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Roommates can be longtime friends
Deborah Fraser/KANSAN
Roommates Andrew Leicht, and Jeffrey Haddock, seniors from St. Louis, Mo., Benjamin Hornung, a senior from Council Grove, and Mason McMullen, a senior from Sublette, play video games together in their house. The four students met during their freshman year and have lived together since then.
BY ELLEN SHEFTEL
esheftel@kansan.com
The saying goes that the friends you meet in college will be the friends for the rest of your life. But is it really true? Four seniors who met freshman year and have stayed friends would say yes.
Ben Hornung, a senior from Council Grove, met jeff Haddock, a senior from St. Louis, in 2006, their freshman year. Haddock lived with Andrew Leicht, a senior from St. Louis, whom he knew from high school. The three men met in Templin Hall and began hanging out. Hornung met Mason McMullen, a senior from Sublette, who also lived in the same dorm, in his classes. The four men started hanging out and going to the dining hall together.
When it came time to decide the living plans for sophomore year, the four decided to live together. Originally, five to six guys had planned on living together with the men.
"We didn't want to get something crazy. The four of us were just closer
anyways," Haddock said. As for junior year, Hornung moved out, Leicht moved in, and Haddock and Hornung lived next door. The boys have been reunited for senior year and are living in a house on 12th Street.McMullen is very happy with the experience he has had living with the four men.
"We haven't had any serious problems, and I'm pretty laid back so nothing really gets to me too often," McMullen said.
McMullen said he and his roommates have enough similarities and differences to balance each other out.
"I don't regret not living with other people. I have lived with other people before and it didn't work out so well," McMullen said. "This is just a solid group of guys."
As for the future, the men are dispersing but hope to stay friends.
"I hope we will see each other very often, but I don't know where everyone will end up,"McMullen said.
Edited by Taylor Bern
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