<p>gosh, I don't care if you're a light sleeper, I should be able to work in my own room on my own homework if you want to. I'm not blasting music and there's an easy solution to having my study lamp on: pull the covers over you! I'm not even having the room light on, geez!</p>
<p>oh, and he keeps pulling the cooling devices from my laptop because the fan whirring annoys him. Even when he's not sleeping. I think he's overheated my laptop (for lengthy periods of time) for many times now. I don't know how much heat damage he's caused to my CPU. </p>
<p>Oh, and he tosses my plates and pots in the trash because he doesn't like the sight of them unwashed in my room. </p>
<p>Have you tried talking to him? Or trying to reach some sort of compromise?
e.g. “I’ll only study for x-time period so I don’t keep you up, but please don’t do --whatever he’s doing that’s irritating–.”</p>
to be fair I fixed that for you… I know I’m not cool if my girlfriend leaves a bunch of unwashed dished in our kitchen, let alone if it were in a single bedroom we were sharing together.</p>
<p>In all honesty you sound like the annoying roommate with your extra laptop fans and late-night studying. Can’t you go to a library or something?</p>
<p>I get pretty pis.sed when people leave unwashed dishes in the sink too…why not just wash them after you finish eating? Also, how late are you staying up at night? If you have your lights on at 3am when he’s trying to get some sleep, I don’t really blame him for being a little annoyed.</p>
<p>A little tolerance on both sides would be nice, really. Why don’t you try washing the dishes, and tell him (nicely) to buy a pair of earplugs because you study best at night?</p>
<p>I agree that forcing you to turn off your desk lamp to get some sleep is a little ridiculous, but so is keeping dirty, smelly dishes lying around…or worse, lying in what I assume is your shared sink.</p>
<p>Take some time to cool off, then talk to him and reach some sort of compromise on both sides. You’re both adults. Act like it.</p>
<p>“gosh, I don’t care if you’re a light sleeper, I should be able to work in my own room on my own homework if you want to. I’m not blasting music and there’s an easy solution to having my study lamp on: pull the covers over you! I’m not even having the room light on, geez!”</p>
<p>Based on that paragraph, you are in the wrong and your roommate is in the right. You need to change your ways and change them quick.</p>
<p>And judging from some of the other “I hate my roommate/neighbor” posts on CC, it seems like people aren’t against taking revenge so um…maybe you should sleep with one eye open.</p>
<p>Why not turn your laptop off when you leave? It’s better for the computer and it avoids the noise and all the problems that go with it. </p>
<p>My roommate is a clean freak and we don’t have a sink in our room, so I put my dirty dishes in a box with a lid under my desk til I can go wash them. That way, we don’t have to see or smell them. Leaving unwashed dishes out is DISGUSTING and it attracts bugs. I don’t blame your roommate. </p>
<p>The light I agree he should not have a problem with, but what time are you studying at? If it’s like 3 AM and he has an 8 AM class then maybe you guys should work something out. Maybe there’s a study room or something?</p>
<p>Be thankful that that is the least of your problems.</p>
<p>You should be able to work in your room within reason, and so he should be able to sleep. Generally I’d say after your quiet hours if he’s sleeping, you should leave. It’s about being courteous. If it’s before, he should be understanding that you can use the room, but after you should kick it to the lounge or den.</p>
<p>And why do you need your laptop fan on all the time? If he is able to pull them out from your laptop, that means you’re not there, so there’s no reason for your laptop, and consequently fan, to be on. Turn it off when you’re not there. Problem solved.</p>
<p>Wash your dishes when you’re done with them. If they’re sitting there for more than a day or two, I’d be disgusted too. Just tell him you’ll do them at the end of each day, so don’t mess with them while you’re gone.</p>
<p>He sounds a little irrational, but so do you. You need to sit down with him and work it out because your problems aren’t that hard to solve if you’re both willing to give a little.</p>
<p>Get those suctioned feet that raises your laptop off the desk surface. May cool your laptop enough to limit the use of your annoying fan. Any smelly food in the room is gross, toss the refuse in the hall trash can. Your problems with your roommate are small don’t make them a bigger deal, it’s not worth it. Time for compromise.</p>
<p>I have a laptop cooler and a minifan. I also have an aerosol spray to maintain the vents and maintain maximum air flow. As you can see, running my laptop at very cool conditions is of utmost importance to me.</p>
<p>Why not encase it in a bubble or use it in a freezer? Gee, I don’t blame your roommate. Are you doing all this fan junk because you have an old computer or is it because you can’t properly handle a new one? Seriously, turn that stuff off unless you are doing intense gaming.</p>
<p>You still never answered the question that a few people posed. WHY is your laptop on when you’re not there? If you’re THAT concerned with maintaining it then turn the damn thing off when you leave. That way you can guarantee that there is no noise and it is cool.</p>
<p>I put it to sleep so I can call up my work quickly when I come back.</p>
<p>What my roommate does is unplugs all the accessories and this wakes up my laptop</p>
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<p>Obviously you’re not a science student where a single problem set ends up being a search for 800 different chemicals and chemical reactions across 80 firefox tabs.</p>