<p>Friendships that last throughout college (and often beyond) may begin on a freshman dorm floor.</p>
<p>If you and your best friend live on different floors or in different buildings, you have two floors worth of potential friends to choose from.</p>
<p>One of my kids and a close high school friend of the same sex attended the same university. They did not room together because one wanted a single and the other did not. (Singles are available for freshmen at this particular college.) My kid’s dorm floor turned out to be a dud. The people there tended to keep to themselves, and they didn’t share my kid’s interests. But the other kid’s dorm floor was full of interesting people. My kid met them while spending time with her high school friend and ended up becoming close friends with several of them. In fact, some of those friendships have continued to the present day, three and a half years after graduation.</p>
<p>There can be advantages to keeping up your friendship with your high school buddy but not rooming with that person.</p>