Her roommate is a boy

Alison finds herself unable to pay her apartment's rent on her own so, deciding she wasn't yet giving up on her decision not to live in a dorm, she started looking for someone to live with her.

Everyone in her college had already got a place to sleep as everyone had already been there for at least one month.

After asking her friends for help and not succeeding, Ali joins a roommate search website and prays she won't have any awkward or creepy interviews.

Two weeks and zero contacts later, she finally receives an email from Taylor, saying she is being transferred from the San Diego college to the UCLA (Ali's college) and she need a roommate. Alison immediately replies arranging a meeting two days from then on her apartment.

Two days later a boy shows up at her door. Taylor is a boy.