I’ve had good roommates and bad roommates.

My first roommate was all like “we’re going to be such great friends blah blah” the first week of school… then proceeded to ignore me the rest of the semester. There were days that we didn’t even say one word to each other. Nothing happened, there were no bad feelings, she just didn’t have any interest in getting to know me or spending time with me. She moved out the next semester but didn’t even bother to tell me, my RA was the one to tell me instead. So I spent the second semester alone.

The next year I had an awesome roommate. We ended up becoming very good friends; even though we were completely different and totally different personalities, we still had a lot of fun together.

I was supposed to live with that roommate again last year but she transfered so I ended up with another semester alone until another girl moved in with me. We had a weird relationship, at times we got along great and at other times we totally clashed. It wasn’t the best of situations.

This summer I had three great roommates. We had a blast together.

This year I’ll be living with one of my closest friends who I’ve known since freshman year… I know we’ll do fine together.

I’ve had friends with roommates who are thieves… that’s not fun. Fortunately I go to a Christian college where no alcohol is allowed on campus so there’s not as much partying as some schools (although I’ve known several people who still like to go out and get drunk on the weekends.)

If you get the right roommate, dorm life can be awesome. Either way though, it’s a good living experience. I’d recommend staying in a dorm at least one year, I think you miss out a lot by not living on campus.

I’ve only had one roommate so far, but she and I might as well be sisters. We have a lot in common, and what we don’t have in common, we embrace and learn from. We come from very different backgrounds, but can stay up late laughing together and having a good time.

We work together, and sometimes it is hard because she goes to sleep earlier than I do, but we talked about having people over and what not before we moved in and open up if we have an issue with something.

Both of us are going to college to get an education, so we study, but sometimes we go to the library to give the other person some privacy.

However, we’ll also go to some parties together or out on our own with other friends.

There’s much more to living in a dorm than just your roommate though, your neighbors are your peers, and you won’t find anythin like that anywhere else.

I completely recommend living in the dorms, at least for a year.

When I first lived away, I was 21 so I was placed in the campus apartments. Typically there were four people per apartment, 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom, a kitchen, and a common area/living room. Two of my roommates were great. One would order food and without even asking me, just order something extra for me. I would offer him money and most of the time he refused to take it. However later on that semester, another person moved in with us. (It started out with just the three of us). I had nothing against the guy personally, but he was just very difficult to live with. Also, he was a smoker and smoked in the apartment and having asthma, that was very bad news for me. He was also the type that would have people over and they would be sitting on my bed and everything and that used to aggravate me. I am just someone who needs their personal space and really don’t like people sitting on my bed! Later on that semester, I had asked to be switched out of that apartment and was lucky enough to be given a single room in an upperclass building. I switched rooms a few times in that building but stayed in there for the rest of the time I was in college. It was nice because you always had your own privacy in your room but you can go to other people’s rooms or the kitchen area to talk to your friends, etc.

My freshman year I had to live in the dorms with one roommate. We got along sufficiently, but we had completely opposite personalities. We talked, but we never hung out and after freshman year I haven’t spoken to him since. You don’t have to be best friends with your roommate, but you at least need to have mutual respect.