So being thrown together with a roommate in College is.... terrifying, but it can also be the best experience in your life!  Both my sister and I were placed with girls that we had never met.  The trickiest part is figuring out what to expect.  My roommate wrote me a nice letter and sent a picture.  Come to find out she sent the picture so that I would send one back.  Smart Lady.  I replied to the letter where I said something about being a moron which I spelled “maroon”.

 

My sister called her roommate.  Turns out that it was the day after she had been in a bad car accident.  Cassidy was a little out of it still. When Allison gets nervous she tends to be quite talkative.  She got off the phone thinking her new roommate was a hater, and Cassidy thought that she was an extremely perky cheerleader type. Cassidy also told Allison that she lived in a “hollow” ( she pronounced it “hauler”), not knowing what a “hauler” was, Allison assumed that it was a trailer park.  Well I guess Allison was completely wrong about Cassidy, and Cass was..... perceptive.  

 

The moral of the story is: Don’t judge a book by its cover.  Everyone is a little nervous at first and can seem different than they are. College is a great place to learn how to interact with others.  When else will you be able to live w/ tons of people your own age and hang out all the time? Both of us loved our roommates and are still great friends with them.