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Roommate Conversations

We thought we were going to hate each other.

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Roommate Conversations

When high school seniors are assigned a roommate, there are two very different reactions after some social media stalking and introductory texts. The first, "Yes! They look like they aren't going to drive me crazy for the next 9 months!" The second, "How did we get paired together?"

I will admit, in the summer when I was assigned my roommate, I thought the latter. Several months later, I would learn that my roommate, Hannah, thought the same. Before we met, we awkwardly texted about surface level topics, and it didn't seem like we would be compatible roommates at all.

However, luckily, we were both completely wrong about the other. 6 months later, we're rooming together next year and can't imagine living with anyone else. We are completely opposite people, but that's why it's a functional room...well, sometimes a functional room. That assumption depends on how late we stayed up talking the night before.

Throughout our roommate experiences, I've begun to recognize several things we consistently say to one another. Here are just a few:

1. When are you going to dinner?

2. Can you wake me up in the morning?

3. I need to vent. Today, that person I can't stand? Yeah, they said this.

4. Did I have anything to do today?

5. My sister is coming to visit us.

6. Would we be good JC's/RA's?

7. Probably not. We don't do very well with tears and live problems.

8. I can't believe you signed up for an 8 am. You're going to regret that life choice.

9. Did you hear that weird noise last night?

10. You were talking in your sleep last night again.

11. Last night, you actually sat up and made strange noises.

12. I hope you don't mind that I'm not the neatest person in the room. Especially because you already agreed to live with me again next year.

13. I could get up at 7:30 and still make it class by 8, right? That seems logical.

14. Do you think I'd be a good biology major?

15. Do you know this person with the really generic name? No? Let's Facebook stalk then.

16. Have you finished your Odyssey article?

17. Will you write about me??

18. It's pretty funny we thought we would hate each other for a solid like 3 months.

19. Let's actually take one of the same classes next semester.

20. Yeah, I knew you wouldn't like Econ, but we weren't good enough of friends yet for me to tell you that.

21. I'm going to watch Scandal instead of doing homework.

22. This show is ridiculous!

23. Why did I sign up for an 8 am class.

24. Roommate's answer: That was an awful life choice.

25. I'm not sure how we got paired together, but I'm glad we did.

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