Advantages And Disadvantages Of Living With Roommates

I swear to god, I will burn his clothes if he does not arranges it today,” my friend Safal babbled, while we were walking up to the cafeteria. After further listening to him, I realized he was talking about his roommate. I continued listening to him, and said yes to whatever he had as confusion. I knew he wanted me to say that he was right, and the problem existed in his roommate. If only he had made a better decision, when I had asked him to live off campus with my other friends, he would not have dealt with this stress. However, he opted to live in the dorms in order to enjoy the full college life experience, and here he was lamenting once again. College life is one of the most enriching experiences that students can have in their entire lives. …show more content…
But the experience also comes with number of challenges. One of the challenges that college freshmen have is living with their roommates. The roommates can have the biggest influence on the students’ freshman year. Roommates either become their best friends or their worst enemies. The influences might not directly affect the students’ grades, but having stress because of the roommates’ issues would certainly deteriorate their ability to focus on studies and progress on academics. On the other hand, bonding well with roommates could possibly comfort the students by having a cushion or someone to experience and share their other college obstacles