2008 Woodie Awards
First-time rooomates are a teaching experience outside classroom
Valerie Cancellieri
Issue date: 11/13/04 Section: Feature of the Week-Roommates
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Whether you have one or three these are the people that know the most about you. Think about it, they see you in your best and worst states, in your good moods, in your bad moods, when you're all dressed up and scrubbed out. By living with them, they start to know just as much about you as your family. You eat with them, sleep under the same roof, and share everything like the TV, fridge, and learn to compromise to live with one another. Roommates in a sense become family.
Being a freshman, I wasn't sure how I was going to handle living with someone else, or even how they were going to deal with me. But, I think having a roommate is a big part of college, it teaches you a lot about yourself, and how to not just work with other people, but live with others. That person is always there to talk with and there's
always someone there for you. The fact that you see each other all the time, a special bond is shared with that person, because you are so comfortable, and if there is anyone that knows you best it is your roommate.
Living with a roommate is one of the many things that college teaches "outside the classroom." To be with the same person every morning, every night, and during the day, lots of sacrifices have to be made. You have to learn to compromise, and you learn so much about yourself. Personally I never knew I had this much flexibility, and I have learned what to get mad about, and what to just let go and laugh about.
I am living with someone else, so I am learning how to respect another person way more than I use to, because I myself want to be respected. Roommates aren't just the people that live in the same room with you. They are the people that live in your pod, next door, down the hall or upstairs. It's the people you share the bathroom with in the morning, have those late night conversations and laughs in the hallway with. It's those people you can yell to down the hall, or have a singing shower concert in five different stalls. It is those people that you can just walk into their room at midnight and their
Being a freshman, I wasn't sure how I was going to handle living with someone else, or even how they were going to deal with me. But, I think having a roommate is a big part of college, it teaches you a lot about yourself, and how to not just work with other people, but live with others. That person is always there to talk with and there's
always someone there for you. The fact that you see each other all the time, a special bond is shared with that person, because you are so comfortable, and if there is anyone that knows you best it is your roommate.
Living with a roommate is one of the many things that college teaches "outside the classroom." To be with the same person every morning, every night, and during the day, lots of sacrifices have to be made. You have to learn to compromise, and you learn so much about yourself. Personally I never knew I had this much flexibility, and I have learned what to get mad about, and what to just let go and laugh about.
I am living with someone else, so I am learning how to respect another person way more than I use to, because I myself want to be respected. Roommates aren't just the people that live in the same room with you. They are the people that live in your pod, next door, down the hall or upstairs. It's the people you share the bathroom with in the morning, have those late night conversations and laughs in the hallway with. It's those people you can yell to down the hall, or have a singing shower concert in five different stalls. It is those people that you can just walk into their room at midnight and their