Moving In

Moving into your first college dorm room is always an experience. Whether your new roommate is someone you’ve always known or a complete stranger, things can get a little awkward from time to time. For me, making friends with my roommate was easy. She was funny, pretty, confident, and most of all excited to be here and get to know me. It made getting along easy and to this day we still haven’t had a single fight. However, not all of us have this same happy joining, some of us actually have horror stories we end up passing on to siblings and friend. To avoid any type of ghastly scenarios that might be waiting to pounce on you always do the following:

1. As soon as you get into your dorm make your side your own. It’s important to feel at home here even if you won’t live there for more than 10 months out of the year. Bond through all the things you brought from home, because every picture and every trinket has a story to tell about you.
2. Make sure you’ve got the basics down like at what time do each of you have to get up in the morning, or which one of you is the morning person, is coffee going to be a necessity for the both of you?
3. Spend some time really developing your friendship with your roommate because they are the person you will be spending your first cold with, your first college parties, your all-nighters, and your boy/girl drama.
4. If anything ever bothers you make sure you talk it over with them as soon as it happens. Don’t wait until you’re too fed up with the other person to compromise.

I can’t stress the last of point on the list enough. My roommate and I have managed to skip any fights that might have come up, but it has been because we have been honest and understanding with each other (not an easy thing to do in a small, enclosed, sometimes crowded dorm room).