"Jones, room 324" the guy behind the desk announces and gives the room key to Terry. He gives a nod of thanks before saying:
"Thank you!"

"You are gonna love your roommate!" the guy behind the desk said, "He's a total riot to have at parties!"

"Oh, no!" Terry said, obviously somewhat disappointed. He walked away from the desk, and went up the rest of the stairs in silence. After navigating through a hallway of wild students, Terry finally found his room. Terry sighed a little before lifting the key, after unlocking the door, and gently pushes it open. Then, Terry leans in to get a view of the inside of the room, and... What he saw is an unusual sight.
On the left side the room was blank, except for Terry's bags that were on the bed, which obviously would be his bed. And the right side was decorated with three posters of colorful peace signs, a dream catcher, and the bed had rainbow-stripped sheets. Although, there was nobody in the room, approached shyly and slowly said, "Hello? Is there anyone here?"

No one answered, so Terry said, "I'm your new roommate!", But again no one answered. He decided to take a step into the room, and see that, cornered in the corner of the right side of the room, there was a pretty messy desk, and a strange figure sitting on it.
Just then, the strange purple figurejumped up from the desk, and stood in front of Terry. It was monster upside-down U shaped monster with crazy purple fur covering his entire body, and stubby arms that hung down just before his body curved.
"H-H-Hey!" The odd monster greets in a rather energetic tone. He then flips onto the made bed and lands sitting cross-legged before saying, "I'm Art! New-Age philosophy major. And you must be my new roommate!"

"Yes, I am" Terry informed him giving the friendlier smile he can. "I'm Terry Jones"

"Cool! Sure we will be best friends!" Art exclaimed while hugging Terry with his little arms.

"Umm... Sure!" said Terry trying to get loose, he isn't very affectionate to say.

"So? What will you study?" asked Art

"English" Terry smiled proudly, "I really want to major in literature"

"Fantastic!" exclaimed Art, "We have something in common!"

Pleasantly surprised, Terry asked "You like literature?"

"Oh, of course" Art said with a smile. "Granted, most of what I read is poetry, but I'm also into a few Shakespearian things. Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, things like that"

"Are you kidding? I love Shakespeare's work." Terry said, "Does the library here have a good selection of them?"

"Yep, they have tons" Art replies, "Plus, there's several other books there's I'm sure you'd like"

"That sounds cool!"

They continued talking all afternoon, knowing and having fun. Terry thought that Art was a pretty awesome guy and grateful that he had touched a roommate.
Days later, Terry had taken the pace at college environment. He attended their classes without any delay, and genuinely participatory and enthusiastic. Several monsters were jealous of Terry as the days have come to the university and the student was more emphasized in the class. Having come late to college and, therefore, having started the semester late, Terry had studied hard and stand out to catch up. The few weeks that fell behind on his studies, recovered in a couple of days getting, in turn, the reputation of the best student in the class.