Playing devil’s advocate here I’ll write the same post from the point of view of the new roommate:
I have a new roommate. We’re both transfers. From social media she looks really young for her age but you don’t have to be best friends with your roommate, right?
On move-in day she texted me that she was in the room and I said she could take whatever side she wanted and that I’d be there soon. It took me a little longer than expected to get there so I wasn’t surprised she’d gone to lunch. There was nothing in the kitchen so I unpacked my things. I figured we could rearrange things over the weekend. I realized we didn’t have any utensils or pots and pans so I bought some inexpensive ones for us and asked her to split the cost. I also asked whether she’d like to buy a few things to brighten up the living room and make it our own. My roommate went MIA for the weekend so I haven’t gotten a chance to talk to her about any of this or work out the ground rules face to face. I just got a text from her saying she’d already bought kitchen stuff. Then why didn’t she unpack it or at least tell me she had it in her boxes?