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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just have a pro, and I know it's not usually the case, but meeting my roommate was one of the best things about my college experience. We bonded almost instantly, lived together all four years, and are still like family decades later.[/quote]

My freshman roommate (in an honors dorm at a flagship) was depressed almost all of freshman year.

She endangered our safety by failing to lock our room door at night.  2 times, drunk men came into our room after we had gone to bed.  One was lost (my RA's drunk boyfriend) and one was pranking.  I didn't know either of them and the pranker wasn't even a student at my school.

She skipped classes and slept in late in the mornings which meant I often had to be quiet in the room between breakfast and lunch.

She was flunking classes, so was often angry and crying.  In the evenings, she was often on the wired landline to her mom for hours.

Although she didn't really go after me, she wasn't very friendly.  I assumed it wasn't easy for her to be living with a stranger who was at least functioning well in school.

By the time I asked for roommate switch possibilities, the only space was a room where the roommate left because the other roommate would bring people back to the room and have sex while she was sleeping in the same room.  So I stayed for the full year.

Disappointment in the social life led me to transfer for sophomore year even though I had a 4.0.

I had a single for 2.5 years after that.  It was fantastic.  Nobody needs a jerk living in their bedroom.[/quote]

This sounds like what my daughter went through. Not uncommon. 
Single is better, safer. [/quote]

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