As the last car drove off, the campus was left mostly empty save for essential staff, a few foreign exchange students and those who didn't really have anywhere to go. Both Tom and Matt were just such people that happened to be roommates.
In their third year, they had happened into being matched up in their freshman year and had stuck with it ever since. Both had families of not much in the way of means and a long distance to go so it was really feasible to travel. Besides, it was a crisp December afternoon and there was a lot to do.
Tom was roughly 6', with a average build tending towards athletic with a mess of brown hair, glasses, a maintained short beard, lightly tanned skin and, at this moment, casual dress of pj pants and a sweatshirt with the university's donkey mascot on it. Matt was a bit slimmer, Asian but with glasses as well and a crop of black hair and the same fashion sense. Tom relaxed on his bed watching tv while Matt sipped a beer and sat at his computer.
Of course, things wouldn't be boring for much longer.