A roommate can make or break your college experience, especially in your freshman year. I was fortunate enough to find a roommate I bonded with immediately, and it lessened the blow of leaving my home and family. If you get to the point of considering your roommate to be your best friend, then you are pretty much set for everything. College is amazing when you get along with the person you are stuck in a tiny room with.
Being best friends with your roommate means having someone you can always drag with you downtown to pick something up or to the commons to get some food. You have a built-in shower buddy, so you don't have to suffer alone. It's dancing around the room, standing on desks, and jumping on beds to the songs you know every single word to. It's laying in bed at two in the morning trying your hardest to sleep before you wake up for your 8 A.M. but can't because you're too busy laughing at absolutely nothing. It's early mornings of getting dressed in the dark, trying not to make any noise but knowing they won't be mad if you do. It's picking out each other's outfits and lending clothes. It's freezing together at football games, staying in on Saturdays, and late night ice cream runs.
Rooming with your best friend means knowing their schedule— when they have exams and when they come home between classes. It's endless rants about classes and learning everything about their high school friends. It's catching up on the past eighteen years.
I still have friends who I have known since elementary school, but I have known my roommate for roughly six months and she knows so much more about me that they never will. She knows when I am in a bad mood just by looking at me when she walks in the door. She climbs in bed with me when I am upset and crying. She cares so much and that is definitely the best part about being friends with your roommate. That is why it doesn't seem like college and it feels like a sleepover.
You get to go home after a long day of lectures and learning and have someone who really cares about you instead of walking into your room with someone who still feels like a stranger after six months. It's just fun when you live with someone you enjoy being around. You have endless laughs and someone to count on. It's refreshing. College is a big, scary change and I am beyond grateful that I have a roommate that will make the next four years the greatest sleepover of all time.