The most memorable aspects people have grown accustomed to with and about the college life are the routines and rituals gained by new experiences. One of the more common ones is the choice of a roommate to live with for the next four years. I have been very very fortunate in that regard, and I am so thankful to have my roommate around to start the next phase of our lives together! So here's to the future no matter what it may bring or take from us.

Before I ever met my roommate, I was not so sure of who or what I was looking for in a roommate, but I knew what I didn't want. I was horrified that I would end up with the kind of roommate that Sue Heck from "The Middle" had during her freshman year of college. On top of that, I had no idea how I wanted or would approach someone about becoming roommates. I feared that if I gained the courage of asking, I'd receive a flood of no's from different people. Little did I know that I had absolutely nothing to worry about where that was concerned.

Thankfully, I went with my mother to visit my future college one early spring day, and I remember just how tired I felt that morning. Ironically, we arrived pretty early and the only other family there was a girl my age named Elizabeth and her stepmother. Since my mother and Elizabeth's stepmother were both chatting about their struggles as two middle school teachers, I figured that Elizabeth and I shared common grounds as teacher's kids, if nothing else. I even thought to myself in a nonchalant manner, "Hmm maybe we'll end up being roommates." That day I had no clue that my open-minded guess would become a realistic truth.

It's no secret that social media can be and often is involved with the beginning, duration, and end of many friendships nowadays. Eventually, Elizabeth and I started to get to know each other through Instagram messages, and it turned out that we were and still are pretty alike in a multiple number of ways. I figured we seemed to have the same sense of humor when it came to memes and the same mentality towards life in general.

I'd only really known Elizabeth for a couple months when she asked about being roommates. I remember being so surprised and filled with joy. I was glad to be considered in a positive, friendly light especially in the troublesome world of today. Of course, I accepted her offer gladly. I wanted to be roommates with her because I knew that our friendship could grow immensely into a peacefully awesome alliance over time. Thus far, my roommate and I are happy as can be with new, adjusted college lives, and I can't wait to see what kind of adventures and hijinks we get ourselves into over the next four years!