Vaping indoors at all is nuts. Please don’t do that in the bathroom either. Take it outdoors away from doors.
A 50" TV in a dorm room is also nuts. Sorry, I am on board with your roomie and I think your mom is being far too kind.
I was with right up until the 50” tv. I assumed you were watching and playing on your lap top. That’s huge and I can well imagine it being incredibly annoying, even with the blanket wall.
I could be wrong, but do you think there’s the tiniest chance that the parents who (I assume) paid for the gargantuan tv, brought it to school and helped you install it and who then think that wearing headphones and vaping in the bathroom is you being too accommodating, might be the type to think you can do no wrong and that you should never have to compromise? If that’s the case, I’m sorry, but you’re now encountering that unpleasant reality known as the real world.
And for heaven’s sake, stop vaping! Nicotine is highly addictive and bad for your brain cells!
Your roommate is compromising his sleep so that you can do things that negatively impact BOTH of your chances of being successful in getting the main thing you are paying for: an education. Time to focus on the task at hand. Your roommate has been more than patient. Any chance your parent never tried to share a small dorm room?
OP is gone.
- You wearing Earphones - good compromise.
- No vaping in room - good compromise as you SHOULDN"T BE VAPING INDOORS
- Him not wearing eye mask…bad compromise. Tell him “I compromised and am wearing headphones witch is very reasonable…you wearing an eye mask is just as reasonable.”
When you “got up early this morning and watched TV”…how early was it? 7am? 10 am? Were you wearing the headphoens?
50" is fricking huge and even if he can’t see it, there is flickering light thrown at the wall.
If you have further issues, talk to your RA.
MODERATOR’S NOTE: Closing thread since OP disappeared on February 13.