by Ta Pace

Created on: May 21, 2009

Sharing a room with a complete stranger is one of the hardest things a college student must go through. It is also very hard to share a room with one of your best friends. In my experience, I started out living with my best friend, but ended up living with a complete stranger. Living with someone else can be very hard, especially when you share one big room and there are few places to escape. You must learn to share with each other, because in such a small space, there cannot be two of everything. You must also learn to compromise on things such as what to watch on television, what time to go to bed, etc. Things can get very difficult.

I thought that living with my best friend was going to be a great experience. We already knew so much about each other and could come to an agreement on how the room would be decorated and who was going to bring what. We were so excited to start school and the first month was great. After the first month, things started to go downhill for our friendship. Spending every second of everyday with someone can be very tiring and can get on your nerves. Sometimes, you make different friends which can cause conflict with the relationship with your best friend. During college, people start to change and grow and morph into a different person. This is exactly what happened to me and my best friend. We ended up making new friends, getting on each other's nerves, needing our own space, and growing apart. It was a hard situation. She ended up transferring schools and moving out, and we barely ever talk anymore.

Once she moved out, I was paired with a random girl. We were complete opposites, and I was very scared to live with her. We liked different music, clothes, styles, people, etc. The first couple months were very shaky between us, but as time progressed, we really learned a lot about each other. Because of the fact that we were so different and hung out with different groups of people, we became best friends. We could talk to each other about anything and everything. Although we had our differences every once in a while, our good times together overcame the bad times. We still remain close and talk about the things going on in our lives, even though we have both gone our separate ways.

I feel that living with a stranger is better then living with your best friend. If things do not work out with the stranger, then it is a lot easier to get a room change from them, than it would be to tell your best friend that you wanted to move out. It is much better to make a friend then to lose one.

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