Well, hello again!

As much as I would have preferred to live with someone I knew freshman year, I am still glad that I had the opportunity to live with someone random instead. I lived in Stetson West in the Bouve LLC, so I was surrounded by other pharmacy, health science, nursing, and speech therapy majors. In fact, my roommate was a Health Science major…at first. Although we did live together, I would not say that we were exactly “friends”. However, we did respect one another so we did not encounter too many roommate problems within our room. I would not say that either one of us significantly affected the other, but we did in many small ways.

My roommate was a soccer player and played intermural for a while. She also liked to go to the gym and run and often I would see her stretching on our rug between our beds. Although I do like to stay active, by doing things such as playing sports, (especially tennis!) I have never been a big fan of working out or running. But seeing my roommate do it as norm sparked a small interest in me to start going to the gym as well.

As far as academics and my GPA, I was far more studious than my roommate was. I would like to think that my study habits influenced her, but I cannot be certain. On the other hand, her study habits did affect me, but in a good way. I think her lack of studying pushed me to do so even more because I worried about my grades more. I knew that I would never be able to be as carefree as she was, and so I strived even harder to do well in my classes.This year, I have not really kept in touch with her. I texted her once asking about the dorm she lives in now and have seen her only a couple times on campus. Last year I went on Alternative Spring Break and have a great time and I believe that influenced her decision to participate in it this year.  It also turns out that the Alternative Spring Break trip I decided to do last minute is the same one she is participating in. And I think that’s kind of funny, especially since I saw her/waved to her the day I found out.