Recently, several of my friends are discussing about renting an apartment next year. Being a freshman as I am, it is recommended to live in a dorm for the whole semester. Dormitory rooms at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have three types: single room, shared by two students and shared by three students. At the beginning of the semester, we had had a chance to require the university housing to arrange a certain classmate to share the room with us. But also, some students like me, are willing to let the university assign a student to share a room with you, in random.
Living in the dormitory means a new start for the majority of the university freshmen. The students are looking forward to the different life while they are also concerned about the roommates they are to live with. Some students would like to stay with who they like and they are familiar with, others would rather share a room with someone distributed by the university. As far as I am concerned, the latter opinion is better for three reasons below.
To begin with, living with a native speaker provides a natural language environment for me and it is a stimulus for my English studying. Language is always the primary burden for international students like me. If stay with a native speaker, I will have to speak English everyday. Gradually, I will be used to speak English at any time. This is better than if I choose a Chinese student to live with me. My roommate is really a nice person as she cares about me and always tries to have more conversation with me. Indeed, I pushed myself really hard to express myself and make my sentences meaningful.
Secondly, to live with someone chosen by the university enables me to communicate with students from all over the world and thus we may learn from each other's unique culture without travelling there. Communications between roommates is a method for us to develop deeper understandings about cultures around the world. I believe that such experiences will definitely be an impressive part during university life. My roommate is a Philippine, but she grows up in USA. So she is quite different from the other Whites. She told me that her family used to have rice as their staple food, and it is much more like what I it back to my hometown rather than what the American’s recipes.
Last but not least, if the university assigns a local student for me, I may get accustomed to the local society as well as the life style more easily and quickly. For example, Joyce, one of my best friends, has studied in the USA for a year. She lives with a local American student assigned by the university. At first, he could hardly accommodate the way of living there, but after a few months, she was amazed to find out that she just acted like a local resident.
To conclude, I suggest that living with a student assigned by university is a better choice, for I can not only improve my English, have an insightful understanding of local culture, but migrate into local life as well.
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