Those are two very different things. It does get easier with time. The way you interact with your roommate will do more to affect your school experience than all the classes, all-nighters and bad coffee combined. Some of my former roommates are among my best friends, and some aren't, but I learned things about life, and about myself from each and every one of them. A good friend of mine dropped out of school for a year because of his roommate, and another is still alive because of one of hers.
People are different.
You cannot change your roommate but you can change yourself and you just might learn something interesting in the process. While studying for her BA in English at Trinity Western University she lived with nine roommates in rooms ranging from small to tiny and one beloved apartment slightly larger than a postage stamp. This article is for all those who ate the cookies and shared the couch. I still have that couch. You need to be using Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0 or later to use this functionality.