My freshman dorm was un-airconditioned in Austin! No choice on roommate, mine was OK, but his had issues. I moved into the frat house after one semester in the dorm. Our fraternity supervisor happened to be the director of housing at UT so I magically got out of my unbreakable dorm contract mid-year
All my roommates after that were fraternity brothers and life long friends. They all got the short end of the stick with their roommate but at least they got their cars and motorcycles fixed for free.