How To Get To Know Your Roommate Before Classes Begin

How can I get to know my roommate before classes begin?

The good news is you have opportunities now as a college student to get to know your roommate in ways that other people have never been able to have an opportunity through MySpace, through Facebook, just through email and text messaging. You can become best friends or not best friends before ever meeting each other, but I'd say that you should keep the conversation short. Wait until you actually live together before deciding how you feel about your roommate. Just deal with the essentials and then once you get to campus, then you can develop that relationship because until you're living it and experiencing it, it's really hard to know what it's going to be like. Those things that make you different, those turn out to be the things that are most amazing experiences because how often do you get to live with someone who's of a different sexual orientation, who speaks a different language, who's from another country, or who wears no clothes.