<p>roommates can be a toss up. i dont know to many guys who were best friends, or at least really good friends, with their roommate. i was friendly with my room and suitemates at first, but by they end of the year we didnt talk much. i thought i wanted a roommate but i wished i had single. chances are you wont be that good of friends with your roommate. a good roommate doesnt make that much of a difference i think, but a bad roommate sucks. luckily mine moved out after the first semester and i got a double to myself</p>
<p>I don’t think freshman year roommates are that big of a deal. On paper, my freshman roommate and I should have been bffls (both nerdy, more quiet girls, interested in similar things, etc) but in person we were completely different. She went to bed every night at 10:30, I usually go ~11 but get insomnia sometimes and no matter how quiet I tried to be/little light I tried to use I almost always ended up bothering her 
She was also super super studious and preferred spending time alone in our room with silence so she could study all the time while I like to go out sometimes and like having people over to watch tv/work on stuff together.</p>
<p>Overall she was a nice person and we had plenty of lovely conversations but we were just too different. I interviewed her for a project this year and we’re still FB friends but we rarely, if ever, talk. Out of the three other girls I lived with this year, two of them haaaated their freshman year roomies and the other was still casual friends with hers, but not bffl level.</p>
<p>So I don’t think it really matters, just try to respect the other person’s lifestyle/space and be as polite as you can 
You’ll make friends other places throughout campus anyhow!</p>