Sometimes, finding privacy requires makingadjustment. Marta R. Weiss '96 says she islearning to balance her relationship with WilliamG. Ferullo '96 and that her roomming situation ismuch better this year.

"I treated my room like a depository lastyear," she says.

But this year, Weiss says, "I am weary of nottreating my room and my roommates like that. Weeat a lot of meals together. I try and spend a lotof time in my room.

Having a roommate in a relationship can befrustrating, particularly when it means thatfriends see less of one another.

Alexis A. Zubrow '96 shares a triple withJoshua L. Oppenheimer '96, who is planning to getmarried this month to Catherine S. Corman '96.

"In the beginnning we were a little confusedand we missed him some," Zubrow says. "There aretimes that we are 'sex-iled.'"

Zubrow adds that the issue is not a bigproblem.

"But it's just what makes him happy so it makesus happy," Zubrow says.

Both Zachary Gozali '96 and Jonathan C.Korngold '96 have serious relationships, thoughtheir third roommate, Sean H. Cohan '96, does not.Korngold's girlfriend, Janie A. Ho '96, evenblocked with all three of them last year.

"I guess we're not as close," says Cohan,"because we'd probably spend more time together[if Zach and Jon didn't have girlfriends]."

At first, Cohan says, he and Korngold wereangry with Gozali because they felt they didn'thave a third roommate.

"Zach, at times, is away for extended periodsof time," Cohan says.

And Gozali acknowledges that his relationshipcan be a problem with his roommates. But becausehe and his roommates live in Currier House, Gozalisays he can't see them as much because hisgirlfriend lives in a river house.

"My roommates are really mad that I spend toomuch time at Leverett," Gozali says.

Of course, there are ways of getting aroundroommate problems. If there is no privacy forintimate acts in a dorm room, Miller says Harvardoffers "many great places to [have sex]."