<p>I'll be living in the dorms in the fall (suite style) and I'm worried about living with younger roomates and them asking me to buy them alcohol (I'll be 21 in october) they don't have any just for transfers so everyone is all mixed up. Anyone have any experience with living with younger roomates? was this ever a problem or should I not have to worry?</p>
<p>Just tell them you dont feel comfortable doing so…or, tell them youre going to be 20, not like theyll ever know.</p>
<p>or you can charge them a fee for buy them alcohol and make some money from it, if not then just lie about your age</p>
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<p>The OP probably doesn’t feel comfortable buying his younger roommates’ alcohol because of the legal ramifications. That only exacerbates the potential for serious legal issues!</p>
<p>No one said you had to tell them you were going to be 21.</p>
<p>And if they can’t respect you saying no, then they’re not worth your time… so what does it matter?</p>
<p>I was a junior living with a freshman last year, also a transfer student. It kind of sucked. She was still convinced she was a varsity cheerleader and queen of the school, which is something I have not had to deal with for three years. I had long since grown out of the kind of drama which infested her life, and she was just fake and mean. But that was just her, she was really immature. I’d like to think not all college freshmen are like that.</p>
<p>If your roommate asks you to buy alcohol, just say no. Just because you are 21 does not mean you are in any way obligated to put yourself at risk buying alcohol for minors. I not only didn’t buy alcohol but asked her not to bring it into our room so that I couldn’t conceivably be on the hook for her delinquency (although I worded it more nicely than that… lol.) It was pretty much a non-issue.</p>
<p>Take advantage of her when she is asleep and tell her that you will black mail her if you she tells anyone. I am talking about the drinks of course you perverts, don’t even try to get her drunk</p>
<p>Can you request to dorm with a specific person if you find a fellow transfer student through college confidential or facebook?</p>
<p>Well, the law makes you obligated to say no if they’re under 21.</p>
<p>If you can’t even say no when you have a perfectly good excuse such as explicit legal ramifications, how can you handle other types of peer pressure?</p>
<p>Buy them alcohol and then they do something bad and sue you for negligence. Or someone who gets hurt as a result of them having consumed alcohol that you willingly furnished to them. </p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>Tell them no.</p>
<p>You’re the adult in the building.</p>
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<p>I don’t think its so much the not being able to say no as its the ensuing conversation from saying no:
Come on dude!
Please Dude?
I’ll like pay you!
You’d be the coolest roommate ever!</p>
<p>And this same conversation repeated every weekend.</p>
<p>^If that happened to me I’d threaten to tell the RA if they didn’t buzz off. Maybe that makes me uncool but someone begging me to risk legal consequences for them every weekend would get old really fast.</p>
<p>alcohol is wack, orange juice is were it’s at.</p>
<p>Can you request a non-freshman? It’s a lot different for a 21 year old to room with a 19 or 20 year old than with a 17 or 18 year old. At least a sophomore is a little removed from high school so you don’t have to deal with the transition from h.s. to college living. Like Ema.07 posted (#6) freshman are still figuring out that college life is a lot different than high school so it’s a huge age difference. </p>
<p>If they ask you to buy liquor just say no - if they really want it they will get it elsewhere. Or don’t tell them how old you are.</p>
<p>If you say no once and don’t buy it for anyone, they’ll leave you alone.</p>
<p>Underagers drink in college, it’s inevitable. Someone is going to buy him alcohol, I dont see the hurt in it. You don’t see 18 year olds killing people with cars in a dorm room. You do find them killing people quite frequently driving home from that frat party 3 miles off campus.</p>
<p>Decisions, Decisions</p>
<p>Just buy him high gravity alcohol, that way he can’t go anywhere and make an ass of himself.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice everyone! and for the record I am a girl lol.</p>
<p>I’m in the opposite situation…I did random roommate and got paired with a soph…I’m a freshman. I don’t think it’ll be a big deal. And for the record, not ALL freshman drink. You might get lucky!</p>
<p>I got a freshman… GREAT V_V.</p>
<p>Please do try to go in with an open mind. Some of the freshmen on my floor were really a lot of fun and I wouldn’t have minded rooming with them at all. My particular roommate just came from a background where she was hero worshiped and she fell flat on her ass when she got to college and I had to deal with the aftermath. lol</p>
<p>What was funny was on move in day when her parents realized I was so much older. They looked at me like they were afraid I would corrupt her the moment they walked out the door.</p>