior
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says. "We just have different ideas about how we should do things so we don't mesh well."
When deciding to move out on your own, choosing to live with a close friend can seem like a great idea. However, living with a close friend can have its downfalls, too. Just ask Jessica Novak and her best friend, Chloe Sanders.
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When Novak and Sanders decided they were both attending KU after high school, they were thrilled. "We started apartment hunting right away," Novak, Kansas City senior, says. "We were so excited. We didn't think about anything except how fun it was going to be." That is until they actually moved into their two-bedroom apartment at Hawks Pointe. They both started to discover things about each other they didn't like in a roommate,
"Well (getting the ball to Davis) has always been the message. Then the lane gets more crowded. Ten people living in a one-bedroom apartment-that is what it looks like in there," Henrickson said.
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Missouri and Kansas traded buckets before RaeShara Brown and BreAnna Brock made back-toback jumpers to spark Missouri's 15-0 run.
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Sophomore guard Angel Goodrich fires off a three-pointer during the last minutes of the second half. Goodrich was one of two Jayhawks in the double figures with 10 points and dished out a team-high six assists.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Selby's talent paves the road to team's success
During his first 11 games, Selby had his ups and downs. The way he plays the remainder of the season will be key for Kansas.
BY TIM DWYER
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Freshman guard Josh Selby is the key. Ask an expert — any really, from SI to ESPN to CBS to The University Daily Kansan and on — about who is most essential to Kansas' success, and you'll likely get that answer. Selby is the key.
So while it's nice for Kansas that
Brady Morningstar scored in double figures for the first time in just under a calendar year, and it's good that Marcus Morris is arguably the best player in the Big 12, and it's a little frustrating
Self has spelled out Selby's essentialnessto the Kansas offense a number of times. Kansas has a bushel of talented guards. Tyshawn
"It's huge for him," Morningstar said. "Of course, in the first half he came out hot, and that's what we needed. He hasn't been like that for a while, and it's good for him to get his stuff rolling."
that Tyrel Reed couldn't buy a shot Tuesday at Colorado, that all goes by the wayside in looking at the box score.
5-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.
"It's good to see Josh be aggressive. Josh hasn't been aggressive at all."
The eyes fix on Selby's stat line, which, after so many games of struggling from the field, saw a whiplash-inducing reversal of the trend. Selby hit 7-of-14 shots (3-of-6 from three) for 17 points to go along with four rebounds and a
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Taylor's better than most in the country at getting into the lane and kicking to an open shooter on the wing. Reed and, now, Morningstar are the benefactors of
Taylor's skills. Both are also spot shooters and steady caretakers of the ball. Elijah Johnson is somewhere in between those three. He's a sniper from outside with the help of Reed and Morningstar and possesses Taylor's athleticism.
But no one on the roster, not even Morris, has Seiby's talent for taking a broken play and turning it into points. The scouting report
Because he can mix his shots so drastically, Selby becomes the toughest matchup on the Kansas roster, but only when he's on, which has recently been rare. Which is why Tuesday—apart from bouncing back from a loss, picking up a half-game on Texas and winning without the grieving Thomas Robinson—was huge for Selby.
on Selby is that he can catch-and-shoot, score off the dribble, post on a guard and can shoot from well outside the three-point line.
That's why at practice Monday, Self told Selby to stop thinking so much and just be aggressive. It's not something coaches tell a lot of freshmen — there's an inherent risk of turnovers and sloppy play included with that — but not many freshmen have Selby's talent.
"It's good to see Josh be aggressive," Self said. "Josh hasn't been aggressive at all."
And Selby's responding well.
"I was playing not to make mistakes," Selby said. "Now since I had that conversation with coach, everything's fine."
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more likely Tyrel Reed is to put up bigger numbers.
No offense to UMKC, Michigan, and Miami (OH), but these teams aren't of the caliber that the Big XII teams are. With regards to Michigan, who put up a hell of a fight, none of the aforementioned schools would succeed in the Big XII, which makes the case for Reed all that more interesting. At the end of a close game, it seems like Reed is one to come up in the clutch, as further evidenced by his two free throws against Colorado on Tuesday to put KU up by four, and the game out of reach for the Buffaloes.
In the loss to Texas, Reed put up some of his best numbers of the season. His 34 minutes tied his second highest total this season. His 17 points and 6 rebounds also tied his second highest totals of the season.
Reed also has the highest free throw percentage on the team at 85.4% (35-41), which if he stays at this pace would be his highest career average, second to the 83.3% that Reed shot from the line last year.
It's becoming increasingly evident that when the going gets tough, Tyrel Reed goes going.
It isn't just his stats that make Tyrel Reed a threat; Reed has the intangibles that make him a more than noteworthy weapon on the KU offense.
Reed is never one to quit on a play, and always hustles back hard to play defense; he can shoot the three from just about anywhere on offense, and always seems to get the last second pass for a wide-open shot.
On a team full of talented leaders, as most Bill Self coached teams are, Tyrel Reed is as poised a leader as they come. When the game is on the line I can't think of one person on the roster I would substitute for Reed. His stats don't lie. If it's crunch time, look out for "La Flama Blanca" to ignite.
Edited by Brittany Nelson