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10 Reasons You Should Live With Your Best Friend

Why living with your best friend is better than what people say.

Christine Anez
Nov 09, 2015
University of Florida
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10 Reasons You Should Live With Your Best Friend

Starting college is the most overwhelming thing I have ever experienced—the classes, the thousands of new people, and trying to figure out campus on top of all that. The last thing anyone wants in that situation is getting to know the living habits of a stranger in a 15 x 15 dorm room. I came into college with my best friend of 16 years by my side, and we didn’t think twice about rooming together despite the stereotypical “never room with someone you know” advice.

Sometimes you even hear, "especially not your best friend." My advice is to ignore that advice. If you have a best friend coming to college with you, rooming with them is only going to make you closer. You already know each others' weird idiosyncrasies, so you don't have to be worried about surprises.

I promise you are in for an unforgettable year with them, and really who else would you rather make college memories with? Living with your best friend is better because...

  1. You always have someone to vent to after a hard day. Whether you just bombed a calc exam or you fell off your bike on the first day of school (yes, that did happen to me), you have a set of ears to listen to you and also probably laugh at you.
  2. You have someone to laugh at your jokes. Your best friend is always waiting for you to do or say something hilarious, so be prepared for endless laughter.

  3. Someone to sing Taylor Swift at the top of your lungs with while getting ready, and someone to drive to Target with you on the release day of Taylor Swift's album 1989.

  4. Someone to binge watch "The Office" and "Friends" with–and from then on, quote every line of both shows.

  5. Someone to workout with, or just order Dominoes and Midnight Cookies with.
  6. Someone who understands your weirdness. Their weirdness is probably at or above your level of weirdness, so nothing to worry about here.

  7. You don’t have to ask to borrow anything. People start to wonder whether your clothes belong to you or your roommate.

  8. They are there for you to act as your mom when you are missing your real family.
  9. Basically you get to double your closet…this was also true in high school but now you don’t have to drive 10-15 minutes to borrow anything.
  10. In high school, you usually weren't allowed to have school night sleepovers, but now it's a sleepover every night!
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