<p>Hi, I'm a student at MTSU and we just started classes this week. My assigned roommate is terrible. Whenever I'm gone, he uses my things without asking. He also wakes up at 4 in the morning and plays my xbox. this wouldn't be too bad but I have some classes at night so I barely get any sleep whenever he does this. He also brings over random people all the time to use my stuff without asking. He also doesn't bathe and stinks up the room. Anyways, I found out that I have a friend from that lives in the same resident hall and he has a bad roommate as well. I was wondering if there was a way we could swap roommates or somehow live together? Thanks</p>
<p>Why do you think that we can answer this question? Talk to your RA.</p>
<p>Sorry I meant more along the lines of do these seem like reasonable circumstances to get a room/roommate change?</p>
<p>If these things continue within the next week, then absolutely go for the room change. Of course, you’ll have to go talk to your RA who will try to fix things first. But hopefully, you’ll be able to get out of what sounds like a crappy situation.</p>
<p>Have you discussed these issues with your roommate? If not, then he has no way of knowing that he has violated your boundaries. If yes, then it is a reason to approach the RA for a roommate change.</p>
<p>Yeah, if your roommate smells that’s definitely grounds for a room switch. That’s not something you’d want to try to resolve… “Hey, you smell terrible. Mind improving your hygiene?” One of my roommates would wear the same socks for weeks (he even mentioned it to us…)</p>
<p>Well, you could first try to change it. Is it just our school, or I thought everyone with room mates had to fill out some sort of room mate agreement that addresses these issues like when to stop watching tv/playing games, what will be shared, what you need to ask permission to use… etc. If you had filled one out you could go to your RA.
Otherwise you should talk to the person directly. Say that you would prefer he ask before using your things, that you want to be sleeping by x time so you would like it if he would be respectfully quiet or try to sleep then as well, and for showering… just keep mentioning when it gets back something along the lines of “Whoa dude… did you forget to shower today?” Eventually he might get the hint and start doing it on a regular basis if this occurs often enough.</p>
<p>this is why they invented single rooms and they should be available starting freshman year!
when people look at colleges the should really check out the dorms and how you may wind up in a triple or double all four years! your housing should be a make or break for your college choice. that said you need to realize that to live with your friend, somebody other than the two of you will have to move (good luck with that) and second your friend may also be a crappy room mate!</p>