Choosing who to live with in the second year of university can be tough, especially as there isn’t really one best way to do it. It doesn’t help that this time of year is tricky as you're trying to get all your first-year work done and prepare for exams, in addition to thinking about who you want to live with.
Don’t worry if you’ve not got it sorted yet, as you should have at least until March to decide who you're living with. If that process is tricky though, then here are some tips I’ve learned from my experience.
Choose friends from your course
I live with three other students on my course who I was friends with throughout the whole of first year. Around February we were all talking about how worried we were about finding a place next year and decided then that we would live together. Once we'd decided on that, finding a house was fairly simple.
Living together has been pretty straightforward too. It helps that we were already friends, so we knew we would work well together when all under one roof. One thing to watch out for, however, is that there's a difference between someone being a friend and someone being ideal to live with, but you sometimes have to take the risk and see. If you’re really good friends with someone but you could see your living styles clashing too much (maybe they’re messy and you’re not), you might want to consider living with someone else.
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