Roommates

If you go to university, do not share a room with someone you know, especially a good friend. If you are sharing a small room with this person all the time, it's amazing how fairly small differences in habits can really get to you. Things like how soon clothes are put away, things like your roommates' stuff spreading over into your half, things like your roommate borrowing your stuff without asking, things like different ideas of when there should be other people in the room and conversations happening, when there can be music listened to through earphones so loudly that it can be heard all over the room, things like the time at which friends need to leave and lights need to be put out. Good friendships can be permanently ruined by things like this.

I came to college with my best friend from high school but it didn't work out. She had guests over constantly and you never knew when you were going to walk in on something. She even borrowed my pajamas once! She put dishes in the garbage rather than wash them. Her sloppiness drove me crazy. But at least I wasn't suffering as much as my friend down the hall: one of his roommates smelled so bad that his friends would not come over and he even had to put an air freshener on top of his bed.

Housing is supposed to match you and your roommate based on your interests but it doesn't always work out. But you can grow from being put with roommates who you don't have a lot in common with, so use the opportunity. It also helps to talk to your roommate about things that are kinda bothering you so that maybe he or she can learn to get the dishes done and make sure that the place doesn’t smell.