Once it is the spring of your junior year of high school, it's like senior year doesn't really even matter. All that is talked about from that point up until the day you receive your dorm room key and your parents drive away from your college is where you are going to college, what you are majoring in, how much your tuition is, if you have any scholarships and finally, who your roommate is going to be.

Some people have the luxury of knowing someone they want to room with before the roommate search process begins. Maybe they have been friends for a long time, play on the same sports team or met at a conference. Bottom line is: these two people know each other well enough that they aren't scared to inhabit a small box like room together for 9 months of their life.

For the rest of us, we now have two options. Either A) hope to whatever God or higher being you believe in that you don't get matched with a crazy random roommate or B) use technology to your advantage.

Yes, people use the websites the colleges set up for you to find someone. Basically, online date to find a roommate.

I know, that is such a weird way of saying it, but that is essentially what you are doing. This is because, you have to find someone you can tolerate and can tolerate you. You cannot live with someone if you wake up early, like a clean room and go to bed at 8pm if the other person is a messy, sleep until noon night owl. IT JUST WON'T WORK.

So, instead, use technology to get on a website and write a paragraph about yourself, what you like to do, etc and use it to find someone similar to you. (Do this IN the sites offered by your college, not just on your page, that's not ok).

This paragraph doesn't have to have everything about you written in it. It doesn't have to have your best friend since first grade's name in it, or the breed of dog you have, or the fact that you have a creepy looking birth mark. All it has to say is basically "I'm so and so and I like all of these things and live this way and I am looking for a roommate."

Funny, because online dating sites are the same way to an extent in the way they match you with someone. (That's what I've heard, don't get freaked out).

Regardless, its always awkward when weeks into the semester, someone you know from back home says "I was just wondering, how did you meet your roommate?"

"Well grandma...I meet her/him online..."

HOW DOES THAT NOT SOUND WEIRD?!

You will get past it though, and hopefully, you end up rooming with a person that you have a lot in common with. If this ends up not being you, it's not the end of the world. College is a place full of people, and you will make friends you can room with in years to come.