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Eh I don't mind my room mates too much. My sister moved in with me and she's pretty cool, we hang out quite a bit and like to listen to most of the same music. My other room mate works near me, he's alright, a lil on the odd side. Goes to bed a lot earlier than my sister or I do, we're both awake until about midnightish and he likes to head to sleep around 8-9pm. Normally just put on my headphones and listen to my music that way or go for a walk. Otherwise I haven't had any room mate issues.

I didn't have a room mate for one semester, and I hated it. I'm not sure how you stand it.

Get a really obnoxious roommate for a year, and you'll understand.

I've never had roommates, in the classical sense. When I was on campus in college, we stayed in suites with three other guys, and we each had our own room. When I eventually got a place of my own, I was very happy living by myself. I actually wonder how well I'm going to adapt to married life when that eventually comes around, being as I'm not used to having other people around me all the time.

I don't have a lot of complaints about my old suitemates either, though that's because most of the time my friends and I requested to stay together. I did have the first set of guys I stayed with come in at four am after a LAN party once and (I think accidentally) opened the door to my room, waking me up. I slurred a series of angry curses at them, half-awake, and it never happened again. :P

When I first got to college, the first room mate I had was really quiet so I could barely hear whatever he said, but eventually he moved in with a friend elsewhere on campus, had the room to myself for about a month

Then my current room mate moved in, awesome guy, works at a Cadillac Dealership, has some of the funniest stories ever, and he buys me any fast-food I want on sundays when he comes back from home

Only bad thing is he 'destroys' the bathroom ever morning.. :(

My robotics team from school went to Pittsburgh for a tournament last year. Not being from Pittsburgh, we had to get a hotel. Two of my friends and I ended up sharing a room. They were fairly decent roommates for the most part, except when the time came for going to bed.

When I was trying to fall asleep, both of them would still be wide awake, watching some crappy stand-up comic for an hour. After that, they would finally go to sleep. Then, all of a sudden, I would wake up at a pre-dawn hour to one of them snoring like hell. I would lay there for another half-hour trying to drown out the noise until I fell asleep again.

Needless to say, I was tired the morning after.

Seriously? I did robotics the year before last and the year before that. We're only 30 minutes from Pittsburgh though, so no rooming at a hotel.

I've heard it can be a difficult adjustment, no matter how much you love the person. Of course, it's easy to understand why. It's easy to love someone when you don't have to put up with their idiosyncrasies and habits all the time; it's why you have to be careful when you room with a friend because it can easily end up destroying the friendship if you can't reconcile the differences.

I know the new trend these days is moving in together before getting married so as to get a "trial run" of how things would go living together. That way, if the relationship goes south, you don't have to worry about divorce and all that ugliness.

If you can get past the first year, you're pretty much good to go. Unless, of course, you do what my sister's ex-husband did and gamble online behind her back, take out short-term loans with falsified assets and her forged signature, rack up online loan interest and keep it all a secret until you finally forget to pick up the mail early and she finds the paperwork for that loan shark you pried 10K from.

What ends a marriage the fastest? A $70,000 gambling bill and no concept of having done anything wrong.

And that is why I have a hard and fast limit of $0 for normal gambling, and $50 for whenever I manage to get to Vegas. There are so many better things I can do with my money than flushing it down the proverbial toilet.

Not to mention doing it online, where you've got ~so much control~ over the situation...