<p>I love how this thread keeps getting bumped.</p>
<p>The first month of college, my roomate comes into my room all the time without knocking, wanting to talk (at me, not with me). She talks, talks, talks, talks, talks, talks, and talks all the time. Then, when I lock the door from the inside so that I can have some privacy, she gets upset!</p>
<p>I’m sorry honey, but no one talks as much as you do. It’s like having an hyper-active puppy gnawing at your leg every day. Give me some space.</p>
<p>Truthfully it really annoys me when people complain about their roommates being in the room all the time. I’m usually in my room after class and i dont see the problem…it’s MY room too. I notice sometimes when i get back from class my roommate gives me a look…ok chicka you’re just on fb or tumblr…idgaf, i want to relax in my room and i don’t care if you dont want me here or not. Sometimes u just dont wanna leave your room and you shouldnt have too. I don’t ‘have to’ find something to do…get over it i’m here and i’m not leaving. Thus i have applied for a single for next year…i’m done having a roommate…if i want to spend all day in my room eating i will…if i want to go out until 3am and not have to creep in, i will. Hopefully i get the single since spaces are so limited. <em>fingers crossed</em></p>
<p>Mine just plays video games all day, and is a huge elitist about it… my friends and I play League of Legends like 2 games a day and if we play with him he just gets mad at us.</p>
<p>He also likes calling people “butthurt” if someone complains. Its really ****ing annoying.</p>
<p>League of Legends + elitist = ???</p>
<p>Update on roommate…she’s just got a boyfriend…and now he’s here all the time… please ■■■■ of our room…please and thank you:) I hope and pray for a single room next year…So i won’t have to deal…mwarrrr why are you so nice???It makes it hard to dislike you…</p>
<p>My roommate is so messy. NO not messy. DIRTY. DISGUSTINGLY DIRTY. Over the weekend, there were some eggs sitting our on her desk. Just sitting there in a Walmert bag. We don’t have a refrigerator. So I thought I’d give it until Sunday night and see if she used them then, and if not, confront her about it. Well come, like 9 o’clock Sunday night, eggs are still sitting there, so I confronted her about it, and she was like “I thought you could keep them out for a week!” like ***? Who thinks you can leave eggs out of a fridge for a freaking week? So she went and put them in the fridge downstairs…</p>
<p>but there’s also this plastic bag, filled with loose flour, an open bag of rice cakes and some other food sitting on the floor. The main dining hall is below our dorm, and there’s a big problem with mice, and you can’t just leave a open bag of rice cake sitting on the floor! A few weeks ago, we had a floor meeting, and the RA warned us (for like the 5th time) about mice and keeping food off the ground and in closed containers. and after the meeting, my roommate was like “There’s really mice? I thought the RA was just making that up, or they were just squirrels” and I was like … um… yeah… there’s mice, we live right above where they keep all the food. </p>
<p>And she also leaves apple cores and bottles of milk out. Today I threw out a bottle of milk that was lumpy and disgusting and rotten. And she also leaves out bloody q-tips and q-tips with some gross goo on them, and used tissues and garbage out everywhere. and her clothes are always all over the floor and I am so sick of living in this gross pigsty. It’s so gross. Can’t wait to move out in May. CLEAN UP YOUR **** NOW PLEASE. It’s disgusting. </p>
<p>also she is always complaining about how cold it is and turns on the heat and the room gets stifling hot, but then she goes to be wearing nothing but a little t-shirt and uses this thin little blanket. I even offered to let her use one of my blankets, because I have extra, and she gave me **** ******** excuse about she likes to be cold in the morning so she can get out of bed more easily… ***? then why does she always turn on the heat when she first wakes up?</p>
<p>also she is always in the room, which isn’t really a valid complaint, because it’s her room and she has the right to be here, but all she does is sit on her butt and watch TV shows on her computer, even on the weekends. get out and do something fun!</p>
<p>also she turns her alarm on on weekend morning for like 8:30, but lets it play over and over, until I usually get up and turn it off- and she doesn’t even get out of bed! and sometimes she just lies there awake, listening to the alarm! and she never ever gets out of bed when it goes off, so why set it anyways?</p>
<p>well… that felt good. nice to get that off my chest… can’t wait to move out of here in a few months.</p>
<p>My roommate left a used pad rolled up on the counter what the hell? That is a new disgusting low</p>
<p>my roommate’s alarm clock wakes me up at 5:00 AM. Terrible thing is he’s used to the melody, and just sleeps through it. I have to knock on his freaking door every 10 minutes because he keeps hitting the damn snooze.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I just want to barge in there and b* slap him.</p>
<p>My roommate NEVER lifts the toilet seat up and he is the most anti-social person I know.</p>
<p>I haven’t read all of the comments, but just realize that college isn’t like high school anymore where your perception of reality is a scaled down sample of maybe 300-500 kids you’ve known all your life. There’s people of every spectrum/personality at college.</p>
<p>Some people are messy, some people are shy, some are anti-social, some are nice, some are “weird”…</p>
<p>Aww all those scrambling for singles next year…roommates aren’t impossible if you have similar lifestyles! Granted, that can be hard to find, but you’ll save money on housing. Some of these roommates sound horrible though.</p>
<p>what’s the point of turning on all the lights roomie? Every time I come home, you guys are chilling in your rooms with every freaking light in the living room and kitchen turned on. And you wonder why our utility bill is so freaking ridiculous. open your eyes!!</p>
<p>I don’t have much issue with my roommate normally but sometimes she aggravates me.</p>
<p>In the morning, for example, she has a tendency to slam the main door, cabinet doors, the microwave door, etc. Sometimes I don’t wake up but the times I do it’s very difficult for me to go back to sleep until she leaves.</p>
<p>Sometimes she talks on the phone for hours at night. I can hear her over my fan which is irritating. However, I guess I’ve done it to her some too but with the corded phone I can’t exactly bring it into the hallway, but if someone calls my cellphone and she’s sleeping, I’ll go into the study lounge.</p>
<p>Another issue with phones is her obnoxious boyfriend will sometimes call the dorm phone instead of her cell phone at like 6am. It’s like she’s not awake at that time anyway dude. If she doesn’t answer her phone, or it’s off, then don’t call me and wake me up just to tell me some insipid message like, “tell <name> I called.” I know that technically that number is both of ours, but the phone belongs to me and is on my side of the damn room, not hers. So you know who answers and gets woken up by these idiotic calls? Me. I’m sure whatever it is can wait most the time and like I said she doesn’t get up that damn early anyway.</name></p>
<p>Oh and after winter break, she tried to complain about my fan. I can’t help but use it every night. For one, it helps block out the sound of her slamming junk on mornings she feels like doing so, and two I am incredibly hot natured and burning up 90% of the time in this dorm. Hell, I even walk to class in capris and shorts in 40 degree weather and feel like I’m in a sauna in those buildings. The fan is not blowing on her so I don’t see the issue. She claims it “bothers her allegries” which is funny considering it didn’t in the fall. Sounds like ******** to me. Luckily, she seems to have stopped complaining about it finally. I think she realized I wasn’t going to turn it off.</p>
<p>She also has a habit of mooching plates, spoons, forks, and trash bags off of me, and on rare occasions drinks. I probably won’t ever gripe about that though as it’s my own fault for saying it was okay to begin with and she does take me to Walmart sometimes when she goes.</p>
<p>He needs to make friends his own age and stop inviting high schoolers over to our dorm.</p>
<p>He fails to do laundry properly. He does all his laundry, brings it back to the room, and pours his laundry basket into his cabinet-thing and then struggles to get the door shut. Then he takes whatever’s on top, wears it the next day, and throws his dirty laundry on top of his clean laundry. Thanks to him, our room smells like ass. </p>
<p>He disassembles EVERY pen he ever receives and plays with the parts. We have ink tubes, caps, and pen tips all over his desk and in random places on our floor. If you cleaned up your pens it’d be one thing but this is annoying.</p>
<p>He never washes his sheets. He has a massive brown stain on his sheets where he sleeps and when he pulls back the comforters, it smells awful.</p>
<p>His phone does something weird sometimes where it goes “beep beep” every 30 seconds. It never fails to start happening right when he falls asleep. I lay on the top bunk getting really annoyed with the beeping and do everything I can do to implicitely wake him up so he’ll notice… but he never wakes up.</p>
<p>His PC computer monitor lights up every time he gets a game request. It happens at night all the time and it lights up the entire wall that I sleep by and it drives me crazy. He blatently refuses to turn his computer off at night even though I’ve told him numerous times how annoying this is. I put a blanket over his monitor one night to block the light and he got really mad at me.</p>
<p>I hardly ever go out, but if I do and come back drunk, he gets mad because A. he wishes he had friends to go out with and B. he doesn’t want me stumbling and vomiting in the room. Which has NEVER happened and never will.</p>
<p>He leaves his KY Lube bottle out in the middle of the floor when he’s done masturbating and sometimes doesn’t clean up at all. Coming back with a friend to find the bottle and/or semen in the middle of the floor is always really awkward for me.</p>
<p>This semester just needs to be over.</p>
<p>^Officially the worst roommate ever, he even beats that girl from the Roommate–y’know the serial killer/stalker chick.</p>
<p>Bump!
Finally! A place where I can rant about my roommate experiences!</p>
<p>I decided to go potluck this year for a roommate, and once I found out who my roommate was, we texted back and forth, seemed to have quite a bit in common, and I really did think it was going to work out - turns out NOT.</p>
<p>When the semester first started, she started complaining to her friends (on the other side of campus) about how much her dorm sucks and how her roommate (me) sucked - it started the day after moving in, and she didn’t even know me.</p>
<p>She basically shunned me and everybody on the floor because we apparently did not live up to her “standards” of friends and would pack up her backpack with clothes and stay in her friend’s dorm for the entire week. After finally getting into a fight with one of the friends, she started staying in her dorm more often.</p>
<p>I know that some people feel like they know material enough not to go to class, but when it’s a rigorous five credit hour science class that is a HUGE part of your major, probably a good idea you should go. She stopped going to the class after a couple of weeks. I am taking the class now and learned that over one hundred points are for participation (going to class) and one hundred fifty points are for quizzes (which she never took because she never went to class).</p>
<p>She also had disgusting habits - she would leave bowls of food out for days, and what really got to me was that BOTH roommates were supposed to clean up before leaving the dorm for break, and she left her disgusting mess for me to clean up - she left all of her food in the fridge, left empty pistachio shells around her bed and on the floor, had half-drinken cups of soda in random places, and to top it off, left a half eaten sandwich in the trash can for who knows how long, which promptly fell onto the floor as I was dumping out the trash and had to pick up with a paper towel.</p>
<p>She asked if she could have a friend stay over for a couple of nights (who happened to be a guy) from her high school, and I felt like I could not be in the room - they were sleeping in the same bed so I assumed it was something more than friends ._. When I came back from my 8 AM class on Friday, the room was trashed - clothes on the floor, empty food wrappers, half-eaten bowls of beans - ***?? And two empty bottles of vodka, one of which had been spilled on the floor. Weeks later, I found out that she had cleaned it up with paper towels and shoved the dirty paper towels into a cup and hid it in our room - I can understand she didn’t want to get caught for having alcohol in the room, but it’s still gross.</p>
<p>She would skype constantly in the room, mostly conversations I would rather not hear. After a couple of days of being here, she was skyping her friend and this is what went on:
friend: so tell me about this guy you met last night
roommate: oh I think he might like me, but I don’t know if it’s going to work (types in something because I am in the room for a minute that she doesn’t want me to know)
friend: oh my gosh, really? I haven’t done it in soooo long! Did you get his number?</p>
<p>Other awkward conversations also took place. It got to the point of where I would stay at my boyfriend’s dorm (he has a single) half of the the time because I just couldn’t stand being there. She transferred to a community college this semester and didn’t bother telling me or anybody else that she wasn’t coming back - I came in one day and her stuff was gone.</p>
<p>To conclude, I have a double room to myself, and by the looks of things, it’s going to stay that way, and I am absolutely loving it.</p>
<p>Roommates can be hard to deal with at any age and in any situation. Even sharing a house, with your own room, while going to school can be hard with a really irritating roommate. It just seems like people don’t have a clue that their behavior is inappropriate or unthoughtful. Maybe the fact is that they just don’t care.</p>
<p>I had one housemate that would come home drunk on a regular basis and play with his dog in the hallway of the house. All of the bedrooms opened up into the hallway, there were four of us living there. He would get his puppy all riled up and excited at like 2 or 3 am. They would wrestle around, he would throw balls for the dog to run and catch, down the hall. So basically there is barking, talking, banging around, and a general ruckus after the rest of us have all gone to sleep. We all needed to get up in the morning for class or work.</p>
<p>The best is when those roommates bring friends over for extended stays. At one pint we had 3 extra people living in the living room with all of their dogs. That made 7 people and 5 dogs in one house. Talk about noisy, and messy. I moved into a tiny garage apartment by myself after that.</p>
<p>You would think that if you want to have a good relationship with your roommate or housemate that you need to be a good roommate yourself. Although that is a good start it is not always going to work out. No matter how nice you might be, there are always going to be people that are just completely clueless. And you will also run into those people that want to make other individuals miserable. </p>
<p>Life in college, sharing a room is just too much sometimes. Coming together in a small room with a stranger is so completely weird. It is really annoying when that roommate just left home and is used to mommy and daddy doing everything for them. they never figured out the simple joy of picking their crap up off the floor or how nice it is when there is no sweet drinks and molding food left around for pests to enjoy.</p>
<p>With college you also get the problem of those kids that never did anything because their parents were right on top of all their activities, and now, they are on the loose acting like crazy people and making up for all that lost party time. Single rooms should be mandatory.</p>
<p>^I agree completely. It gets really weird when you’re put together with your roommate randomly. A lot of schools uses quizzes or simple things like “Rate how clean your room is now” questions. </p>
<p>I had a random roommate who…gosh. All of my suitemates had originally been as thick as thieves. We did practically everything together, getting dinner, watching marathons of teen dramas, playing pool (terribly), imitation raves in the TV room when no one was around, etc., etc. But when you compound living in a room that’s only big enough for one person (seriously, the beds were bunked and it was impossible to unbunk them because there wasn’t enough floor space), clashes in personality and living habits, stress and everything that comes with being in college, it’s just a mess.</p>
<p>My roommate was a slob (which says a lot coming from me!). Her hair shed constantly and she refused to pick up with balls of hair that collected on the floor that obviously wasn’t mine. I’m black, she’s white so I know who’s hair belongs to whom. She did laundry twice in the course of one semester (like, ew!). She complained to everyone behind my back about how I “hogged” the mini-fridge even though I paid for it, thus it is mine, that I took the good bed, good side of the closet and the top three drawers (damn straight! I got there three days before she did and got first dibs. That’s life. Plus, the top bunk terrifies me, so you can bet your sweet arse I was getting the bottom). When I told my suitemates I was transferring because I was switching majors (when in reality, it was because of money changes at home and me needing to get out of that nightmare school STAT), she blabbed to people all over the dorm how happy she was her roommate was leaving. I’d meet people in the study room and they’d go, “Oh, you’re [Satan’s] roommate that’s transferring, right? Yeah, [Lucifer] talks about you a lot.”</p>
<p>She also got uber ****ed I wouldn’t let one of her friends stay the night because she made a habit out of bringing people over A. without asking me (despite the roommate agreement) B. being a drunken mess on the weekends and C. just annoying the crap out of me. I had a test that Monday and told her politely I wasn’t comfortable with that because I wanted to get work done (the library was far and the weather was terrible that weekend) and had to be up early to work. She got passive aggressive on FB and talked mad crap about me behind my back to everyone and when word finally got back to me, I wanted to kill her. She had been acting hissy for that week because I’d told her no about her friend, basically blamed me for making her sleep in someone else’s dorm which put that person out of a bed all because her friend was too cheap to stay in the half dozen motels in town and slammed doors constantly. She did it one time too many and we got into it BIG time and barely spoke until the end of the semester.</p>
<p>Then, I left and heard about her still complaining about me after I was gone. What a nightmare, she was.
She also made some fairly racist comments about me. In the first two weeks (when -ish started to hit the fan for real), she tells me that when she saw me on fb and saw I was black and the high school I went to, she got super worried that I’d be “really, really ghetto”. Are you kidding me? I swear this girl is a moron.</p>
<p>BUT, a new girl replaced me in the room and they get along swimmingly. Apparently, there was a conversation about the new girl thinking she had been sexually assaulted from the bits and pieces she remembered from being black-out drunk at a frat house and [Satan] basically high-fived her for getting laid. ***, man? What kind of person does that?</p>
<p>Thank GOD I’m commuting this semester. That really turned me off the idea of every dorming again. If I have to have a roommate (housemate) at some point in the future, it has got to be with someone I know.</p>