You’ve never met your roommate… but live together.
YOU’VE NEVER MET YOUR ROOMMATE… BUT LIVE TOGETHER.
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Remember that email? The one with your room assignment, a number, and maybe a first name – often the only intel you had on the person you'd soon share a shoebox-sized space with. No personality profile, no common interests match. Just the leap of faith into a semester, or a year, of cohabitation with an utter stranger.
The first few days were a masterclass in silent negotiation. Whose side of the room was this invisible line drawn on? When was it okay to turn on the lights at 3 AM for that last-minute paper? Would they judge your obscure late-night snack choices, or your frantic caffeine-fueled ramblings about quantum physics? The initial awkwardness was a shared rite of passage, a unique flavor of "roommate chaos" where the unknown was the most unsettling variable.
Yet, from these tentative beginnings, something profound often emerged. Perhaps not always a best friend, but a silent understanding. A nod when you both stumbled in after an all-nighter. A shared glance of utter exhaustion during finals week. Sometimes, it was just the profound silence of two brilliant minds working in parallel, carving out their space, their routine, within those four walls. It wasn't always midnight debates; sometimes it was just the shared, unspoken reality of building a life, however temporary, with someone you only truly got to know by living beside them. This was our dorm life, unfiltered.
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