My roomie and I started talking online, but meeting in person definitely confirmed why we should live together. Living in a small room with someone for the first time can be really tough and you want to make sure that you two will be compatible. My roommate and I started talking on Facebook after we both committed to 'Cuse. We were both in Newhouse, we watched the same TV shows and we just had a lot to talk about. It seemed like a done deal that we would be roommates because we had so much in common with each other.

However, talking to someone online can be deceiving. People are different online than they are in person. For that reason, my roomie and I decided to meet up in person first. We met halfway between our houses at a diner. At first it was a little awkward. It was two strangers at first but once we started to talk, it seemed like two friends at lunch. We just clicked. We basically decided that day we were going to room together and it was so much more helpful that we met in person. It filled in the holes from online and we got a sense of each other's personalities besides from behind a computer screen.

For people applying to college and committing, keep this in mind when you're looking for a roomie. I know so many people that only talked online to their roommates and when they came to school they did not click. Meeting in person spared the awkward encounter on move in day and it helped us to bond before school even started. We are such different people but at the same time we have so many things we share and it's nice to have that with someone you just met. While some people prefer to go random, I wanted to have the security of knowing that I would love my roomie. I knew exactly what I was getting myself into with my roomie and I wouldn't change a thing about it.