[Otter74]

Didn't know anyone got to choose their roommates. When I started engineering school (Ga Tech) in the early 90s, my roommates were assigned to me. One of my freshman roommates is still a good friend 27 years later. None of the others were terrible, though one worked night shift at a UPS warehouse and would come back in the middle of the night and turn on the TV - there wasn't a lot on, so I remember waking up to dolphin chirps as he watched 'Flipper'. In art school after that (CCS), my roommates were again assigned. None were terrible, two were in my program and one was extremely good at what he did (he went on to design the FJ Cruiser), and it's always good to have someone better than you are around when you're working to get better, too. All of them were about 4 years younger than me, which at that age felt like about 20 years younger. That was only first year - after that I got an apartment with a friend I met my first semester, who is also still a great friend, 22 years later.