<p>Hi. I'm going away to college for the first time (i'm a transfer grad from CC) and i'm really just curious about the whole thing..</p>
<p>Give a brief descriptions of your roommate/s?</p>
<p>For example:
- Did you enjoy their company?
- What did they look like?
- How different or similar were they from you?
- Are you still friends with them?</p>
<p>I know you probably hear a lot about roommate problems, but most of us fortunately don’t have any. </p>
<p>I love my roommate this year. We are actually very close friends and get along very well. I am also close friends with my roommate from freshman year, even though we don’t live together this year.</p>
<p>Does it matter what they look like? Like normal people.</p>
<p>My freshman year roommate and I were actually quite different from one another and came from very different backgrounds but we still found common ground and got along very well. My roommate this year and I are far more similar and come from very similar backgrounds and life stories, so we have a lot to talk about and a great understanding of one another.</p>
<p>Yes, I am friends with both. :)</p>
<p>I was blessed to have the roommates I have.</p>
<p>My actual roommate (the girl I share a small room with) and I are great friends - we met via the school’s facebook page. My suitemates and I are great friends, too - I knew them before we lived together via facebook and tumblr. We really are a small family. Sadly, though, one suitemate transferred back home after this semester, and thus we got a new suitemate. Our new suitemate is a mutual friend, though, and we love her. All five of us are just a small family. We get along wonderfully and enjoy each other immensely. Truly blessed, I tell you.</p>
<p>Sadly, though, in addition to one suitemate transferring, another suitemate and my actual roommate are transferring after next semester, and that breaks my heart. Three of the few friends I have managed to make are leaving, and while I will love them no matter where they attend school, I will miss them a lot.</p>
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<li><p>Are we similar? We are in some ways, but completely different in other ways. I am more similar to my friend who is not my roommate, though.</p></li>
<li><p>Are you still friends with them? I can confidently say that I’ll continue to be friends with all four girls long after this school year ends.</p></li>
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<p>Such nice stories :)</p>
<p>My roommate was quite nice, and we’re kinda friends now. Might think about chatting him up over the break, and discussing the need of a TV next semester in our room. My roommate is white, and his family are from eastern England. He came from a millionaire family, both his parents are making a little over a million a year from what I can tell from talking with him. His family and sister are also quite nice, met them over the semester a couple times…nice parents, I do have to say.</p>
<p>I had a roommate last year and I have a different roommate this year. Both were VERY different experiences, so I think my input can give you a good idea of how different living with people can turn out:</p>
<p>-Did you enjoy their company?
Roommate A - NO NO and NO. She would talk bad about me to their friends, yet she hardly communicated with me. It got to the point of where we didn’t even say hi if one of us entered the room and other was in there. They skyped a lot in the room, which was annoying if I was trying to study or just wanted to relax. They also closed the curtains a lot during the daytime and would have no lights on, so it was like a dungeon in the room. She was also very sloppy.</p>
<p>Roommate B - I generally enjoy her company. We don’t talk often, but whenever we do, she is always friendly. She is a very considerate person and always asks before turning off lights, using my tv, etc. </p>
<p>-What did they look like?
they looked like people.</p>
<p>-How different or similar were they from you?
Roommate A - I felt like we had some things in common, such as similar movie, food, etc. interests, both vegetarians, both science majors, but we were very different in organization, she was a bit more outgoing than me, and she overall had the maturity level of a middle schooler.</p>
<p>Roommate B - We don’t have a whole lot in common except that we have the same major and want to be doctors, and I think she is much more optimistic and friendlier than I am, but things have still worked out well.</p>
<p>-Are you still friends with them?
Roommate A: I laugh at the thought of us ever being friends. She dropped out after a semester and I don’t know what she’s doing with her life.</p>
<p>Roommate B: I would say that we are more of acquaintances than friends, but I am on pretty good terms with them.</p>
<p>I’ll use last year since I had random roommates and it’s probably a better indicator.</p>
<p>-Did you enjoy their company?</p>
<p>Yeah I guess. One of my roommates mostly just played Starcraft all day and we talked only a little bit here and there. My other roommate was much more talkative so we talked a lot, although a lot of people on my floor didn’t care for him much, he was quite blunt and had extreme views on things.</p>
<p>-What they look like?</p>
<p>LOL just like normal white guys I guess.</p>
<p>-How different or similar are they from you?</p>
<p>Quite different, I guess. Both grew up in different family environments than I did, as well as in different parts of the country. I would say we have pretty different personalities from each other, but we got along. I know one of my roommates didn’t like the other much, but nothing really flared up.</p>
<p>-Are you still friends with them?</p>
<p>I mean, I don’t really talk to them much. One of them lives in the apartment complex next to mine and I see him every now and then and ask him how he’s doing, what’s up, etc, but we don’t explicitly hang out. The other left the school for a religious mission and doesn’t have any access to communication so I don’t talk to him at all, and he won’t be back for two years.</p>
<p>I met my roommate through a roommate forum/matching site, so I didn’t know her at all before this past summer. You have no idea how much I wondered what my roommate would be like.</p>
<p>Did you enjoy their company? :: Oh yes, I definitely enjoy my roommate’s company. She’s so much fun to be around, and we have the most unusual and random conversations filled with inside jokes and references from shows. We help each other study, quizzing each other by giving the other person our notes, and we can also talk about more serious, sensitive topics that we can’t talk with others. </p>
<p>What did they look like? :: Just a normal Hispanic girl, like me.</p>
<p>How different/similar are they to you? :: We’re similar in we both like some of the same authors and tv shows. We’re both also cat lovers and can be a bit boy crazy. Some differences are: our majors, our diets, and our religious views. </p>
<p>Are you still friends with them? :: She’s the best friend I have, and I can definitely see us staying friends through college. I’m very lucky to have her.</p>
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<p>There isn’t a day where I DON’T enjoy their company. My roommate and suitemates are amazing people–if you want someone to talk to, they’ll listen to you, and they don’t judge you at all, even if you do the most stupid ****, as long as you acknowledge your stupidity. For example, one time last year, my roommate was drunk and was walking downtown (note: the downtown area of Davis is small) with two guys that she didn’t know…and halfway there, she realized this and started to turn around to go back to the dorms. Anyway, in her drunken state, she forgot her way back and tried to call me and suitemates, but her phone had died. Luckily, she was able to find her way back to the dorms, but when she told us, we didn’t criticize her for her lack of judgement, we were just glad that she came back okay. She regretted doing that, of course, and said she would never do something stupid like that again.</p>
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<li><p>What did they look like?
One of my suitemates is Filipino and the other two are Hispanic (one has Guatemalan heritage and the other has Mexican heritage). </p></li>
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<p>We didn’t realize it during the first few weeks because we were still cautious about each other, but my suitemates and I were very similar in personality. The three of us are introverted and we found out that we almost had the same interests (except my music and fashion interests are different from theirs). One of my suitemates, R, is an animal science major like me, so we often have the same classes (though she wants to be a large animal vet and I want to be a small animal vet, and she’s specializing in biochemistry while I’m specializing in Companion and Captive Animals). My suitemates (who are roommates with each other) found that their home lives are similar to each other’s, since they both have younger brothers and they both have dogs. My roommate is different from the three of us since she’s more extroverted and more of a social butterfly, but she’s the person that gets things going when it gets boring. </p>
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<p>I lived in the dorms with them last year, and I’m living in an apartment with them this year. So yes, I’m still friends with them.</p>
<p>My roommate has been great, and is probably my closest friend at college so far. We’re already planning on living together next year.</p>
<p>I really like my roommate. We can discuss pretty much anything with each other, and I consider her a good friend. If we have problems, we can tell each other, which is great. We’ve been roommates for 2 years, and I’m glad we’ve gotten along this well. We’re both calm people with busy majors, but we always find some way to hang out every so often.</p>
<p>I love 'em.</p>
<p>I hope for the best when I am assigned mine.</p>