University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Around The House Both Sides Now X reshman year she was the one with whom you went to the dining hall for the first time, scoped the guy from the Morris- sey mixer and discovered the wonders of dining hall cuisine. Sophomore year he was the one who convinced you to stick it out in CHEG and a week later, you actually passed your orgo exam. Junior year she made you a part of her family for Junior Parents ' Weekend when your parents couldn ' t make the trip. Senior year he astonished you when he transformed what little remained in your off-campus kitchen cabinet into an edible, even gourmet, meal. These were your roommates and the laughs, the arguments, the four a. m. discussions and the awful Screw-Your-Roommate dates they arranged formed an important, and sometimes the most challenging, aspect of college life. Having a roommate taught you the art of compromise and the lesson of seeing situa- tions from both sides yours and theirs. Nothing could compare with the feeling you experienced, when after finally crashing at five a. m. for the third night in a row, your day person roommate ' s alarm blared an hour later. Or, after trying desperately for two hours to clean up your room and get reacquainted with the color of your carpet, your own personal hurricane roared in, undoing all your efforts. 16 Roommates

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Photo by Thomas J. white HEADS UP. Sophomore Andy Ccrnicky is about to start off the night as Mark Kennedy pitches him a Molson while Tom Burke and Kurt Shinn get ready for another round. TIL THE TIDE ROLLS IN. Blowing off a few classes, Christine Ortega and Patrice Powers try to recapture visions of Daytona Beach on B.P. ' s Pebble Beach. Residential Zone 15

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On the other side, nothing could compare with the feeling you experienced when he threw that surprise birthday party for you, or when she offered at midnight to start typing your term paper while you scribbled the last three pages down. After all, he was the one who, after dashing up four floors in his excitement, handed you the envelope containing your first job offer. She was the one who brought you the Dainty Maid cake declaring He ' s a loser! the night you broke up with your boyfriend. He bought you shots all night on your twenty-first birthday when he should have been studying for an early morning midterm. She ironed your dress so you could finish curling your hair as your date for the formal knocked on the door. Around the dorms we called home, two people who had to put up with each other ' s idiosyn- cracies, bad habits, strange friends, weird hours and boring jokes formed unique and memor- able relationships. Although roommates could live in the same place and yet see it in two entirely different lights, the adjusting, the compromising and the accepting always went on, ODD COUPLE. Trying to live together despite the obvious differences, Ed Daley and Mike Flynn seem to have reached a happy medium. year after year until gradua- tion day transformed room- mates into fellow alumni, who would bore their kids with endless stories about that nut I roomed with. Roommates taught you there ' s two sides to everything but, in the end, you realized they were on your side all along. $ - Kathleen Coughlin Roommates 1 7