Strangers? Nah.

And yet you shared a room with Allyson?

I had some good roommates and some Kathy-like roommates. Then I lived alone my final semester of school and that worked best. But was damned expensive. Yet still slightly cheaper than the dorm.

And yet you shared a room with Allyson?

Huh.

Huh.

Yes, you are very right. But that's Allyson dude. Strange, mayhap, but not a stranger. Like unto a giver of the good things to the people in need.

I know.

Allyson is excellent and amazing. But I've seen her apartment.

It's amazing what you'll do under the duress of moving from some place you hate.

edited to clarify: cause her apartment is neat and clean and lovely but it's still a studio, yo.

Mostly, I just worried I was in her way.

When I house-sat for Colin, the house was really echoey and empty and quiet. And then the co-housesitter showed up, and I resented him even though I never saw him.

Going back to Allyson was nice.

My freshman year, I lived in a dorm that had 13 x 9 doubles. Supposedly they made the rooms ridiculously small on purpose to encourage students to mingle in the common areas. It kinda worked. Sophomore year, same dorm, but a single. Junior year I shared a room in another dorm almost as large as Buffy and Willow's, with sink, and when my roommate had to drop out mid-year, I got to keep it as a single for the rest of the year. Senior year I had a nice single with a sink.

Penn had three apartment-style towers with rooms broadly similar to the floor plans Plei posted. A little smaller, I think. Most upperclassmen who stayed on campus lived there, but I never did, because I enjoyed the conventional dorm environment and found one of the few that catered to upperclassmen. (I know, I'm a freak.)

Ya'll are making me look meanly at my own dorm system, here.

I had a tiny little single which shared a bathroom with the other tiny little single next door. I had a desk, a dress and a bed. and a little one foot path between each thing. The desk didn't really fit properly, and I had to move it one way or the other to get into either the closet or the bathroom, both doors couldn't be opened at once!

Being a child bride I lived in a house with my DH in college. It had advantages. Brendon roomed with 2 other guys in a fairly large 2 bedroom dorm with nice size LR and Kitchen.

My first freshman year roommate was supposed to share a room with a good HS friend, but the university screwed up her assignment and put them on different floors, so I swaped with her friend after a week. The new roommate was very nice and I liked her a lot, but when I became friends with two girls down the hall, and one of them was having problems with her roomie, we all mutually agreed that I would swap again and move in with my friend at the end of the first semester. Big mistake--the girl ended up being "Kathy", all the way to putting post-it notes on the window so I wouldn't close it (even though she was not in the room and I was freezing) and on her bike so I wouldn't move it (even though it was sitting in the middle of the room and I kept on tripping over it and, again, she was nowhere to be found). She was such a bitch, but I was so sick and tired of moving that I stuck it out for the rest of the second semester.

My sophmore and junior years I had the same roommate, but when she decided to move into an apartment for senior year, I had to scramble again. Ended up with two different roommates that year, but this time I stayed put and they moved in and out. The two summers I stayed on campus, I sublet apartments. First summer, one of the guys I was subletting from stayed in his bedroom for the first two weeks of the session, and then went back home, and a friend of mine sublet that bedroom for the rest of the summer. Second summer, I was pretty much on my own, and it was wonderful!

I've had to share apartments a few times since I graduated, and I am so relieved that I am at a point financially where I don't have to worry about doing that again.

I would live in a dorm now if they'd let me bring my dog.