You haven't known fear until you sign up to receive a random roommate as an incoming college freshmen.
You hear horror stories from your older siblings friends. Every time someone asks you who you're going to live with, you are forced to answer with a shrug. Followed by mumbles of how you hope it is someone you will get along with.For every fourth roommate horror story there is a story of random roommates growing into acquaintances.You think to yourself that those odds are not terrible but you are hoping for more than an acquaintance, a best friend. Not very often do you stumble across a story that these random people become best friends.
Soon after moving in, Maggie and I both knew very few people. We bonded over fro-yo and our ability to watch Netflix for hours on end. We caught each other up on the last 18 years of our life so that we would be equipped to help with advice for the next few months when we needed it, which was more often than we would like to admit. We ate all our meals together and shared stories that the other one wasn't there for.
We all have best friends from home that we share the big stuff with, but it's hard to keep up with people when you live three hours away.
When you live with someone in a dorm room who will run to get ice cream with you at any hour of the night, it doesn't take long to become BFFs. They are there for you when you meet a boy and there for you when that boy isn't. They are there for your melt downs, if you want them to be or not because their bed is like two feet away from yours. They are there to celebrate your birthday, when you ace a test, and when you fail a test. Trust me, both will happen at some point because college is hard. They are there to quiz you and remind you of the project you still have to print off before your eight am chemistry lecture.
Most importantly, they are there. Willing to listen and give the best advice someone that is as clueless as you, in this place we call college, can give. It took no time to become best friends with my random roommate.
So thank you for being you.
We were the lucky ones.
