Vanessa Morgan, 19, College Dropout That's what Vanessa imagined her resume looking like at the time. She was 19, living alone, and jobless, living off of the graduation money she had gotten. She had just turned 19 and not even half way through her first semester at college, but she stressed about crawling out of bed every morning to go to classes. So she did the most reasonable thing she could think of and dropped out. Not knowing what to do, she searched through endless Craigslist ads for people looking for roommates. After hours, she found a girl who was also 19, who lived a few hours from her, in Vancouver. Vanessa had found her new roommate.