“Hi, I’m your college roommate. I’m a total STRANGER and I will be sleeping in that bed, right over there ….2 feet from your head. I might be normal, OR I might NOT, but you’re stuck with me for the next two semesters.”
Remember that first night in your college dorm? You and your roommate all squeezed into a shoebox…your parents left town…and YOU are left to sleep next to a total STRANGER. It’s bedtime, it’s dark, and you politely say into the darkness: “Good night STRANGER.” But you can’t fall asleep because you hear the STRANGER breathing. In and Out…In and Out. OMG…do they have to breath so much?
It seems unnatural to be thrown together with a total STRANGER, but then again colleges have done it for eons. Sometimes you get lucky and have the perfect roommate situation…someone who is just like you...or someone who is at least compatible with similar music, study habits, and sleeping patterns. But that is not the norm. The odds of a perfect roommate match? One in every 500,000 roommates.
Brianna’s university didn’t send out a 'preference questionnaire' to fill out. They probably figured why bother?…Most kids lie on those forms anyway. They say they’re a “clean freak”…that way they can get themselves a live-in maid for a roommate. They’re looking for someone to do the work mom used to do.
Eventually morning comes to the shoebox…and you rise to find that you have survived the first night. And you think… “that wasn’t soooo bad.” Then you realize… “OMG...Wait, I’m a STRANGER too.”
1 comment:
Krista and I have been doing well together! Still strangers but not too awkward and good thing i'm a deep sleeper and she sleeps late, we don't run into any problems!
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