“The new living situation has been super comical in a really good way,” said Pierce Hayton ’24, referring to the last month spent in our current six-person house off campus. Reaching out to five people, a mix of current and former roommates, I asked them to describe some of our shared residential experiences.

For 75% of that period, we shared a room.īut just to be sure I didn’t overlook unvoiced complaints from the past, I checked in. Another close friend, my roommate for four consecutive semesters at Colorado College, has shared a home with me for 80% of our time here. One current roommate, a friend who stopped living with me after our first semester of college, started cohabitating with me again after a three-semester interim. With the number of roommates I’ve been through, you might even suspect I’m the worst person to live with.īut I have some figures which allow me to think I’m not, altogether, too awful. Even having lived with six different groups across six different houses, apartments, and dorms, I don’t think I’ve evolved into the best person to live with. It makes me feel a little self-conscious.

It’s a strange exercise, thinking about myself as someone else’s roommate. At the onset of senior year, it will peak at 16. Nine roommates in two years – it’s been an adventure.

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