What It's Like To Live With Your College Friends
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What It's Like To Live With Your College Friends

Above All, It Is Beyond Worth It

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What It's Like To Live With Your College Friends
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Living with your friends in college is incredibly fun yet painfully aggravating at the same time. You'll discover wonderful perks and disgusting qualities of your friends. You'll want to marry them sometimes and want to drive a spoon in their eyes while eating cereal for dinner on other occasions. Overall, living with your college pals can be easily summed up in these 3 points.

1. You'll grow to love and loath mornings.

Your room mate has an 8 AM and sets 12 consecutive alarms to get up for this, yet only shows signs of life on the last set alarm. But sometimes that's okay because it'll wake you up and give you enough time to wake up and smell the coffee.

You'll become the type of person who loves the scent of your Keurig producing steaming liquid gold that fills the air with the comforting aroma of arabica coffee beans. You'll eventually sip the sweet nectar in assumed silence as your room mate hits snooze another 7 times, and your morning-bird house mate will remain chipper as ever as she settles next to you to tell you about how her morning is going.

2. You'll be so busy that you will somehow miss the people you live with.

Between classes, campus life obligations, socializing, clubs, studying, and working, you won't spend nearly enough time with your house mates as you think. Your house meeting plans or communal taco night won't work out on a regular basis no matter how hard you try. Your schedules won't mesh up remotely as often as you'd hope, but it'll make you appreciate the time you have together even more.

You'll find a way to make your time together meaningful even if it involves watching fragments of childhood cartoons or simply leaving an encouraging note for one of your room mates.

3. You'll realize how gross some of your friends really are, but you'll love them more for their weirdness.

Your best friend puts ketchup on her eggs. Your close friend from your bio class leaves strands of her hair plastered on the shower wall. Your acquaintance does not wash her bath towel regularly enough for your taste. Your punk friend leaves streaks of rainbow hair dye on the countertops every time she decides a new style is appropriate.

But these quirks somehow add charm to your home. You'd feel unfamiliar in your own living room if evidence of your housemates' existence wasn't scattered around in the form of flip flops, half-done homework, or hair ties. It's an experience you'll cherish because it might be the only time you all live so close in proximity.

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