life’s not a paragraph

roommates are often times the one thing about college that students get the most nervous about. they are truly an important element of college life. a great roommate can make a great semester even better, a mediocre roommate can bring you down (that’s why you make other friends and then you can go to their place!)

i’ve done so many different types of roommate set-ups. the orientation requests, the random “roommate-needed” situation, good friend and now a mixture of good friends and friends of friends. every single year has been great, even though my roommate situation has changed and shifted between not-so-great to awesome.

i have to say, though, that this year might just be the best of them all. i’ve never lived with so many people before, and although all five of us have to share one bathroom, we’ve all had so much fun! between (almost) always having someone home and the awesome conversations we’ve had, i’d say it’s fare to judge that i am pretty lucky to have landed this place with these people. we’re all nesaders (we all go to the new england school of art and design or NESAD as we like to call it) which adds an extra layer of awesome because even though we all are different majors, we can reference an artist or ask for an opinion and everyone knows what each other is talking about. we all have the critical art eye that makes talking art stuff together so much better than trying to discuss it with anyone else.

our latest roommate bonding decisions have been to go out dancing on friday night and to have a two-song dance party every night at 10:45 pm. we had one last night and it was an awesome break from homework. i suggest it to anyone (even if you say you don’t know how to dance).