Roommies

The odds are that you will end up living with a roommate, either in the dormitories your first year or in your later years of college. Most likely this will be the first time you have lived with a roommate and although there are many things you may expect there are also many other aspects which you may not. You may come home to your roommate playing kickball in the dorm hallway, which although a fun game is not incredibly conducive to you getting a good nights sleep before your 8 am class. On the other hand you may have a roommate that is essentially nocturnal and does most of their studying between two and six in the morning and insists the only way the study well is with Jersey shore in the background at high volumes. Then again you could have a roommate that requires a minimum of twelve hours of “beauty sleep” a day in order to function properly. You could have a roommate who believes they are a gourmet but still hasn’t got down their recipes, cooking times, or how to clean up after any of it. The opposite and often more common roommate is the student whose diet consists of 90% roman noodles. Whatever the case is I would be willing to bet that you yourself related to one of the previously mentioned qualities. My point being that most of the time for every odd trait you may see in your roommate they most likely see one in you; so come to the relationship open minded and try not to be the one who causes your shared living space to be deemed a biological hazard.