Living Together

Sharing a room with a total stranger, or even your best friend, is a new experience for many people. Since you may have had your own room at home, sharing a room will require you to make some adjustments. You and your roommate will need to sit down early on and discuss each other’s preferences. How will you handle visitors? What are agreeable hours to have friends over? Are you a morning or a night person? What type of music do you each prefer? All of these things, and many more, need to be discussed. The most important aspect of developing a positive relationship with your roommate is effective communication. Make a commitment to talk to each other when issues or situations arise. RAs will facilitate the roommate agreement process at the first floor meeting.

Room Changes

A happy and compatible roommate situation is an important aspect of college life. We hope that your assigned roommate turns out to be the perfect one. Because there are almost no vacancies early in the semester, no room changes can be made until after two full weeks of class, provided that space is available. Changes within a hall may be made with approval of your hall director. Moves to other halls may be made only with approval from the Reservation Center. Although a limited number of room changes may be possible during the fall semester, inter- and intra-building can be best made at midyear.

Living in a Residence Hall Community

Students from many different backgrounds and cultures come together to build their “community” at CU-Boulder, and the residence hall becomes an important part of this community. There are standards of conduct for living in a residence hall. Each student is challenged to take on these standards for his or her own individual success and the success of the community. Residents will be expected to follow the guidelines for quiet hours and courtesy hours. When the actions of residents interfere with the learning environment, each member of the community is expected to challenge those actions. The resident advisor staff will be available to help the community maintain a good academic environment.

The standards include federal, state of Colorado and local laws regarding the possession and use of alcohol and illegal drugs, including marijuana. Students under 21 are not permitted to possess or consume alcohol, and may not be present in a room where other students are drinking alcohol. Smoking marijuana or being present in a room where others are smoking marijuana is also not permitted.

Students who are contacted for violations of these community standards are subject to disciplinary action, including removal from the hall and other university sanctions. For more information on the standards of conduct in the residence halls, see the Elements website and the CU Student Conduct Code. top