Often, you hear all the horror stories from people that are in college now, or once were in college, about the awful encounters they had with their roommates.

“Oh, the other day my roommate did _____”

“When I was in college, my roommate and I fought constantly”

I’m sure you’ve heard and read about all of the possible things that could go horribly. Thankfully, I don’t have any of those stories.

I signed up for the “random roommate assignment” that my school did for students who didn’t have a roommate, and was sent my papers with my roommate’s name and number on it in the summer before moving in. I was worried that we wouldn’t get along because I have weird sleep schedules, love to listen to (random) music all of the time, and can’t fall asleep if someone is snoring in the same room as me.

We texted off and on the rest of the summer about who was bringing the microwave and who was bringing a fridge and got to know each other some, and then once we both got to school, we became close friends quickly.

We LOVE the same kind of music!

We both are HUGE Disney fans and know all songs by heart and talk 24/7 about Disney-related topics. When we aren’t listening to Disney, we have found some new, awesome Jesus music and we jam and worship together before class and it is AWESOME. It’s rare and awesome that roommates share the same love for random music tastes. We also share a love of listening to Christmas music 24/7/365. Most other humans are annoyed by this but I'm so glad she's not.

We have learned to communicate telepathically.

We have a lot of the same interest so we are often in meetings together, involved in the same activities, or eating meals together AND we live in the same room, so we are around each other ALL of the time. We have learned how the other thinks and the things they would most likely say in that situation. We’re at the point where if we make eye contact, we know exactly what the other person is thinking and we just laugh. Other people have started to get freaked out by this.

Finals week brings out emotions and heart-to-hearts.

Enough said. We got 10x closer over first semester finals simply because we were up and sleep deprived together at 3 am every day.

We both love Jesus!!

This was something I was so worried about because it is a huge part of my life but thankfully He knew what He was doing when He placed us together. We share devotions and awesome ways that we’ve seen God working in our lives and it is so encouraging. (We also occasionally do four-way devotions with our boyfriends that we probably love way more than they do.)

We are friends with mostly the same people.

And we have met new people through each other!! We hang out with the same group of people even though we have different majors. It’s super awesome cause no matter what other friends come or go, we will still be friends.

We both started a new chapter of life together.

We started out on the same page-clueless. We had no idea what we were doing, but we started out together. We have been through finals week, 1 am ER visits, sleepless nights, family events, more Buffalo Wild Wings trips than I can count, tests, heart to hearts, and more. We were put on the starting line together and both just took off, having no idea where we were going. But, I am so glad we were put beside each other.