My roommate is quite the kid. We met over the summer and instantly clicked, mostly, because of our shared hatred of the three and a half our classes that we would endure twice a week. We knew that we wanted to be roommates for the Fall semester, so we gave up all of our preferences so that we could live together. When we found out we were going to live in East it was sort of a shock. You see, since we had been at PSU for six weeks, we thought we pretty much knew everything about the school. All we knew about East was that it was far away from our familiar surroundings and it was going to be a huge change.
The first step was to move all of our possessions into our room in East all the way from Pollock, and being freshmen, we didn’t have a car to move everything. So we managed to fit all we had into hotel luggage carts and wheel them up the large hill on Bigler road. Once we arrived at our building, we came across the first big decision for roommates; which side of the room you want to claim. I, however, happen to be pretty smooth with words, so I was able to convince Matt that it would be a good idea to bunk our beds, and that he should sleep on top. He agreed with no complaint. What a guy! I’m convinced that a conversation like this would never go so smoothly between two female college freshmen. On our way back from moving our stuff into our new room, we discussed our schedules for the upcoming Fall semester. Matt was excited that he didn’t have to wake up before 10AM; I was dreading having to wake up at 4:30AM. It fazed me for a second that our conflicting wake-up times might become an issue.
How did your different wake up times wind up conflicting with one another? It's nice that you and your roommate get along so well. I've heard horror stories Lol. But as for you being here for six weeks before hand, which program were you in. I stayed up here for a couple summers in high school in a program called Upward Bound Math and Science. It helped me to learn the campus A LOT.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely relate to this blog because I too get along well with my roommate, though we didn't meet over the summer, we met on the Facebook group for PSU class of 2014. As you were on campus for six weeks in the summer, I'm assuming you did summer session-that must have been so great to get to know the campus much better rather than the rest of us having crazy move-in weekend to learn the campus to get to class.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for more on this. Roommate stories whether good or bad are always funny and I daresay any college student can somewhat relate to it. Definitely feeling the moving situation. I stayed in East for two weeks for international student orientation and then had to move over to North. Fortunately I didn't have to go up the Bigler hill. Waiting for more!
ReplyDeleteI think its really cool that you knew your roommate before you got here. And like Felix I cannot wait for more on this. I wonder what kind of drunken adventures you guys get upto. Cause I know that the stuff I do with my friends are HILARIOUS!
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