<p>I'm absolutely loving college right now however there are some things that really **** me off. Here are a few of them:</p>
<p>-Skateboarders. Most of the walkways are brick so when a skateboard goes over them the clanking sound is absolutely unnerving. Not to mention most of them feel like they are gods gift to earth, weaving in and out of pedestrians like nothing. I cant stand them. </p>
<p>-My suitemates. I don't know, they just make me mad.</p>
<p>-My roommate at times. He has ridiculous sleeping hours. He is in bed by 10:30 and wakes up at 6:30. When he wakes up he's noisy as hell and it usually wakes me up when I have been sleeping for maybe 2-3 hours. Also makes it hard on me when I come back to the room around 11-12 and I have to be extra quiet. </p>
<p>-The cafeteria food. It sucks. The only good thing is the pizza. I hate having to eat it every day. </p>
<p>-My whole dorm. It is about as anti-social as you can get. Everyone has their own little group and shies away from eachother. It's about as opposite an experience as I thought possible. </p>
<p>10:30? that's like my really old roommate, (aka my best friend) it was pretty ridiculous but since we lived in a house I just did my homework elsewhere.</p>
<p>Yeah I have to get up at 8-8:30 and i figure its annoying my roommate too. Its not my fault my classes suck and start @ 8:30!! I wanna sleep in til 11 too dammit.</p>
<p>Well what <em>es me off sometimes is my roommate.. n my friends at times too. like my roommate goes to sleep ranging from 10-3 and expects me to adjust to it whenever. I don't mind it usually but shes loud/not that quiet when I try to goto sleep early (she came back home once with a guy at 3 in the morning... was really loud at that. I had a class at 9 the next morning) i was typing around at 1-2 am and she's like "how long are you going to be typing." i'm like... *</em>.</p>
<p>first I absolutely hate my roommate, she's a foreign exchange student from china. completely antisocial and way too quiet. whenever she's not sleeping or going to classes she sits in front of her computer working, and never leaves the dorm. how slow can she get, it's like there's no limit to the amount of work she needs to do. every night she's up till 2-3 am with two lights on.
friday night, saturday night, sunday night, always in the room doing god knows what. </p>
<p>my floor, too quiet and boring. other floors have bars and beer every night.</p>
<p>That really sucks snowyx... there's nothing more irritating than a roommate who never leaves the room. Last year my friend had a roomie like that; I'm glad I didn't, heh. Mine was annoying in other ways though.</p>
<p>I'm glad I'm not any of your roommates...you guys are full of yourselves. Obviously when two strangers are put in a room together, they aren't going to necessarily follow the same schedule. Learn to accept people's differences or make some sort of compromise. You all are acting like a bunch of high schoolers <em>gasp</em>. Grow-up!</p>
<p>8:30 classes in the morning every day, really loud roommates/suitemates/floormates when I'm trying to sleep, and the need to tell them to shut up every few days.</p>
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how is being awake at 2 and 3 in the morning 7 days a week "accept people's differences".</p>
<p>i'm suppose to be mature about this everyday for two whole semesters??!!</p>
<p>how about our "mature" roommates accept a few of our needs like shutting a few lights at 3
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Maybe you missed reading about the compromise thing, hon. Talk to her about getting a desk lamp. Also, maybe you could trying getting blindfolds for your eyes. And if you get excited over beer go out and get hammered. No light will be able to keep you up then. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>snowy that sux hard core. you should straight up have a party in your room or have your partner over, completely forget she's there and go AT IT. most likely, she's too anti-social and too awkward to say anything to your RA, and you can just be like...whatta you mean, i don't understand you SPEAK ENGRISH. it's harsh, but like....definitely entertaining, and may get her out of the room.</p>
<p>Not having any food in the cafeteria I can eat but still being forced on the meal plan. I have celiac disease which means I can't eat gluten and I'm also allergic to dairy and sensitive to the hormones in meat and eggs- so I live like a vegan except no grains and I eat fish. That means there's like two things I can eat in all 3 of the cafeterias. It sucks having to eat the same thing every day, sometimes twice a day. >.<</p>
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snowy that sux hard core. you should straight up have a party in your room or have your partner over, completely forget she's there and go AT IT. most likely, she's too anti-social and too awkward to say anything to your RA, and you can just be like...whatta you mean, i don't understand you SPEAK ENGRISH. it's harsh, but like....definitely entertaining, and may get her out of the room.
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snowy that sux hard core. you should straight up have a party in your room or have your partner over, completely forget she's there and go AT IT. most likely, she's too anti-social and too awkward to say anything to your RA, and you can just be like...whatta you mean, i don't understand you SPEAK ENGRISH. it's harsh, but like....definitely entertaining, and may get her out of the room.
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Wow, that's classy. </p>
<p>She has every right to stay in a room she's paying for. If she wants to stay there and work all day, she has every right to. Like I said though, if it is really bothersome, make a compromise. Ask her if you can have the room to yourself at X time or for X hours. She doesn't have to agree, but maybe she will. Also, talk to her about getting a desk lamp if the lights in the room are bothering you. If even that bothers you, then it's your problem not hers.</p>
<p>You all have to understand that the world, believe it or not, does NOT revolve around you. For example, my roommates bring their significant others to the room very often and they are there in the morning sometimes when people need to get ready (shower, dress, etc.), so it can be annoying. I know it won't kill me to adjust my routine a little on these days, so I do. Be flexible or you'll just be miserable.</p>
<p>No, a roommate should not stay in the room all the time. That's just plain irritating. It's nice to be able to have the room to yourself sometimes. Compromise, right? Compromise means both parties, not just one.</p>
<p>^Umm...how were both parties not involved in what I just posted? The roommate agrees not to be in the room at X time or for X hours. She is giving up some of her time in the room. snowyx1535 will have to put up with the roommate in the room when it is not X time or outside of the X hours, but she does get some time alone. Both parties are making a sacrifice...roommate with time in room, snowyx1535 with having roommate in room. Right now snowyx1535 is the only one making a sacrifice, but if roommate agrees things will even out. :rolleyes:</p>
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^Umm...how were both parties not involved in what I just posted? The roommate agrees not to be in the room at X time or for X hours. She is giving up some of her time in the room. snowyx1535 will have to put up with the roommate in the room when it is not X time or outside of the X hours, but she does get some time alone. Both parties are making a sacrifice...roommate with time in room, snowyx1535 with having roommate in room. Right now snowyx1535 is the only one making a sacrifice, but if roommate agrees things will even out.
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Ah my bad, I must've misread your post. Yes, this does seem like a pretty good solution.</p>
<p>The skateboarders don't bother me much, possibly because I sometimes skate to class.... The bricks give you the most wonderful foot massage, too. And because there is a sound, you can guesstimate speed of the rider and knwo when they are going to pass you. </p>
<p>As someone who bikes to class, I get annoyed at skinny sidewalks. Most sidewalks here at UCF are wide enough to drive on, because the maintennance guys do, late at night. (the cops too....really wierd to have a cop pull up next to you if you are out walking late at night) Those are great, because you can always fit around people without getting too close. The skinny ones are just awkward, you have to go really slow to follow behind one person until there's a break in "oncoming traffic." And my brakes are noisy, so I hate using them. </p>
<p>My roommates are ok too, but it's an apartment style dorm. They still can be noisy, and sometimes when they don't think I'mhere but I am, they'll talk about me behind my back to their friends. Because it's apartment style, I don't know anyone elsein the dorm but the RA. Overall, I know about 10 people on campus. And I really don' tknow them well. I don't know all of their last names, I don't know any of their phone numbers....so I guess my pet peeve is that apartment style dorms as a freshman doesn't let you know people. 50 thousand students, and I knew none of them when I moved here. After a month, I know about 10 as acquantences. :) </p>
<p>Other pet peeve: roommates didn't bring their own silverware or plates, so they use mine. And they almost never wash them. The sink is usually full of dirty dishes. Also, they never carried out the trash. Finally one of them bought a bigger trashcan (mine wasn't very big) and now they empty it about half the time, and I empty it the other half. I really wish they would wash the stuff when they use it, and empty the trash when they see that it is full.</p>