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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by ghaff on Saturday August 11, 2018 @03:55PM (#17741244)
Maybe your partner has a single room. Or, as others have mentioned, you make arrangements with roommates to stay out of the room for a bit--and maybe someone stays quietly overnight and the roommate tactfully avoids paying attention.

Trust me. Roommates are very common in US undergrad housing and students manage to indulge in, um, romantic behavior just fine. If there's a willing participant of the opposite (or same) sex, life will find a way.

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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by chrisseaton on Saturday August 11, 2018 @04:07PM (#17741284)
Right. It just doesn't seem something an adult in a relationship should really have to do.
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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by ghaff on Saturday August 11, 2018 @04:28PM (#17741350)
I didn't want (and didn't have) even housemates after school. Maybe it's a cultural thing (don't really know the norms in other countries, see you went to school in the UK), but having roommates through at least part of your time at US residential colleges is almost obligatory. And, as others have noted, it's often seen as part of the experience of transitioning to college.
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