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Freshmen sign up to play roommate roulette

She could be your best friend. Or she could make your freshman year miserable.

This summer, incoming college freshmen will learn the name of the person with whom they will spend nine months living in a roughly 15-foot by 10-foot dorm room.

The experience is both exhilarating and frightening. Thoughts of independence â?? yes! â?? are followed shortly by questions about who this stranger is, and what sort of irksome idiosyncrasies do they possess?