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Delaney and her roommate Adidia found each other through the Facebook group for their college class. They had similar interests and decided to live together. Delaney had a positive outlook on living with roommates and had a good relationship with them. Bringing in other people into the dorm caused some issues, but they were able to work through it and became closer. Delaney is happy with her decision to live with her roommates and recommends finding roommates who have some similarities but also different personalities and majors. Hello, my name is Adidia Dave and I'm sitting here with my roommate Delaney Yates. Me and Delaney have been roommates for the past two years. Delaney is an engineering major here at USC and she's also a local resident living in Lexington. So Delaney, before college even started, what was your preparation into coming to USC? I didn't really do much but pack. And then I joined the Facebook for the class of 2025 to find my roommates. And I was looking on there for about a month and then I finally posted myself and I got some girls who texted me and one of them seemed almost just like me. She danced like I do and she loves Walt Disney World like I do. So I was like, this looks like perfect. I'm going to tell her that I want to ring with her and we'll find a place to live. And then we found East Quad and we matched on there and then we had to find two other roommates. And that is how I matched with Adidia and my other roommate Anna. And that's pretty much all the preparation I did. It all seemed to work out in the end. But at the time, did you have any reservations or hopes for what you would be living with? I didn't really have any plans or any worries about living with somebody random. I get along with a bunch of people and I didn't think I would have any issues. And the first day moving in, I was with Jenna for about a week before Adidia and Anna moved in. And I had a great time with her. We watched movies. We kind of got to know each other a little bit better. And before we even moved in, we all kind of talked on Snapchat and texted each other to get to know each other and planned on who's bringing what. So I think that I had a great outlook on it. It made it a little bit easier than stepping foot into the same building as just strangers. So how did jumping into college pressures affect the relationships with those roommates? I would say whenever they started bringing people into the dorm room, it was kind of like an issue. I didn't really know who they were. It was just like random people I never met, even though they were their friends. And sometimes that would cause issues. Like me and my roommate on my side, we kind of had a little falling out thing going on. And we ended up just talking it through. And we got closer than we were before. And now I'm actually living with her next year, which is awesome and kind of crazy to think about. But other than that, I feel like I had great relationships and I kind of studied with them. We were all on the same page about everything else. So I don't think college really messed up anything. In the end, it felt like it was worth it to you to live with those people? Yeah, definitely since I'm living with them again. And going forward, is there anything you would look for specifically or recommend that other people look for in roommates? Somebody that seems a lot like you, but not too much like you, I feel like. Since I had some similarities, but we had completely different personalities, and especially in different majors. So like all different majors, it actually works out really well. All right, thank you for talking to me, Delaney.