When I first started looking at colleges, the scariest thought to me was rooming with some random girl I didn't know. Once I decided upon ISU, I looked around in our facebook group for a roommate. To me, all these girls posting about needing a roommate seemed the same. They all had interests like partying, makeup, working out, and just being extroverts. This was particularly intimidating to me because I'm an introvert through and through. I hate parties, I enjoy makeup but I was never amazing at it like the rest of the girls, and I'm definitely not a fitness buff. So I decided to post and see if anybody would relate enough to consider me as their roommate, and a very special person did.

Not very long after posting, my roommate replied. I was so surprised that somebody reached out and thought we would be a good match for rooming together. Little did I know, she would become my best friend. So thank you, Kayla. Thank you for all the good times we had together.

I'm so glad you were there to go through everything with me. Even though we fought, we managed to make it out of it and I think that says a lot about our friendship. You'll always be my midnight subway buddy or my 2 o'clock Starbucks date. You'll always be the awesome person who would walk Dixie with me and even carry her when it rained because she's a priss. You'll always mean more to me than you know as we spent that first year away from home together. You'll always be the person who went through healthy choice phases, i.e. eating breakfast, working out, not eating too late at night. Even though we failed, we still went through it together.

I know I was probably stupid annoying but I'm glad we stayed up laughing all those nights because even when you plan on going to sleep, you have to laugh a little first. I absolutely love that you would take that sorta long walk with me so we could get horchata all the time because sometimes you have to have a little life-water yah know? As if rooming together wasn't enough and even though we froze our asses off that one day we spent the entire day at target and Tuesday morning, it was still super fun to spend time with you. Plus we got a super cute picture while it was snowing.

I'm glad we had two children together, because who doesn't need a fish tank to brighten up their room a little? (RIP Alfredo, Sushi is still going strong). We've seen the good, awkward, and ugly of each other but we still ended up friends after an entire year. I talked back to you every night while you talked in your sleep, and you woke up every morning to my arms up again the wall because I sleep psycho, yet we're still friends. And I absolutely love that about you, I appreciate you!