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The piece surveyed the challenges all colleges and universities face in building community among strangers.

One not-so-secret tool that the Residence Life Office (RLO) staff uses to ensure first-year students get off to a great start: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

С����Ƶ has used the well-known personality test to assess roommate compatibility since the 1980s. (Archival documents indicate it was phased in around 1986.)

The Myers-Briggs assesses four characteristics of personality, but С����Ƶ RLO staff members pay most attention to, “where the individual falls on the extroversion-introversion scale.”

The long-standing practice has helped С����Ƶ build cohesive roommate pairs and even entire halls.

As The Atlantic writes, “At С����Ƶ, the majority of students go on to live with their freshmen roommates as upperclassmen, according to Jason Shaffer, the college’s associate dean of students.”