Rooming With A Total Stranger Analysis

Anna Altman has published an article called “A College education should include rooming with a total stranger” on “The New York Times” website trying to find out, how good is it for students to share a room with someone, you've never seen before. In the article, the author lets us have her research about all negative and positive effects of rooming with a total stranger. She says that college is a great part of everyone’s life where people have to learn not only how to solve math problems or analyze a piece of literature but also how to communicate with other people. It will help students with their personal life and with their work. The author says, that ”Life with someone who differ from you marks a tremendous opportunity for impressionable young people to expand horizons and open eyes in extremely important ways». However, there is an opposite opinion considering this problem. The author says, that some people claim that a person should be allowed to choose his or her roommate because college is a very stressful place, where students have to have a calm place, like their rooms, which they can share with someone who is close to him/her. Now, more and more universities try to hire companies like RoomSynk, which suppose to help
On the one hand, I understand, that it would be fun to get to know new people and try to communicate with them. I consider myself as a non-conflictive person who can live with anyone(except someone who leaves her hair everywhere). For example, our tennis team is very diverse and I have to cope with everyone; I don't have any problems with it. Plus, it expands person's horizon if he or she sharing a room with a total stranger; it will «get yanks out of your comfort zone, which is, after all, one of the main points of college». After all, college is a new life, kind of «blank space» where you can change everything. What can be better than changing your whole