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"I&amp;amp;#8217;m forever intrigued by weird college roommate stories. A good friend had two roommates her first semester in college. One of them is still a close friend. The other slept in the nude and insisted lights out by 9:30pm. Another pal awoke one night to the sound of running water. Her roommate&amp;amp;#8217;s super drunk boyfriend mistakenly took her desk for a restroom and ended up urinating all over her grad school applications. It&amp;amp;#8217;s nice though, once you get to know people and you can actually request roommates and not get stuck with luck of the draw oddballs. But can you imagine if schools took it one step further? Columbia University is raising lots of eyebrows with their new housing policies. According to Salon, next fall, the university will allow all students, except freshmen, to request roommates of the opposite sex. If you want to share your dorm with your best friend who happens to be a guy? No sweat! If you and your man have decided to take it to the next level, go for it. No more bribing the prudish gal you room with to give you a few hours of alone time. The article points out that this might eliminate the dreaded walk of shame. Though humiliating, isn&amp;amp;#8217;t it kind of a rite of passage? Also, it provides great entertainment for the future. Years ago, three girlfriends and I went out to Sunday brunch at a very nice restaurant to celebrate a birthday. Three of us completely dolled ourselves up. The other? Not so much. We still give her grief about it. In a loving way, of course. I think a big issue that the Salon article doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t bring up is breakups. What happens if you and your boyfriend call things off after a few weeks? Are you stuck with each other? Imagine the horrible awkwardness of encountering your ex with his new fling. In your room. Ew. Perhaps midterm Columbia will allow its students to request new roommates to accommodate for such sticky situations. If not, let&amp;amp;#8217;s hope your new beau doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t dorm with his ex. Is this a good idea? Would you share a dorm room with your boyfriend? Are you still giving any of your pals a hard time about a particularly memorable walk of shame? Be cool to your school with even more college stories. * What new sexual experience did you try in college? * Oh my. John from Single-ish asks his college girlfriend what she thought of him. * Are you still friends with any of your college roommates? More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images. Image used for illustrative purposes only."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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