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Living With Your Best Friends in College

They are there for you no matter what. Even if that means holding back your hair or being the shoulder you need to cry on.

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Living With Your Best Friends in College

Text Conversation:

Me: Are you up?

Best friend/Roommate: Yeah.

Me: Come snuggle.

Best friend/Roommate: I came to your room last time.

Me: Can't move.

Best friend/Roommate: I’m coming.

College has given me my best friends, and the standard is set high for any future roommates. After college, who knows if I will live with a random roommate, a boyfriend or even by myself. This is the time in our lives to live with people who let you be yourself 100 percent of the time. Whether that be staying up till 4 a.m. drinking at the bars or staying in and watching Netflix, they are always there to take on college with you. Here is a list of all of the reasons why you should live with your best friends at least once in your life.

1. Your closet is my closet.

Need a dress for a night out? Why go shopping when you have a selection of closets to choose from. All your friends have different styles, so there is a 99 percent chance you will find something to fit any occasion. You also have a panel of fashion critiques that will shake their heads when you're wearing too much gray or offer you a necklace to pull your outfit together. It is so much better to wake up in the morning and always know that if you can't find anything to wear in your wardrobe, your best friends are there to save the day.

2. You always have someone to hang out with (and people will begin to think that you are in a relationship with your roommate).

Whether it's going out, going to the gym or sitting on the couch (or even on the floor), you will have someone to do it with you. You are together 99 percent of the time, and people will start to wonder whether you ever leave each other's sides.

3. When you need something, all you have to do is yell down the hall.

"Can you make me popcorn? I can hear you moving! Thanks!"

4. If you run out of food, it is acceptable to mooch off of theirs until you go grocery shopping.

If it is between heating up a can of corn because that is all that is on your shelf or eating some of your roommate's leftover pad thai, you know what to do.

5. Spontaneous decisions are more likely to happen.

It is one in the morning and you and your roommate are debating on going out, but then you decide to be way more spontaneous and order two large pizzas.

6. April Fools Day is practically an everyday holiday.

I came home one night to the TV remote, my bra, deodorant and birth control taped to the ceiling. You better bet that the next day I put vodka in their water bottles.

7. It is totally not weird if you are in your roommate's room even when they are not home.

When I need a change of scenery I migrate across the hall. It is never weird if you come home to one of your roommates in your bed even though their own bed is five feet down the hall.

8. You have a panel of judges when you bring a guy home.

We all have the look of approval or disapproval. If it's the latter, you know they are going to make some crazy stupid excuse to get them out of the house. Still, they always give him a chance because they are most concerned about your happiness over anything else.

9. If you don't know what happened last night, they can tell you.

"You laid outside of the Taco Bell drive-thru, threw up in my car and ate a whole bag of chips ... but it's okay, I still love you."

10. You make house cleaning a dance party.

Mopping up spilled beer and cleaning three-day-old dishes is a lot easier when you are blasting country music and singing at the top of your lungs with your favorite people.

11. If they have messy habits that annoy you, you are honest with each other and say it like it is.

"I am going to say this as kindly as possible: If you don't take out the trash every once in a while, you are going to wake up with it dumped all over your room. Love you!"

12. The couch downstairs is basically our watering hole.

This is where we have dinner, play Just Dance, reveal our mental breakdowns, love life secrets and be the support for each other when we need it the most.

13. They become your family.

Although it has been years since you came home to your parents everyday, your best friends have filled that void, and you are so grateful to have such amazing people like them as your roommates and best friends. College would not have been the same without them and they will forever be in your life. Through the ups and the downs, the mornings and the nights, the best times and the worst, they were always across the hall and there for you whenever you needed them.

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