End-of-Year Roomie Eval

By Francine Fluetsch on April 28, 2016

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The school year is boiling down to the last month, or for some of you, that last couple of days! It sure has flown by, huh? Now would be the perfect time to do an end-of-year roomie eval. What can you use this for? It is actually handy for multiple reasons. Whether this is your first time living with other people or not, you’ve surely learned a lot about yourself and the people who you have roomed with over the course of the year.

Using these categories of evaluation, you can evaluate yourself and see how you can become a better roommate, and/or evaluate your roommate to see if you want to live with them again and/or compile a list for yourself of all the things you hated about living with the person or people you live with to show to your next roommates and make sure that the problems don’t keep happening.

Let’s see how you and your roommate fare on the point scale. (You are allowed to assign half points if they sometimes do things).

Cleanliness: 10 points total

Helping with chores (2 points)Helping with chores consists of either agreeing to follow a chore chart and doing said chores on the chart for any given week, or taking the initiative and cleaning aspects of the house that need cleaning. While the house/apartment can get a little messy at times, it never gets to the point where you don’t want to live there anymore.

Your score: 

Roommate’s score:

Hygiene (2 points) – Hygiene is definitely an important factor of living with someone. While you don’t need to be yelling at them if they don’t shower every day, are both you and your roommate following basic hygiene enough to where the room doesn’t smell like B.O.? The fact that this even has to be on this shows that a lot of roommates can’t pass this category. How do you fare? Basic hygiene includes: showering, brushing teeth, and putting on deodorant.

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Pitching in for cleaning supplies (2 points) – If you want the place clean, you are going to need the supplies to do so. Are you both pretty good at trading off who has to buy the bleach next and things like that, or is one person buying everything and the other just sometimes uses it?

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Quality of cleaning (4 points) – Okay, this is a huge one! Even if you are being good and trading off who cleans what, is the quality of cleaning good? Some people consider the bathroom clean after simply running a Clorox wipe over the counter, while others deep clean with bleach and make the place sanitized again. While you don’t have to deep clean every time, you want cleaning skills that actually show you did something to make the surface clean.

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Noise levels: 7 points total

Respect of a sleeping roommate (5 points) – This one gets a whopping five points because it is so important! Sleep is the one thing you can’t really go anywhere else to do; you have to go back to your room. So, are you and your roommate respectful when the other is trying to sleep? Or do you still watch TV loudly or have people over and pretend that they won’t hear it? Do you try and use a smaller light if you still have to study while they need some shuteye, or are you not opposed to keeping the main light on?

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Study time (2 points) – While the room is a communal space and both should be able to blast music and have a good time, are you more conscious of noise during midterms and finals, especially if you see your roommate studying in the room? While studying, does one of you feel like you have to go to the library if you ever want some peace and quiet?

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Social endeavors: 4 points total

Sleepover buddies (2 points)Is someone who doesn’t live in your place constantly sleeping over? I’m not talking about once in a while, more like every day? Is it bothering you or your roommate? If the person is overstaying their welcome, this can be a huge conflict point for roommates. Does your roommate clear it with you if someone is going to be spending the night?

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

It’s a party? (2 points) – Everyone enjoys a good party, but is it always at your place? Are people constantly in your place until the crack of dawn, always making noise and a mess? While it’s nice to be known as the social butterfly, the people you live with might not be down to be coming home to a party every night.

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Respect for items: 6 points total

Sharing food/not sharing food (3 points) – Do you and your roommate respect boundaries when it comes to food? If you’ve decided to share, do you feel as though you both buy an equal amount? Or does one person buy most of it while the other happily eats along with them? If you both said you wouldn’t share food, do either of you ever sneak something, or do you hold true to the agreement?

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Asking before taking (3 points) – If your roommate isn’t home and you need a stapler, do you just use theirs or do you text them first? This might be a silly example, but some people really don’t want others going through their stuff unless they say it’s okay. Common shared things that you might have to ask to use would be: printer, plates/ pans/ kitchen-y things, school supplies, cooking spices, and so on. If it’s not yours, do you respect it? And if you were to break something that wasn’t yours, would you tell the other person?

Your score:

Roommate’s score:

Total score:

Your score out of 27:

Roommate’s score out of 27:

So how did you do? There are of course more factors to consider, but this will give you a pretty good gauge of information, both on yourself and the person you currently live with.

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