<p>Was it awkward? What did you do to break the ice? When did you first meet or know of each other? Are you best friends, good friends, just friends, distant friends, or enemies?</p>
<p>With my first roommate, I walked in and she had already set up the room like she wanted and everything of hers was BRIGHT pink. It was extremely awkward. </p>
<p>I don’t remember how we broke the ice. It just happened. I think through trying to set up the room. </p>
<p>We’re distant friends now (two years after living together). We say hi when we see each other. When we lived together we were never close but we never disliked each other.</p>
<p>Pretty awkward. I met one roommate in the hallway and I don’t think he recognized me until I said something (we had talked on facebook.) My other roommate was is the room with his family and I walked in the room with my parents. No one really knew what to say haha. I don’t remember breaking the ice at first any more than shaking hands and introducing myself. After we were all settled in we just started talking as acquaintances would.</p>
<p>One of my roommate is my best friend (the second one I met.) We’ll be sharing a room in a 3-bedroom apartment next year. Neither of us liked our other roommate; he was inconsiderate and obnoxious. I’ll be happy to never see him again in my life.</p>
<p>Awkward? Sort of. Sort of not. I wasn’t intentionally trying to meet my roommate. Mine is actually kind of a funny story and definitely not the norm.</p>
<p>Housing was taking forever to give out some student’s assignments… mine being included. What ended up happening was I only got my assignment at about 5:00 the day before Orientation. USC also doesn’t give out any information about your roommate (name, phone number, email, etc) for “privacy” reasons. Apparently we can live with these people but we’re not allowed to know anything about them! Anyways, because of this, I had no idea who my roommate was. I just knew my room number and building.</p>
<p>One of my friends from high school is in the same major as my roommate and they were talking at Orientation and of course I caught up with my friend and he introduced us. I still didn’t know she was my roommate. Then, we were near some computers so we suggested she check her housing assignment since she didn’t know it yet. I jokingly suggested “Maybe you’re my roommate!” and then she checked her assignment… and as things just happened, she was indeed my roommate. Weirdest. Thing. Ever.</p>
<p>We lived really well together. She was super easy to get along with. We never had a fight. We were both respectful of each other’s space. That being said, our personalities don’t really mesh and while she’s a lovely girl, we’re just not meant to be best friends or anythings. I thought she was a great roommate. We just never connected though. That was perfectly fine though. It was nice to live with someone who I got along well with but didn’t spend like all of my time with 24/7.</p>
<p>In person? Pleasant enough. Online? Eh. </p>
<p>She didn’t accept my friend request for a while despite me telling her I was her roommate and I dreaded it. I got to the room a few days before her because I was a transfer and had half of the room already claimed. She was nice, I guess. But she “quietly” complained that I’d taken the bottom bunk or the good side of the closet of whatever. She did make a point to tell me that I shouldn’t think the reason she had taken so long to reply back to me was because of my race (…I didn’t.) And that she was slightly worried I’d be ghetto (…I’m not) a few days later. We ended up hating each other. Like, she stayed out of the room and we never talked hated each other. Like, threats of physical violence hated each other.</p>
<p>My suitemates and I met over Facebook and got along right off the bat. It was never awkward.</p>
<p>Awkward. I mean, what do you expect? You’re face-to-face with the person you’ll be spending almost a year of your life with, whether you like them or not. For me there was a lot of pressure to try and be friends, but I eventually learned that you can’t force friendship.</p>
<p>After we all settled in, my roommate and suitemates sat on the floor in my suitemates’ room (since their room was the one attached to the bathroom, their room was bigger) and introduced ourselves and our major. It took me a little bit longer than my roommate and suitemates to get settled in and warm up to them, whereas they warmed up to each other quickly (and they didn’t know each other before, either). My roommate had moved in a day early before her assigned move-in day, so she was able to claim a bed before I did. Oh well, it was a good thing I like high beds, because she chose the one that was lower. My suitemates and I are living together again next year (since my roommate moved back home during winter quarter due to personal issues, we weren’t sure whether she wanted to live with us next year).</p>
<p>It was great! We first started talking online through a facebook group for the new class. Then on the Accepted Students Day at our university, we met in person and greeted each other like good friends. Credit to my roommates, who are both very social people. 
Throughout the year, we became close friends. I think when we moved in (I moved in a few days after everyone else in my building did), I already felt really comfortable with my roommates.</p>
<p>For the first one, my family and I walked in and his family was already there, we said hi and whatever. Afterward we never had that getting to know each other conversation. He was out of the room a lot and we never talked.</p>
<p>The next year, it was already someone I knew and we got randomly roomed together, but we got along fine… I think.</p>
<p>I emailed her, then she friended me on facebook. We got to know each other a little bit (basic info, etc), and that was the end until I moved in.</p>
<p>Our situation was a little different because I moved in for spring semester, while she had been living there for fall + spring. I got there a week before her winter break ended, so I had the room to myself for awhile.</p>
<p>Our first “in-person” interaction was INCREDIBLY awkward. I was trying to help a drunk friend find her loser boyfriend (long story), and raced up to my room to find my phone, my eyeliner smeary and barefoot. She’s not a partier at all, of course, but accepts it gracefully. We ended the night going to IHOP and getting cheese sticks and milkshakes.</p>
<p>We’re still decent friends:)</p>
<p>we found each other on facebook, so we messaged then (super awkward but both of us were friendly). In person I had moved in first. I really can’t remember how awkward it was, but she was very friendly and nice, and so were my suitemates. The first night of move-in my roommate and suitemates all went and watched a movie in the study lounge. I got bored of the movie after 15 minutes and met up with a friend that I made from orientation to wander in search of a party. For a split second I thought she was boring because she stayed to watch the movie with the other unsocial people. But we became friends right away, with the help of silly orientation activities and some random drunk people (and she is still my roommate/best friend to this day, 4 years later!)</p>
<p>It was pretty awkward.</p>
<p>I had a double room to myself Fall semester, not by choice, and was told that I might be given a roommate for Spring Semester but that i’d be notified well before-hand.</p>
<p>It was the last day of Christmas break and the day before the Spring semester started and I was sitting at the airport gate waiting for my flight back to school when I got an email-notification on my phone from the school saying that I’d have a roommate waiting for me when I arrived back. Needless to say, I was ** overjoyed <a href=“note%20the%20sarcasm”>/b</a></p>
<p>So I took a cab to campus from the airport and I got to my room and he was standing there with his dad. His dad introduced his kid to me like “Oh, you must be _<strong><em>! This is my son, </em></strong> and he’ll be your roommate!” His dad left the room to let us get aquainted. I tried shaking his hand but he turned around and kept unpacking. I asked him what he likes to do for fun and he told me to mind my own business and from that point on I pretty much never talked to him for the whole semester haha. He was not a personable kid at all and wasn’t socially ready for college.</p>
<p>^Oh wow. He told you to mind your own business?</p>
<p>That sounds horrible. I liked having a roommate who I could talk to and have friendly conversation with, but wasn’t besties with. Having one who didn’t even want to know me from the start would have been torture. lol</p>
<p>First impressions are something I’m worried about when I move in, especially since I’m going pot-luck.</p>
<p>I did this 3-week leadership program hosted on a college campus, and my roommate and I almost never spoke. We had nothing in common, I’m a theatre kid and he’s a soccer star. We liked different music, different sports teams, our politics were different. We had NO common ground.</p>
<p>We got along alright, but I’m hoping my college roommate will be someone I can connect with at SOME level. Hopefully having 2 other suitemates will make it easier.</p>
<p>It went alright. My parents and I had already set up my room before she arrived, and we decided through email that I would give her about 2 hrs to set up her side with her parents. I thought she might enjoy sometime with just her folks since she was very close to them. Once I returned to the dorm it was a little awkward because she was returning from picking up her textbooks with her folks. We did the introduction thing, but my parents weren’t there so they never even saw her once!</p>
<p>After that is was alike a slow death to be honest. She was super religious although never pressured me to be. We came from very different backgrounds her the country, and me a city same state but very different. She had been with the same kids since grade school, and 2 of them came to the same university. One was her boyfriend who was super cool, but they broke up at least twice in school which for me was awkward to continue a friendship with him. She never really tried to share, or respect my thoughts when it came to the room set up which is partially my fault for always just agreeing. I hate fighting with anyone so like I said I just try to appease everyone! (such a bad trait I think) So when I did finally stand up for myself, which I had too because when you are taking a sleeping med you don’t want to be lofted up to the ceiling. She became annoyed with me and took to facebook to tell me. All because I wouldn’t let her use my loft, it wasn’t mine to begin with it was a family members. That’s when our “friendship” ended. We never talked unless we had too which wasn’t often. I didn’t stay in the room a lot I found other places to go such has comp lab, library, campus center, and dorm’s basement. Although I knew her schedule so I would return to the dorm when she was out.</p>
<p>To be honest it will probably be awkward no matter who you are, unless you are dorming with a friend which has its pros and cons. I transferred out at semester, and never told her just like she had found a new roommate at semester and never told me. I deleted her off facebook the day I moved out, and never responded to her texts that day (she sent 1 asking to come back just as I left). I am glad I had the experience but for now I stay at home where it is free and no roommate! Unless you count my dogs. lol</p>
<p>With my first roommate, we know each other over Facebook and decided to become roommates after the two people who were supposed to attend the college we went to didn’t even end up going there. Everything started out good, but as the year went on, we definitely had problems and then we ended up just falling out. It was strange because he was very busy on the campus doing everything he could, while I just stayed in the room because I really did enjoy the peace and quiet. Now, we don’t even talk anymore and I still don’t remember why we’re not longer cool.</p>
<p>My first interaction with my roommate was not so good. He was a time pass singer and he was trying to entertain my when i meet him first. Then i told him that do not disturb me again with your weird song. I was tensed due to some family issue. And then i realize that i have done a mistake.</p>
<p>Yeah, it got a little awkward but not too much. One thing I liked is that our school posted our assignments and roommates pretty early, around May I think, so during the summer I added both of my roommates and we had normal, low-key conversations on Facebook. I moved in two days after the scheduled move-in day for my building (because of a prior engagement), so they had already chosen the beds and the desks. I actually ran into one of my roommates in another building and I said “Hey, you’re _____ right? I’m ______” and we shook hands and stuff. Little awkward. Then I went up to the room and met my other roommate and stuff. They were both pretty chill but they were doing their own things since they were already settled in. I think one of them was on the computer the whole time and the other was on the phone for what seemed like forever because he had a printer problem. I spent most of the day moving in anyway so they kind of just kept to themselves, although they each offered to help, which was nice.</p>
<p>I got along fine with them, but they’re not really my close friends and I didn’t hang out much with them except for the occasional meal in the dining hall or going to an athletic event. One of my roommates was obscenely addicted to his computer (specifically, Starcraft) and didn’t socialize much. He was fine as a roommate but didn’t really make an effort to get to know other people on the floor that much.</p>
<p>I actually talked much more to my other roommate, because we shared a similar love for sports and we hung out quite a bit. But he was very busy in general and he probably spent the least amount of time in the room anyway. Like I said, they’re not really my close friends but we did get along well enough to the point where I’d meet up with them for lunch or something from time to time in the coming years.</p>
<p>Both of my roommate situations have been rather, uh, interesting haha. This past fall semester, I was placed with a roommate with whom I had almost nothing in common. He partied a lot, was really messy - and this is saying something as I am not an extremely neat person - and actually ended up having to leave at the end of the semester because he was found guilty by our student conduct board of sexual assault (!). I have to say that, while I already knew some things about him from Facebook, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite as bad as it was haha. We talked for the first couple of weeks, but after that we each had our own friends and rarely saw each other. Definitely a little awkward.</p>
<p>My roommate this past semester was an international/ESL student who ended up living with some friends from his country for most of the semester, so I had a double to myself haha. The first encounter was rather awkward since it was not with him, but with his father, who I happened to find napping in my roommate’s bed!</p>
<p>At this point, I think I would be happy to just have a “normal” roommate. Hopefully I will this fall!</p>
<p>Awkward. We talked over the summer, and it was awkward because we were both trying to be super nice and accommodating, but it just ended up being uncomfortable. Then, when we met on campus, it was the same deal. All of this was made worse the first weekend, when I came back to the room drunk and passed out. I was used to locking the door (as I always had at my house) but she didn’t have a key, and when she tried knocking, and then slamming on the door with a water bottle, I didn’t wake up. That, um, made things a little tense for a while, especially since she assumed I hadn’t answered since I brought a guy back (I didn’t). Anyway, it was like that almost all of fall semester… We were friendly and accommodating but not that close, even though we shared friends. Later on though, we got much closer, and by the end of the year, she became one of my best friends!</p>