As this year’s seniors commit to their respective colleges, they begin the next step in their college journeys— finding roommates.  Although many students choose to find roommates using a random method done at their school, an increasing number of students are choosing to find their roommates through social media networks, a method eerily similar to that of online dating.

Here are seven steps you can use to find your roommate-match-made-in-heaven.

1. Roomsurf (aka match.com for roommates)

A social media resource for matching people with potentially compatible roommates, Roomsurf really is just a match.com you can use to find roommates.  In fact, both surveys even ask you questions like “What’s your sexuality?” and “How close do you want to be to your spouse/roommate?”

2. Borderline obsessive social media stalking

Once you find someone who might be your match, naturally the next step is making sure he or she is the one for you by stalking that person’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  Whether it is Potential Roommate or Potential Bae, key points when stalking are the same. (What does this person like to do on weekends?  Does this person seem nice? Does it look like we would be cute together?)

3. Contacting Potential Roommate/Bae

Once you decide if someone seems like he or she could be the perfect match for you, the next step is reaching out to Potential Roommate so you can flirt— never mind, “talk”– through Facebook Messenger.  As a bonus, you and this person may even follow each other on other forms of social media. Maggie Collins, senior who will be attending Indiana University in the fall, added, “When your future roommate likes your Instagram post, you know it’s real, just like if bae likes your Instagram post.”

4. Heartbreak when not a match

When talking to your roommate crush, he, she or you may realize that the two of you are not compatible.  Just like any breakup, a common reason for this is, “it’s not you; it’s me.  I hope we can be friends though!” Inevitably, this calamity will bring heartbreak, so break out the Ben & Jerry’s and sad romantic movies while you mourn.

5. Blind date

If things do work out, you will probably want to meet in person to make sure Potential Roommate isn’t a creepy old man pretending to be someone else like you’ve heard of on all those horror stories of online dating.  Ann Price, senior who is attending University of Wisconsin next year, said that this meeting is important because “you can decide whether or not you want to put up with them for the next year of your life, or like with online dating, decide if you want to commit to a real relationship.”

6. The Room-posal

If it’s true love, Potential Roommate or you will decide to pop the question of whether the two of you should be roommates.  Collins remembers the moment her Potential Roommate became her Future Roommate, saying, as she wiped away her tears, that, “Being asked was just as beautiful of a moment as getting a 14 karat diamond ring placed on my finger.”

7. Move in together

Finally, you have found your roommate.  Although there might not be a lavish wedding ceremony, the joy you feel next fall on move-in day might just equate the jubilation one feels when saying, “I do.”  Now, the two of you can start the rest of your life— or year– together.