Soon after arriving on campus, I met my freshman roommate, a skinny guy with wire-rimmed glasses, dark curly hair and a secondhand Army jacket.

What do you do when you find out your freshman roommate is black?

Her freshman roommate was a senior, who would occasionally lock her out of her room.

In New York, he celebrated with his freshman roommate from Harvard University.

Last summer she corresponded regularly with one of her two freshman roommates, but the other was traveling and hard to reach.

By chance, his freshman roommate at the historically black college, a student from Long Island named Isaac Shareef, was also an aviation buff.

In the end, Mr. Smith, the Brandeis junior, learned to like his freshman roommates.

And we did one survey that found that 80 percent of our seniors were still living with their freshman roommates.

As a matter of fact, I didn't have my curiosity satisfied until I went to college and my freshman roommate enlightened me.