I have to sign the housing contract soon if I want to live on campus next year. I’m a freshman and I get along well with my current roommate, but I don’t feel like we’re best friends. We get dinner together every day and even signed up for a boxing class to go to twice a week together. I’m quiet though and I don’t talk that much and she’s really outgoing and talkative. I want to ask her if she’s staying on campus next year or if she’s planning on getting an apartment, but I’m afraid that she might not want to room with me. I don’t want her to feel forced to live with me next year. I’m afraid that she might of already made plans. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to have to find a new roommate next year since I like my roommate now. I don’t want to seem clingy since I already feel like I follow her around too much. Please help?
You can’t make any decisions about what you want or need to do for next year without asking her and finding out what her plans are. So if you want to know, ask her. Be prepared that she may have other plans, and if she does then you will have to make alternate arrangements as well. That’s okay, and if you find out now you have time to explore other options. These are the situations of adult life–doing nothing about it gets you nowhere.