The Truth About Living With your Best Friend in College

What I wish I knew about college: Living With Your Best Friend

I still cannot believe that I graduated college. I still feel like my 18 year old self sitting in my dorm room in awe that I was now a college student. But here I am. Giving college advice as someone who is done with college. But, since I’m done, I thought I could share one of the best pieces of advice I could give :)

Like I’ve admitted in the past, I read almost every blog post and watched every YouTube video about preparing for college. I wanted all the insight and tips I could collect to be fully prepared. But reality is, you live and you learn. And I learned a lot about friendships through living with different roommates my 4 years.

A common piece of advice I received and gathered was not to live with your best friend. Everyone said that living with your best friend would ruin that relationship. But, I’m here to tell you, the exact opposite.

Live with your best friend.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Friends come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. As I’ve gone through college, I have seen this be the case. And it is not a fun lesson to learn. But an essential one.

My senior year living situation was ideal and I miss it already. Not only did I love my roommate, but we got to live next door to other close friends and that was the biggest blessing.

In that 2 bedroom that quickly became home, I laughed until I cried, cried until I laughed, sang Broadway musicals at the top of my lungs, watched movies and really learned what it means to have a best friend.

I’ve always wanted a friend that would worship and watch church with me, someone I can tell everything to and know that they won’t tell a soul, and someone who would get to know me and support me in the ups and downs of life.

So many people warn about living with your best friend because of course there is going to be typical roommate arguments or annoyances. But the beauty of living with someone you know so well is that you can address the problem head on and know that you will still be friends after a small annoyance. Living in that apartment was not all sunshine and rainbows. Were there moments that we had to grow up and deal with conflict and resolution? Of course. But I wouldn’t change it for the world. By living with my best friend, it only solidified that I have a lifetime friend.

So, live with your best friend. It’s the best way to do college.

To Bailey. Thank you. For being my workout buddy, for pushing me to be a better version of myself, for supporting me and making me laugh. Thank you for listening to podcasts and talking about faith, always having a good movie rec, for dropping everything when I need a friend and someone to talk to. I am so grateful for you and your friendship.

Here’s to our next chapter and still being roommates in Dallas.

xoxo,

Megan