It's spring semester and that time of year: finding housing for next year. If you are rooming with your current roommate then all you have to do is decide where you want to live next school year. Unfortunately, many of us college students don't have that privilege. Maybe you clashed with your roommate once a week because they just love to slam the door as they leave for their 8 a.m. class. Or everything was fine and dandy when suddenly, your beloved roommate tells you "I love you, but I'm rooming with someone else." Now you are on the hunt for someone to live with before the housing deadline.

1. Panic

Who will I room with next year? Why didn't you tell me sooner? You finally adjusted to living with another person and now you have to do it all over again?

2. Confusion

Where am I living? What are the options? I thought we were going to room together? WHY WON'T THE HOUSING APPLICATION SUBMIT? The semester has just started and the crushing stress has already begun.

3. Rationalization

You calm yourself down. You know lots of people on campus you can live with comfortably. "I'll just wait for the rooming proposals to come rolling in," you think. You formed strong bonds with all those friends you suffered with in the same lecture. Except that doesn't happen. The search for a roommate begins....

4. The search

The person you got along with in your study group already has a roommate. The rest of the study group is getting an apartment together. Your lunch buddy is a commuter. Your dorm neighbors are going to be RAs. Maybe going random doesn't seem that bad?

5. Sadness

Everyone is taken and you wander the campus like a lost soul. All these dorms and not a single roommate for you. You go to dinner alone to prepare for your future of lonely dinners. As you cut your dry chicken breast, your phone buzzes. Who could it be?

6. Surprise

Those three lovely words glow before you. "Wanna be roommates?" The person from seminar did actually want to be friends after all! You skip back to your dorm and fill out the housing application. "Simple Roommate Search," you read. Yup, simple.

7. Relief

You have figured out next year's housing plans. The future looks good. Now you can focus on what really matters, like that essay that's due on Friday and all the reading you have to do for tomorrow. It's probably a good idea to start on that project too....why was housing such a priority? You basically live at the library anyway.