Roommates

Concerning the events of the weekend, I will have to save the details for the paper we will be writing, but I can definitely say it gave me a different way to look at the group I have been in consistently. I began to notice a lot of different habits had changed, even if they were very subtle changes within our group. Anyways, I will be saving that for the paper.

I like to observe what is happening around me, not so much what happens in class, but amongst my friends. When I do, I can’t help but to notice patterns that fit or do not fit for our particular group, and I did this when I was in my OLS 252 class last semester as well. My roommates and I are a pretty tight-knit group and despite our differing backgrounds we have somehow managed to get along. Just as a brief overview of the parts of our lives that have affected us the most, one roommate was in the past a bit far into drugs and alcohol, another has always been extremely hardcore into his Catholic faith, and my third roommate was almost entirely non-social during high school and grew up with very few friends. The behavioral patterns of each of my roommates vary so widely that I can’t help but be incredibly interested in just watching them. For example, when the first roommate (drugs) talks to my third roommate (non-social) it is clear that #1 is very comfortable in his social interaction with others, whereas #3 almost seems as if he has only learned how to interact with others through video games, and what he has seen or read. Needless to say, this produces the occasional frustrated argument and people get their feelings hurt, but at the end of the day everyone somehow just lets everything go and forgive one another.

I say all of this, is because our backgrounds and family cultures are so different, we very rarely actually fall under any of the patterns described in class. I see it amongst my family and friends back home. However, Purdue, has seen fit to provide me with a group that I don’t think anyone else could predict. I’ll be honest; it’s why I enjoy my roommates so much. Even when things seem boring, you can almost never predict what is going to actually happen next. If you could, then they would be boring.

I know this is late, but I felt like writing something regardless.

John Heritage