When I got accepted to Union, I thought all of the waiting would be over. I was wrong. All I could think about for the first half of last summer was my housing situation at Union. My main concern was that I would be stuck in a dorm besides Davidson. I had heard from students here that Davidson was the most fun dorm, and I definitely wanted to be a part of that. One of my biggest fears before college was making friends. I thought that if I was in a suite, it would be easier to make friends. However, that was only half the battle. I also wanted to know who my roommates were. As all of my friends from home found out their roommates, I was left waiting. I had no idea when I would find out my roommates, and to be honest, was was really nervous.
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When I saw a message that people had received their roommates, I instantly logged in to check the housing portal. I scrolled to the “Room Assignments” column as I held my breath. It was blank.
I was confused, but I later got an email saying that the roommates that were released were a computer malfunction by the staff and that they weren’t the actual roommate assignments. Those would be sent out tomorrow. It was a false alarm. I felt relieved that Union hadn’t just suddenly forgotten about me, but I was still anxious about my roommates.
When I woke up the next morning, I scrambled to check the website before I had to leave for work. I log in and finally saw the names of the people I was about to spend my next year living …show more content…
“This feels like a sitcom,” Jose adds. “We’ve been thrown in this room from all over the world to live with each other for the next year just so people can watch it on TV.”
And ever since that night, that statement has seemed pretty much accurate. All of our experiences seem almost comical when we’re all together. Each and every mess we get ourselves into is a new episode. The circle of chairs in our common room are the couch in Central Perk from “Friends”, and Thai’s car is Eric’s car in “That 70’s Show”. We’d all meet new friends along the way, but we never knew if they’d still be around come next season. We all know that we could count on each other whenever we needed it.
Looking back at how nervous I was about meeting my roommates, I can’t help but laugh. I can’t believe I was so nervous about meeting these people. Just because they’re a different ethnicity than me or even from a different country doesn’t mean that they are any different than me. I’m very happy how my roommate situation panned out, and if we actually we’re a sitcom, I would absolutely watch
When I saw a message that people had received their roommates, I instantly logged in to check the housing portal. I scrolled to the “Room Assignments” column as I held my breath. It was blank.
I was confused, but I later got an email saying that the roommates that were released were a computer malfunction by the staff and that they weren’t the actual roommate assignments. Those would be sent out tomorrow. It was a false alarm. I felt relieved that Union hadn’t just suddenly forgotten about me, but I was still anxious about my roommates.
When I woke up the next morning, I scrambled to check the website before I had to leave for work. I log in and finally saw the names of the people I was about to spend my next year living …show more content…
“This feels like a sitcom,” Jose adds. “We’ve been thrown in this room from all over the world to live with each other for the next year just so people can watch it on TV.”
And ever since that night, that statement has seemed pretty much accurate. All of our experiences seem almost comical when we’re all together. Each and every mess we get ourselves into is a new episode. The circle of chairs in our common room are the couch in Central Perk from “Friends”, and Thai’s car is Eric’s car in “That 70’s Show”. We’d all meet new friends along the way, but we never knew if they’d still be around come next season. We all know that we could count on each other whenever we needed it.
Looking back at how nervous I was about meeting my roommates, I can’t help but laugh. I can’t believe I was so nervous about meeting these people. Just because they’re a different ethnicity than me or even from a different country doesn’t mean that they are any different than me. I’m very happy how my roommate situation panned out, and if we actually we’re a sitcom, I would absolutely watch