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MY ROOMMATE EXPERIENCE

As a student at Oklahoma State University, I have to admit that the subject of roommates brings fond memories and the most hilarious ones. As my third year of college approaches its end, I can reflect on these past experiences.

It all began the night before I came up to college. I was going to be rooming with a girl I had never met before. She was from Texas, and I was from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. I was packing up my possessions when the telephone rang. Stacy was calling to tell me that she had gone through (sorority) rush and had decided to move into her sorority house. She asked if I minded. As if...Would I really tell her that now I wouldn't even have a roommate? Now I felt apprehensive about the whole situation. I hung up and then I realized that I was going to be all alone when I arrived at OSU the next day. My mom had to work, so I would be moving myself to school.  It was sad.

I moved in my dorm and soon I realized that I liked not having a roommate. I had shared a bedroom for my entire life, and this was nice. I soon became friends with other girls on my floor, so I listened to their roommate stories. The girls next door were like night and day. They did NOT get along. Sue (not her real name) did not appreciate how Emma (also not her real name) acted as though she were her mother. Sue had been independent for a long time before coming to college, and so she wasn't used to someone checking up on her all the time. Sue and I became friends, and the next year we found a house together with another girl. That story comes in later though...

Second semester of my freshman year, I moved in with one of my friends from the dorm. Because we were friends, we weren't sure if we should move in together. I am horrible about making big decisions, so I barely made up my mind to do it. Lindsay's roommate moved into another, so I moved over. We had the best time. We were freshmen, and we wanted our freshman year to be the best it could be. When one of us didn't want to go do something with the other, we could always convince each other that "we are only freshmen once!" From midnight runs to Wal-Mart, running in the rain, making macaroni and cheese in the microwave, and doing ballet down the hall, we always had fun. We would motivate the other to study only in extreme cases, but our token saying was a motivator "Study, study, school's your buddy!!"

I was on the rowing team my freshman year, so I arose at 5:15 each morning to drive to the lake for a grueling two hour workout. No matter how early I would try to go to sleep, Lindsay and I always talked until the wee hours of the morning. I have no clue how I made it on so little sleep, but then again, I was a freshman and reality hadn't set in yet. Although we stayed up late, I always got up on time and never missed a practice. Neither did she. Each morning as I headed out the door, she would pop up in her bed to tell me good-bye. We formed a friendship that has been tested since then. She moved into her sorority house the next year, and this semester she is working in Disney World as part of an internship. Yet we still keep in touch and manage to get a coke every now and then. We can talk to each other about anything, and that is a pretty cool thing to be able to say about your freshman roommate.

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