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by Jessica Monk - August 01, 2006

Describe a roommate in your first year of college who would greatly influence your college experience and your life.

There’s no way that it’s morning already. I hear footsteps running down the hall; eight hours ago this would have been considered typical, but now, it’s completely ludicrous. The door to my dorm room swings open with a nauseating kind of reality, shattering any possibilities that I might have been dreaming. It was her again, I knew it. What did she…

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