College can be some of the best years of your life — especially if you have a roommate who doubles as a BFF. Whether she’s a neat freak like Schmidt or a kid at heart like Nick, here’s how you know you’ve really found the perfect one.
1. You and your roomie share more with each other than you are willing to admit.
Whether it’s clothes, hair products or makeup, there’s basically an unwritten rule that everything in the room belongs to both of you.
2. She doesn’t judge you for your Netflix addiction.
A good roommate ignores how you have started yet another TV series on Netflix. A great roommate comes home from class and binge-watches it with you (and brings snacks!).
3. There’s a mutual understanding of when one of you needs the room to yourself.
Even if getting sexiled for the second weekend in a row is a major inconvenience for her, she’s gonna let you do your thing. And you love her for that.
4. Your roomie is the first person you tell exciting news to.
And if she isn’t replying to your text messages, you feel perfectly justified using any other means of communication to get a hold of her. This includes screaming her name across the quad or writing, “TEXT ME NOW” in all caps on the whiteboard on your dorm room door.
5. She’s always quick with a much-needed reality check.
Someone’s gotta be there to tell you when you’re misreading the signs. He asked to borrow your pencil. Maybe you walked to class together. But you’re not in love. Got it? Good.
6. One of you might be super clean and the other is super messy, but you still get along.
No one likes to be called a slob, so when the room gets just a little too trashed, we really appreciate our roomie calling it like it is and telling us to pick up our stuff. No passive-aggression needed.Â
7. You act as each other’s therapists during late-night discussions.Â
Unleashing the existential crises into the early hours of the morning? Bring it on.
8. And she becomes emotionally invested in your problems.
Your pain is my pain, roomie.
9. She respects when you just need to be by yourself.
Every girl’s preferred meltdown medicine: Ben & Jerry’s. Your roomie always gets your favorite flavor (plus, she knows your top three backups in case they’re out) and never fails to bring it to you after you’re done having a private meltdown in the dorm.
10. You have “a look.”
Usually given to each other when you “literally can’t even,” when an ex-fling is spotted on campus or in any other equally awkward situation that words just can’t do justice.
11. She unquestioningly hates the same people you hate.
“Do we like her?”
“No.”
“Got it.”
12. Partying just isn’t the same without her.
*BRB drinking away my sorrows because my roomie isn’t here*
13. When you do go out together, you’re masters of playing it cool when your RA catches you sneaking in past curfew.Â
 “Oh, we were just in the library. Yes, at 2 in the morning. We’re studious, okay?”
14. Sunday mornings are spent helping each other make sense of Saturday night’s drunk texts.
You try to tell her it’s all going to be okay, even though you know she really messed up this time. Like, really messed up.
15. But most importantly, you know your roomie is always going to have your back, and you couldn’t imagine going through college without her.
Before you know it, college is over. While all the parties, exams and boy drama seemed so important at the time, nothing lasts more than a friendship with the person who loved being stuck with you in a cramped, little dorm room. We love you, roomie.Â