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When Your Roommates Become Your Best Friends, as told by Modern Family

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at MSU chapter.

Going into college, you’re eager to study your major but anxious about making friends. 

But you end up meeting some really cool people who you decide to share an apartment or house with for the next few years.

Sharing a living space, you realize that your roommates will know every sneeze, bathroom use and mental breakdown you’ll ever have.

…and every emotional eating session. They know.

There might even be some tension because somebody never does their dishes or never takes out the trash.

But it’s okay, because you can all work through problems.

After all, you become so attached to your roommate that you cry inside every time you’re left alone as you anxiously wait for them to come back.

Your roommates are the ones you go out with every weekend and reminisce about the times when everyone maybe drank a little too much.

…even if things got weird.

But these aren’t just your ‘drinking buddies’, they’re true friends. Your roommates will pick you up from class when it’s too cold to walk home.

They’ll stay in with you if you don’t feel like being a person of society on a Friday night.

They’ll listen to you incessantly freak out about how you still don’t know what the hell you’re doing with your life.

And they’ll stand by you during your darkest times.

After all, your roommates know you better than most. They’re your best friends, your sanity and your rock.

Alena Davis is a senior journalism major at MSU and co-campus correspondent for HCMSU. She hopes to pursue a career in magazines based in New York or Chicago. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, Instagramming and excursioning with friends. Follow her on Twitter: @alenaadavis & Instagram: @alenadavis