<p>My roommate hasn't washed his sheets since we've been here, which was august. He never does laundry, also in part because he only has 4 t-shirts and 2 pairs of jeans that he wears. His side of the room is a dump!!! Never empties his trash, and just sits around all day and plays world of warcraft!!!! We're not friends, but we do talk and get along. Furthermore, he always brings smelly food into the room and it makes the room smell horrid, so i usually crack open the window which he doesn't like, and i'll open the blinds to let in natural light but he doesn't like that and usually shuts them. He's a hermit, and has no fondness for personal hygiene, in fact, i don't even think he brushes his teeth. He is pretty smart, he has a 3.8 gpa bio major premed, and wants to be a doctor, but if he wants to be a doctor then he needs to start cleaning up and acting like one!!!!! AWWW!!!! What to do????</p>
<p>Try talking to him (nicely) about it first. If that doesn’t work, go to your RA and have him make a “surprise” visit to your room. When he sees it, have him make a comment, such as “Man, someone needs to do some laundry!”</p>
<p>He -is- acting like a doctor. I’m not saying this to be offensive in any way because it is the truth. Doctors and interns are always horribly rushed during the day, and sometimes they do not even get time to eat. A great number of them are very sloppy as a result of the stress placed on them. What can I say? It’s a high octane job… and a 3.8 GPA as a biology major is ridiculous enough to maintain.</p>
<p>Sometimes you can lead by example-- if you are seen to be making an effort to clean up and change your sheets etc-- maybe he’ll man up. Otherwise I suggest offering to wash the offending items and charge him for the service! We have all lived thru crappy roommates–its almost a college rite of passage!</p>
<p>@Recharge: yeah health professionals are super busy but they’re expected to look presentable and not be disgusting or patients would complain. Hospitals have showers for the staff because they frequently come in contact with blood/vomit/gross stuff. This is a college kid, not a neuro resident working 80 hours a week…no excuse.</p>
<p>Anyway if your roommate is sitting on his ass playing World of Warcraft all day, he obviously has time to take a shower. Be nice, but honest. it’s not like you’re an OCD neat freak here, it’s not too much to expect someone to bathe regularly and brush their teeth, right? i wouldn’t wash his stuff for him either…you’re not his mom. that’s just enabling him, really.</p>
<p>Lol @ Recharge… Neglecting personal hygiene is in no way characteristic of a doctor…</p>
<p>@OP, your roommate is a slob. You have said everything that needs to be said in your post and we all confirm it. All that’s left to do is send your roommate a link to this thread. There, all done :).</p>
<p>Dear gibson101’s roommate,
Take a shower and brush your teeth every day. Empty out your friggen trash. Wash your clothes every week (preferably after they’ve all been worn once) so you don’t smell like sweat and mildew. I have had to be around people like you… They ask if anyone else smells cat p¡ss, but no one has the heart to tell them the smell is emanating from their NASTY CLOTHES. After you do all of that, everyone will like you a lot more :).</p>
<p>so this morning i finally had the nerve to ask my room mate if he’s washed his sheets, and he just said ahhmmm (yes). I know he’s lying, not once have i seen him do laundry here at school and i know he doesn’t have any detergent. He just said that he takes them home and does them. Which is another lie!!! Because every time he goes home his sheets are always still there. So i just approached my r.a. with the problem and he said that there’s nothing that can be done because its his space and personal choice. But then i said what about our room mate contracts? Because in our room mate contract i stated to maintain good personal hygiene, and the r.a. said that doesn’t really dictate to wash your sheets. So I’m screwed!!! My room mate won’t wash his damn sheets!!! And there’s nothing i can do about it!!! ***!!!</p>
<p>Sadly, there’s probably nothing that you can do except either wash your roommate’s sheets or get a better roommate next year.</p>
<p>S’s freshman year roommate was an athlete who dumped his sweaty clothes in the middle of the room and left the piles there weeks on end. As is the case with your room, S’s room stunk. </p>
<p>S had to use air freshner. Roommate refused to change. S ended up handling things by using the room only for sleeping (Roommate also would bring in drunk girls to have sex with while S was trying to sleep!) and chose really good roommates for his other years in college.</p>
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As someone who works with Residential Life people more than most students, this popped out at me. Your RA isn’t supposed to just say, “That’s not my problem.” These departments usually don’t even entertain the notion of people having “personal space” to any meaningful extent, and he’s telling you that your roommate has some kind of right to be sovereign and smelly. I dealt with a similar issue, but it was handled quickly (but I can still empathize, a lot).</p>
<p>I creepily read your last few posts (I’ve got too much free time right now!), and I see that you go to UNCG, so I looked at your housing policies.
<a href=“http://hrl.uncg.edu/docs/2009-2010%20Policies.pdf[/url]”>http://hrl.uncg.edu/docs/2009-2010%20Policies.pdf</a>
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<p>I don’t know… it looks to me like something can be done.</p>
<p>Here is the perfect solution. I call it “The Manhattan Project”.</p>
<p>1) Clean the room yourself. The entire room; his stuff too. Yes, the sheets.</p>
<p>2) Slob comes back. He observes the effort you put into cleaning. </p>
<p>He then:</p>
<p>3A) Is more respectful in the future and maintains your standards (Solved), or…</p>
<p>3B) Ignores the effort and goes back to his pathetic cheeze-doodle existance, continue to 4</p>
<p>4) Have his computer encounter an accident. Sabotage.</p>
<p>lead by example</p>
<p>and speak out, tell him </p>
<p>or you’ll regret it</p>
<p>If he’s a male, which I assume, try to get a girl to come in the room.</p>
<p>Set it up so she knows what to expect, knows what you want to happen, and try to get the point across to your roommate by getting the girl to say things aloud, but casually. If he’s not a bender, he should get a clue, get embarrassed, and clean up.</p>
<p>Can’t really impress too many ladies by being a complete pig.</p>
<p>im kinda digging that suggestion psycho</p>