Fantab, my advice would be to choose the type of housing you prefer, even if it means you won't be with your friends. I know too many people who were best friends when they started rooming together but became fed up with each other over the course of the year, and even if you end up hating the person you live with, you're still stuck in the same room as you were when you were friends with them.
Ugh, housing. I think I submit my housing lottery form in a couple of weeks, and I'm not really looking forward to it. I mean, I know I want to live with my current roommate again next year and I have a pretty good idea of what buildings we want to try for, but our year is getting f**ked over so badly with the lotto.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms