What You'll Miss About Your Roommate This Summer

By Kaitlin Hurtado on June 21, 2017

While summer does mean many things — a less stressful schedule, spontaneous day trips, endless napping opportunities — it also may mean that you are going to have to part with your roommate for a few months.

It may be because you are in between leases or that one or both of you are going back home or on vacation instead of spending time in your apartment. The thought may be a little sad to be apart from someone you spent nearly every day of the past academic year with (or maybe a little bit happy because sometimes you just need some space), but here are a few things that you will definitely find yourself missing when you find yourself without your roommate for the summer.

The “quick” conversations that quickly turn into lost sleep

You know, those conversations that spark when your bedroom lights are about to turn off. You are nearly ready for bed, maybe even completely tucked in and your phone already charging for the night, but one of you voices something they just remembered about their day — something their professor did, a rude customer. The few sentences quickly launch into an in-depth discussion that completely derails from the initial topic. Before you know it, the both of you are completely awake, no traces of the sleepiness you had an hour ago.

Conversations like these happen often, not necessarily just before going to sleep. They can happen when you are about to go on a “quick” study break, which turns into you watching a movie on Netflix together, both voicing complaints about how the other made them procrastinate as the ending credits roll.

Over summer, you can still text, call, or contact via social media, but it won’t be the same as the in-person conversations you have grown used to over the past year(s).

The ability to have two (or more) conversations at once 

These often happen in your room, when both of you are in conversation and trying to avoid any responsibilities in the near future. One or both of you pick up your phones or open your laptop, bringing up Twitter or Instagram. The other soon gets a notification that they were tagged in the comments of a photo or tagged in a reply to a tweet. On top of the conversation already happening in your room, conversation is fueled by sending the latest meme or piece of celebrity gossip on social media.

Sometimes a video compilation of fails is just too funny to be watched alone and you huddle on one’s bed to watch and make fun of the content. The homework sitting on your desk? Forgotten.

You can still send each other tweets over summer, but the experience won’t be the same if you can’t get to laugh at it together (or when you don’t have the other to explain the joke when you don’t quite get it).

Having a binge-watch-marathon buddy whenever and wherever

Whenever Netflix releases something new — whether it’s the new season of Orange is the New Black or a new release like A Series of Unfortunate Events – you already know your roommate is ready to binge-watch the newest release with you. Both of you are completely ready to leave your class readings untouched for a night (or two), put together as much junk food as you can, and camp out on your couch to start and finish a season to avoid getting it spoiled through browsing Twitter even a couple of days after the release.

Binge-watching Netflix just won’t be the same by yourself; you’re left to face the little bit of shame that comes when Netflix asks “Are you still watching?” halfway into a season in a single season (we’ve all been there). There will be no roommate to scoff and talk back that yes, of course, you are still there.

The more chill and relaxed version of your parents

While your roommate may very well be your best friend, they could easily pass for your college mom or dad at one point or another. It can be as small as cleaning up after you when you are feeling a little too lazy — cleaning up the dishes you leave in the sink, picking up your chores when you can’t do them.

It also turns into them catching you on your way out to a party late at night, delaying your departure with a questioning that would make your parents proud. Where are you going? Who are you going with? Are you spending the night? How are you getting home? Do you have a designated driver?

Of course, your roommate isn’t the one to keep you from your night out — they’ll most likely encourage it citing that you deserve to treat yourself after a stressful week of school and work (but they’ll still throw a jacket at you anyway).

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