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What's wrong with thi .. picture? Friends Gary Owen and Erin Thompson posing Iwo exlremes When not in their apartment, Dave Heritage and Eddie Deniz don't mlndjusl allin' Around oomates and friends: sometimes they're the best of friends, and sometimes they're a contradiction of terms, The first year here may have decided it all for you. If you were one of the lucky ones, were involved. This opportunity you were assigned to someone will have surrounded you with you had lots of things in common new friends. Affinity suites in with and got along with great. AI· Mclea, the garden apartments though the two of you may switch and the houses on Pennsylvania rooms or dorms, you could de- Avenue offered fun in a group cide to stick together for four setting in addition to occasional years. If the administration stuck privacy. But it did mean living in you with someone opposite from a small space with (without com you in every possible way, you mitting suicide or murder) more probably tried to find friends than one person. Many decided elsewhere. [t seems that most of- to live off-campus in apartments ten that first year good friends on Main Street or in the Greens. are found nearby in the dorm Some, either too difficult to get Living arrangements, then, be- along with any roomate or simply came important to most of us. used to liVing alone and havlnq After freshman year you got to things their own way, chose to choose to live with whomever live in singles with their friends you wanted. You could have re- next door or down the hall. Wher- turned to a double room on an ever you live and whomever you Room,te,/F,'end,se old floor or a new roomate on one decide to live with could be one of the independent floors. Frater- of the most important decisions nity and sorority floors were a of college life, right up there possibility if you became friends along with such trivial things as with some upperclassmen who your major and your career.