I will be eternally grateful that I plucked up the courage to talk to the friendly looking girl that I ran into in the theatre building on admitted students day. She’s one of my best friends, and better than any random roommate I could’ve gotten.

1. We’re both messy

I didn’t think I’d ever be able to find someone that could handle living with me, but she proved that it’s possible to accept how gross our room was 99% of the time. We basically only cleaned if we were having friends over (or if our parents were visiting).

2. She stays up late to talk with me

My favorite memories of my first year of college are all of laying in my bed and talking to my roommate in her bed until we were too tired to keep our eyes open anymore.

3. Our biggest talents are napping and eating

We both love snacking and sleeping in excessive amounts, often did them together, and never judged each other regardless of how much we indulged (even when the number of cheese sticks I'd eaten in one day reached the double digits).

4. She didn’t want to decorate our room symmetrically

The idea of buying matching bedding and all matching decor, and probably at least one thing with either our monogram or the outline of our home state terrifies me. Luckily my roommate felt the same, and we decorated our sides the way we wanted to.

5. We made other best friends together

We‘re so similar that it was really easy for us to connect with the same people, and form great groups of friends that we both fit into. Plus, we needed a third best friend to motivate us/yell at us to do things like working out or studying.

6. She makes me laugh harder than anyone else

It’s a really great idea to pick a roommate that’s going into comedic writing as her career. She kept me laughing the whole year, and I don’t think I’ll ever have so many inside jokes with anyone else.

7. She lets me post embarrassing pictures of her on my snap story

She might have complained a little bit, but she let it happen.

8. She doesn’t complain if I get her sick

Basically every time I got a cold she would get it a week later, and she never got mad at me for it.

9. She’s as codependent as I am

We were joined at the hip to the point that most people weren’t sure which of us was Lillie and which was Olivia. We’ve intentionally taken the same classes, gone to dinner twice so that we could eat dinner together, bought a lot of matching clothes, and taken showers at the same time among other things.

10. She waits up for me if I get home late

We joke about being each other’s parent at school, but it’s really not that much of a joke.

11. She knows everything about me

She knows all of my secrets, and hasn’t been judgmental about a single one. She knows and understands me so well that it freaks me out sometimes. To a fault she can always predict how I’m going to react or what I’m going to say.

12. She’s my favorite person in the world

We talk everyday and I can’t imagine college or my life without her. I was so so incredibly lucky to meet her, and she’s the biggest reason I’m excited to get back to school.