This is actually really interesting. I requested my roommate freshman year that I had “met” through the class Facebook page- she was of another race. I met a lot more people of color through her, and she met a lot of white people through me. It’s funny how much we self-segregate subconsciously. I definitely have more friends from different backgrounds/races in college than I did in high school, but I can’t trace it to my roommate specifically because my college is significantly more diverse than my high school/hometown. Aside from race, we were also from entirely different parts of the country and had a decent amount of differing views in general. It was really nice to have that experience. I think it’d be a worthwhile initiative to more carefully “randomly” assign roommates; bridging the gap between domestic/international, white/PoC, high/low income, etc. might become a lot easier when they are forced to at least acknowledge the other exists.