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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Wishbone1254 on 2026-07-08 14:46:17+00:00.
Four months ago, my dorm building was heavily pushing for residents to pre-register if they wanted to lock in a spot to have a dorm for the next semester after summer is done.
I went ahead, filled everything out, and submitted my pre-registration. Because the portal was a bit confusing, I assumed that was the entire process. Just to be absolutely sure, I even asked my roommate, and he said he did the exact same thing. I even went down to talk to the staff at the front desk to confirm. They explicitly told me to just continue the application path I was on and not to make a completely new one, so I trusted them and left it alone.
I just found out two days ago that the 13th of July is when the roommate matching portal closes. When I logged in to check on things, my stomach completely dropped. I found out I got waitlisted. When I called the housing office in a panic, they told me that all I had actually completed was the initial pre-registration step, and I never actually submitted the final official application.
My massive fuckup was blindly trusting the front desk staff and my roommate instead of obsessively double-checking the portal or calling the main management office to verify that my status said “submitted.” Now, I am exactly one month away from school starting, the deadlines are locking down, and I am completely fucked with absolutely no dorm secured. Love my life.
TL;DR: Trusted my roommate and the dorm front desk staff when they said my housing pre-registration was all I needed to do. Found out months later that I never filed the actual application, got waitlisted, and now I’m homeless for the upcoming semester in a month.