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Freshman Blog: Roommate Fun!

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Katie O'Shea
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Emily Cleary
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Illinois chapter.

Now that we have all been at college for about 6 months, we are pretty used to campus life, schoolwork, and hopefully, living with our roommates. It’s easy for your relationship with a roommate to go bad really quickly, or for your friendship to just kind of fizzle out because you make new friends, one joins a sorority and the other doesn’t, or a variety of other reasons. So, here are some tips to hopefully mend a broken roommate friendship or just revive one that is going by the wayside.
 
Take a Trip to ARC or CRCE
 
Get together with your roommate for some quality workout time together. You can talk and gossip with each other on the elliptical, which will help you not only catch up on each other’s busy lives, but it will also make your workout seem less like…a workout. Helping each other get those endorphins going will not only put some life back into your friendship, but also get you both those hot bodies you’ve been wanting! Make a plan to workout two or three times a week with your roomie, and you both will be healthier and happier!
 
Plan a Movie Night

 
Take a break from hitting up the bars for a night, and kick back with a romantic comedy, like 27 Dresses, Friends with Benefits (much better than No Strings Attached), or if you are feeling like crying, something like The Notebook. Nothing brings two girls together like popcorn and a sappy love story. This is especially a good thing to do together if your roommate isn’t the “going out” type. Taking a night out of your busy social schedule will show her that you care enough to spend time with her.
 
Homework and Coffee
 
On a night when you are both swamped with homework, take a trip over to Espresso Royale or Starbucks and crank out some work together. You both can bond over how much work you have to do for RHET 105, or how you have absolutely no idea what is going on in STAT 100. And of course, a non-fat caramel vanilla latte will help you stay up late enough to get everything done.
 
Hope this helps your roommate friendships get back on track, collegiettes!

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Emily Cleary is a 22-year-old news-editorial journalism major hoping to work in the fashion industry, whether that be in editorial, marketing, PR or event planning is TBD. With internships at Teen Vogue and StyleChicago.com, it's clear that she is a fashion fanatic. When she's not studying (she's the former VP of her sorority, Delta Delta Delta), writing for various publications or attending meetings for clubs like Business Careers in Entertainment Club, Society of Professional Journalists, The Business of Fashion Club, or for her role as the Assistant Editor of the Arts & Entertainment section of her school's magazine, she's doing something else; you will never find her sitting still. She loves: running (you know those crazy cross-country runners...), attending concerts and music festivals, shopping (of course), hanging out with friends, visiting her family at home, traveling (she studied abroad in London when she was able to travel all over Europe), taking pictures, tweeting, reading stacks and stacks of magazines and newspapers while drinking a Starbuck's caramel light frappacino, blogs and the occasional blogging, eating anything chocolate and conjuring up her next big project. Living just 20 minutes outside of Chicago, she's excited to live there after graduation, but would love to spend some time in New York, LA, London or Paris (she speaks French)!