<p>I'm currently a freshman in college and I feel like some advice would be great. To start off, I'm a guy and I don't party/drink because I could care less about it. I have before, but I've had terrible experiences with it and decided it wasn't for me and decided to stop. My roommate however is the complete opposite and does it almost everyday. I honestly could care less about the fact that he does it; I know that this is college and 99% (exaggeration but you get the point) of people do stuff like that in college. The reason I'm writing this if more of a- has anyone experienced this- kind've thing. I also feel extremely bad for the fact that we're completely opposite so i'm usually out of the room most of the day. He's a great guy, but I would feel bad being in the room if he wanted to do stuff. But on another end, I feel like it's also both of our rooms and I shouldn't care what he thinks. So has anyone else experience this before? I feel so alone in that I feel like i'm the only one who doesn't go out on the weekends. </p>
<p>I guess I don’t understand exactly what the problem is: you feel bad about being around him because you don’t want to drink with him?</p>
<p>If that’s the case- don’t worry about it. People have different interests in college and you can’t expect to be just like your roommate. One of my years I had two roommates (4 of us in a suite) that were big party-ers but it didn’t cause any conflict with myself and my roommate. We didn’t party with them but we’d still hand out and chat during the day, cook meals together, etc. You can always try to find something that both of you have in common (sports? video games?) and talk about that when you’re in the room together.</p>
<p>And also, you can always stick it out and get a new roommate next year. After reading some of the topics on here, your roommate situation isn’t so bad ;)</p>