14 Ways Your College Roommates Become Your Best Friends

Some of your greatest memories are with these people.

21 March, 2018

14 Things Only People Who Are Unhealthily Obsessed with Their Roommates Understand

Your living situation in college basically forced you to be closer with your roommates than you've ever been with anyone in your life. Between figuring out what you were going to do for the rest of your lives, sharing one toilet, and hearing each other's hookups, it's obvious why you'll forever be closest with them.

1. You've stayed up late and taken care of each other like you were family. Not only when you were drunk either. When the stomach bug was going around the third floor dorms and it was 3 a.m. on Monday, your roommate didn't care about her exam the next morning, she was holding your hair back. (And probably holding her breath too, but she didn't even make you feel bad about it because she loves you!)

2. Not-fun things were ridiculously fun with them, like going to Target or grocery shopping. When else in your life did you actually have a "drunk munch" section of your grocery list? Never, probably. Picking out what disgustingly amazing buffalo chicken dip you'd eat when you got home from the bar at 2 a.m. was just as fun as actually eating it.

3. You've absolutely hated them at one point, which made you love them more in the end. There was that week where everything they did made you want to scream, "I'm so fucking over you all and stop using my straightener and eating my Nutella!"Except then you sat in your room one night without them and you were like, Wait, no, JK, ILU forever!!

4. They've seen all there is to see on your body because you've changed in front of them approximately 382,934,202 times. And you'd occasionally convince yourself something didn't look all right. "Is this normal, do you think?" You ask, with your pants pulled down, pointing to your bare ass. #FriendshipGoals.

5. You've overheard basically all of their hookups and might have even been unknowingly present for some of them. When Emma was having sex with Jake, you heard the entire thing while you sat in your kitchen eating a PB&J sandwich. You've had your books fall off your desk because Andrea was making your upstairs floor rock so much. If that doesn't make you best friends for life, nothing will.

6. You've woken up at 6 a.m. snuggled together in the same twin bed with your clothes and shoes from the night before still on. You've literally never been closer to a human and their bad boxed-wine-smelling breath. You've literally never loved any moment more.

7. Together, you had the best worst dance parties in history. All of you standing on the kitchen table blasting the Spice Girls, using a wine bottle as your microphone. Fuck yeah.

8. You never talked to anyone more in your life. The only time you weren't speaking or together was when you were in classes. If you were in the bathroom on the toilet and your roommates were in the kitchen and the living room, you guys were group chatting.

9. They helped you find yourself emotionally. When you were a business major and realized you had no idea what the hell was happening in your accounting class, they were there to listen to you bitch about it before they were like, "OK. It's time to make a plan!" Then they helped you decide the right path for you to take for the rest of your college career.

10. And they also helped find you, physically, when you were no longer with them at the bar. Woops! "It Wasn't Me," came on at the bar and you couldn't resist leaving them for the dance floor. They understood, and after happily finding you, joined in on your awful dancing.

11. They are the people who taught you that friends don't judge friends for eating literally all of the pizza. "I want pizza," you'd say. "Me too," they'd say. There you were, eating four individual pizzas and not judging one another one bit. Whether it was 2 p.m. or 2 a.m., they were the people you were always ready to feast with.

12. You've probably shared your bras as well as underwear. Nah, it's not gross, it's life. You were wearing a white skirt out and needed a nude thong because yours was in the laundry. You hate doing laundry, but Becky was on top of it, so you knew you could snag a pair from her drawer.

13. Together you split your money on a handle of the cheapest vodka you could get and pretended to love it. You pretended to love it so much, in fact, that you eventually started to love it. There's no friendship like the friendship between two people who go shot for shot from a $10 plastic bottle together.

14. Some of the best stories you have to tell start with, "When I was in college, my roommates and I..."Your silliest and best memories are with them. You went from drunken teens to drunken fake adults together, and the ~bond~ you share can never compare to anyone else's.