<p>And opposing, how many end up hating each other?
Estimations, but what would you personally assume?</p>
<p>My personal percentage is 25% friendships, 75% enemies. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was around 25% good friends, 25% enemies, and 50% not really caring.</p>
<p>I’ve always read that you shouldn’t go into it expecting or even wanting to make friends, roommates don’t have to be friends, just get along and be respectful. I’m actually hoping my friends will be extra-dorm, so I feel like my social life extends beyond my room</p>
<p>I’ve run the gamut.</p>
<p>My freshman year roommate and I ended up being really good friends that still hang out to this day. He was a randomly assigned roommate.</p>
<p>Sophomore year I ended up living in the dorms again with some guy I knew. We weren’t really friends but both needed a roommate so yeah. We ended up hating each other, although for very valid reasons he was a different person sophomore year than freshman year and had a lot of issues he didn’t really deal with. Didn’t stop me from hating the guy though.</p>
<p>Junior year I moved out to an apartment. It was me and two friends along with a guy we didn’t know that the apartment complex stuck us with since they only had 4 bedroom apartments available. I’m even better friends now than I was before with the two guys I already knew, and we had an absolute blast living together. (There’s a marked difference between living with someone in the same room and living with someone in the same apartment.) The fourth guy we never really talked to. He just hung out in his room or elsewhere. That was fine with us since he didn’t make messes or anything.</p>
<p>Senior year thanks to some screwups on both my and the idiotic apartment complex I lived in parts I ended up living with three random guys. None of us knew eachother going in. We never really hung out much since we all had our own friends, but we did hit up downtown a couple times. It was a good arrangement (to have as an upperclassman) because we all got along well enough and didn’t really get on eachother’s nerves.</p>
<p>pretty good friends with my roomie from last year.</p>
<p>I would say about 10% of roomies end up being best friends, 15-20% become not so fond of each other, and the rest are fine as acquaintances. This is just my opinion.</p>
<p>Something helpful going into it is the knowledge that you DO NOT NEED TO BE BEST FRIENDS WITH YOUR ROOMMATE. The Hallmark stories about freshman year roommates being in each others’ weddings are overexaggerated and often don’t represent actual roommate relationships. which are difficult. especially freshman year. As long as you two are respectful, talk/communicate frequently, and open to each others’ needs, it will be fine.</p>
<p>Also, I would encourage roommates to make different friend groups, just to avoid getting in each others’ friend group drama.</p>
<p>@chuy, why not keep rooming with your freshman roommate?</p>
<p>i think tolerating each other is fairly good. its not that its rare but don’t hope for more</p>
<p>66.6% friends; 33.3% I couldn’t care less if they dropped out of college tomorrow.</p>
<p>Pretty good friends with all of mine so far; any roommates I didn’t like I wouldn’t have liked even if we were not roommates.</p>
<p>100 % good friends so far. I loved my first roommate because we got along so well with each other. My second roommate is a good friend of mine and for the most part we get along very well but sometimes I just wish I had a single, but I guess that’s normal.</p>
<p>my freshman year roommate and I were pretty good friends. We still talk (and we just graduated). I picked my next 3 years worth of roommates so obviously we are good friends.</p>
<p>My first roommate and I are still dear friends many years later. I just wrote her a long letter yesterday!</p>
<p>The one time I had roomates, they called the cops on me…</p>
<p>I would say most are civil or casual friends. Most are not “good” friends, as in most don’t hang out much/go to parties together. Some have kept in touch with their old roommates, but not too many hangout with their freshmen year roommates (second-fourth year there are suites, 3rd and 4th yr off campus). I was the only one amongst my friends who hated my living situation, but my roommate moved in with her bf 2nd semester so it got a lot better. I’d say maybe 10% hate their roommate, 10-20% are good friends, the rest are either occasionally hang out or are indifferent.</p>
<p>Still great friends with my randomly-assigned freshman year roommate. I decided to room with another really close friend this upcoming year, but I’ll still be hanging out with my freshman year roommate a lot.</p>
<p>my roommate and i dislike each other, not really hate, but a friend and his roommate literally hate each other lol, usually things don’t go well when you go in random.</p>
<p>For me it was the opposite: me and two of my roommates started out as best friends and ended up as worst enemies. Well, I wouldn’t be so mad at one of them if they would actually acknowledge that I still exist and talk to me!</p>
<p>It really, really is true what they say- don’t room with friends. Even your most bestest truest friend in the whole wide world. Everything is so much more personal with best friends- everything from who you’re going to hang out with on the weekend to deciding it might be best to go to school elsewhere.</p>
<p>Hmm, let’s see…</p>
<p>First year: my roommate was a pretty cool guy, except he “unfriended” me on Facebook. LOL.</p>
<p>Second year: he was a pretty cool guy as well, and we had many similar interests. However, it’s pretty hard to get in touch with him because he stopped using AIM, and does not have Facebook.</p>
<p>Third year: meh.</p>
<p>Fourth year: I lived in a single room but shared my suite with three other people. They seemed pretty nice at first, but my watch disappeared on the last day of school, and I suspect one of them may have stolen it. Grr. :x</p>
<p>Fifth year: Again, I had a single room, with three other people in the room next door. They were just about the coolest folks I have ever met, and I still talk to them on the phone from time to time.</p>
<p>I had three other roommates when I took summer classes, but they were all international students, so it’s hard to stay friends with them.</p>
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<p>Danny
University of California, Berkeley '09 (B.S.)</p>
<p>In my case, I lived in a quad my first year. So with the three girls I lived with, I hated one, casually disliked the other, and absolutely adored the last one. She and I are besties now!</p>
<p>I’d say about 50% become friends to some extent. Many people I knew at my school ended up being great friends with their room mates and several are planning to keep the same roommates for this semester.</p>