You don't realize what you're missing until it's gone. This also happens with your roommate who you have bonded with for five months. My roommate is actually going to be gone and I won't see her again, unless I go to Chicago—I will be getting a new roommate come January. Here are things you will miss about your roommate while you are home for the holidays.
1. You miss having someone stay up with you until 3 a.m.
How my roommate and I bond is by staying up late together while talking and watching Netflix. We don't see each other during the day so much because both of us have classes, but after class we always talk about our day and watch Netflix.
2. Your roommate will go to the dining hall with you at 2 a.m. because you are both hungry.
But then you realized that the dining hall is disgusting so you both just cooked ramen.
3. Both of you have watched a show together.
We have watched "Being Human" together on Netflix, and watched "The Voice," "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Jungle Book." Who is going to watch shows with me now?
4. That fact that we both love sleeping.
I love sleeping. I can sleep all day and be fine with it. I also take naps on Mondays and Wednesdays after my class. My roommate started to sleep in and she loves sleeping too. Now is my new roommate going to do this with me?
5. You always have someone with you to hang out with if your other friends are busy with their life.
You are always there for each other. I can always rely on my roommate to keep me company. I hope my new roommate is my best friend.
6. You can ask the dumbest questions and not get judged.
Likely she will judge you, but it's OK—she will judge you when you turn around. I really hope my new roommate is OK with this, too.
7. You have someone to look like a hobo with.
At least both of us will be a hot mess together.
8. Having someone to ask about your outfit before you go out.
9. Trash-talking about your hallmates.
10. Having someone to edit your article of the week for Odyssey before you turn it in to the managing editor.
Who is supposed to look over my article each week and see what mistakes I made, such as grammar, punctuation or just simple mistakes?
11. My friends became her friends, so she has twice the friends.
At first it was MAAN ( go back to the article "A trip with MA"), then it became DMAAN (Deja, Maribeth, Andrea, Ashlee and Nicolay).
I am going to miss you and I hope you visit USF soon and come to Jacksonville and visit me and I will visit you in Chicago.
I love you roomie, or should I say ex-roomie?
