Tristen. Iris. Nicole. What do all of these three people have in common? They were all once or currently my roommates. I started OVS in 7th grade and have had three roommates. I know some people who have had five different roommates over three years.   I also know people who have kept the same roommate for four years. I’m glad to have had my past roommates. They all have been wonderful people and I never had any problems with them.

When I first started OVS four years ago, my roommate was a girl named Tristen. Tristen was my roommate for the two years I was at Lower Campus. She was a great roommate, but she was always losing things. Most of the time she would ask me where her stuff was and 99.9% of the time I had an answer for her. “I can’t find my laptop.” Literally my answer was one single word: closet. No joke, everything she lost was in her closet and if it wasn’t there it was down the side of her bed. I really don’t understand how it always ended up in her closet. I am going to be confused for life on that one.

Iris was my roommate last year. We were both new students at Upper, and for the first week or two I barely spoke two words to her. Then one day, I don’t know how, but we started talking. After that, we were staying up late, making jokes, helping each other with homework, and just talking about home and simple things like that. Nicole some nights would come to our room and we were always crazy and loud. It was such a fun way to start off high school and I am so glad I had an amazing roommate like Iris last year. When the end of the year came around, we decided to have different roommates. We also agreed that if we didn’t like them we would be roommates again for junior and senior year. I had a few ideas of people I wanted to be roommates with, but my current roommate was the person I really wanted to be roommates with: Nicole.

I have known Nicole for four years now. We weren’t very close in middle school, but last year we got really close and we had this great idea of being roommates for our sophomore year. I remember walking into my room the first day of school. I saw Nicole’s name next to mine and I freaked out. I was so happy. We have already had tons of fun this year and we have been really good about doing our homework. We of course goof around and we are literally always with each. Nicole is my perfect match as a roommate; she knows when to be serious about stuff or when to leave me alone. After I have had a bad day, it is good to have Nicole there to help me laugh a little bit. Or laugh so much that I fall off the bed. Nicole and I have decided that we are going to be “roomies for life.” I find us to be quite the comedy team. We are just great together. I love you Nicole and I hope we get to be roommates for the rest of high school.