With the weather finally warming up on the east coast and the school year winding down, now is the perfect time for thousands of high school kids to visit colleges around the country in hopes of finding The One. For high school juniors in particular, this is the period where tours of the various institutions they’re thinking of applying to are taken before they finally send out applications in the fall and begin crossing their fingers.

One of the most anxiety inducing parts of the college application process, aside from worrying about whether the dining hall food will cause your insides to rot or how you’ll possibly do your laundry without your mom around, is the long, drawn out wait that stands between you and the day you meet your roommate. While visiting prospective schools, kids will marvel at the academic buildings, listen to the tour guide ramble about how fantastic the student-faculty ratio is, and try to imagine themselves fitting in on campus, but in the back of their mind, one question will persist: “What the hell is my roommate going to be like?”

That’s where the inspiration for this post came from. While thinking of the many high schoolers around the nation who are stressing about whether they’ll match well with the random stranger they’ll be forced to live with, I asked myself a related question: “What DC athletes would make the best college roommate pairings?” So I began searching up and down the rosters of DC’s teams to look for the best combinations, and did my best to find the guys who would mesh well with each other and form a splendid duo.

Here is what I came up with. Read More