What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? While going to school or university, many students have to live with roommate In fact, roommates can influence on your quality of campus life, friends you make with, even the academic achievement A student should notice the importance of roommates and carefully chose good roommates when she or he initially goes to school The issue is worth discussing over three dimensions below First, the definition of a good roommate have to reach some basic standards, for example, she or he must be free from drug abusing, alcoholic drinking, illegal activity and so on Besides, she or he have to be clean, friendly and is pleased to give a hand to other people in need of help In my opinions, Most of student in school want to find a roommate like what I describe above Second, a school, university especially, is accommodated over hundred or thousand students from different families, ethnic groups, and regions, even countries They possessed diverse thinking style and habit which may be good or bad If a student lives with a roommate who does like to solve problems in violent way, It could be terrible to imagine the situation while a dispute happening between them Instead, when I live with a rational, peaceful and listening roommate, It is easy to get along with and can benefit each other whatever in study or communicative skills Third, a good roommate could be a good friend even after graduating from school The employer of plastic raw material company in which my father serves now was his roommate at university twenty years ago They kept in touch closely for a long time, and supported each other in work or in recreation exercises Until now, the two families members have kept the best friendship in the world Finding a good roommate and live together in school is the first thing any freshman should devote himself to doing while receiving a letter of admission for school It is also a critical period to decide what person a student will become when she or he chose a roommate