Roommate Opportunism
At the beginning of this year, I moved into my new apartment with 3 friends. I was mistaken regarding the data which the semester started, and I ended up on campus a week earlier than my other roommates. Another one of my roommates was even more confused, and ended up moving in a day earlier than I did. However, my roommate chose one of the smaller and seemingly less desirable rooms in which to live. As a result, I was able to claim the largest room for myself. I thought this was odd, and confronted him about it. It turns out that he preferred the natural sunlight that lit up the room to extra space that he most likely would not use. In this case, my roommate acted in a way that he thought was opportunistic and I did not, due to our differing preferences. Where I preferred to have the biggest room, he preferred the room lit with natural sunlight and a beautiful view. One way to have allocated rooms effectively was for all of my roommates to have ranked our room preferences and ...
