Yes, Roommate Ghosting Is Real — Here’s Why It Happens (& How To Avoid It)

Yes, Roommate Ghosting Is Real — Here’s Why It Happens (& How To Avoid It)

At the end of my first year of college, I ghosted my roommates. Not in a “we had a falling out” kind of way — more like a quiet, middle-of-the-night exit from people I didn’t really consider friends. Let me explain. I was the last one to move into our four-person dorm about two months after school had started in the fall. (I’d been staying in temporary housing while I waited for a single-occupancy bedroom to open up.) When I finally moved into m…