<p>I don’t have a roommate (anymore). ;)</p>
<p>My roommates annoy the hell out of me. One has this annoying voice, the other is annoying midget who needs to be squashed, and the other just annoys me just because. I can’t wait until I don’t have to see their faces anymore.</p>
<p>My roommate never goes out of the room. EVERRRRR. (Well, she does crawl out for like half and hour to eat at the cafeteria three times a day. That’s it. Seriously.) Admittedly, I used to be the one who was the hermit, but I’ve changed. I realized how people hate a roommate who doesn’t leave the room. Well, it’s biting me back now. For some reason, now my roommate just refuses to do anything but sit on her ass and go on Facebook all mother*<strong><em>ing day. Also, she always laughs out loud, and by laugh, I mean she emits some horrific, stifled giggle sound. When she’s not laughing, she’s coughing. When she’s not coughing, she’s sniffling. When she’s not sniffling, she’s chewing her nails (and the sound of her saliva sloshing around is ridiculously loud). Someone kill me now. I mean, I usually get out of the room really early in the morning, then I come back at around 1 AM only to find my roommate in the same exact spot. Give me some privacy! ;__; Ugh. Anyway, she sits there until 3 AM. She takes a nap every day, so that’s why she always stays up abnormally late. Stupid </em></strong>. I can’t even sleep until she does because she’s always making some sort of obnoxious bodily noise. She isn’t even productively using her time; I swear, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any page open on her laptop other than Facebook or Tumblr. So basically, I sleep according to her schedule, but then I have to wake up early (as opposed to her, who never even goes to class). Hooray. Then the cycle repeats the next day.</p>
<p>Yep, I’m getting a single next year.</p>
<p>@ Mintymint,</p>
<p>My roommate is almost the same way. He goes to class, but whenever he is not in class he just sits there. He goes to get something to eat, but always brings it back to the dorm, and he is the most disgusting eater EVER. I can hear all the slurps and stuff and its plain gross. He doesn’t even bother going to the rec center anymore so he just sits there and his stomach has gotten progressively bigger the last 2 months. It really sucks now cus i have the flu and alone time is my best friend.</p>
<p>Unrelated, but it bugs me so much about how he treats his mom. She comes to pick him up almost every weekend, and he is so mean to her. Its ridiculous. He shows her no respect and treats her like his servant. His mom has been separated from his dad for ages. They aren’t very well off either, so she works her butt off to pay for him to go this 30k a year private school. And when she gets here he takes forever to get all his stuff together because every 30 seconds he gets a text msg from his girlfriend, so he stops everything he’s doing at that moment and takes a minute to respond. Repeat 15 times. All the while his mom is trying to talk to him and he’s just giving her ****. </p>
<p>He actually called her last night, (In a soft, high pitched whiny muttering) “Hi mom, fine, nothing, you NEED to get here early tomorrow because i told Paige (girlfriend) i’d pick her up at 5, okaaaay mom. bye” Literally thats how it went. It ****es me off so much. I was going to call him out on it but i have the flu and feel like crap so i didn’t want to overdo it.</p>
<p>My roommates bf comes into our room drunk ever between 4-5am. He is so disrespectful. My roommate and I have been close friends for a few years. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I don’t get why so many people complaining about your roommate always being in the room…I mean, they ARE paying half the rent. Just sayin’</p>
<p>Pretty long story. Please feel sorry for me?</p>
<p>So over the summer we got our roommate assignments. I e-mailed my roommate, but got no response. Then a couple weeks later, I got a Facebook friend request and message from someone. It said, “hey, i think we’re roommates…” I checked the roommate assignment again. It had changed.</p>
<p>Roommate Count: 2</p>
<p>We talked over facebook a bit over the summer - just like who brings what and whatnot. He basically said he had everything, except a fridge, so I volunteered to bring that.
We moved in and it was working out pretty well. His parents bought a lamp and rug for the room, I offered to pay, but my roommate wouldn’t let me. Cool, right?
I’m OOS so coming here, I knew absolutely no one. My roommate just hung out with all his high school friends all the time but never invited me. That’s alright, though because I really didn’t relate to them too much anyways. Throughout the quarter he was always gone on weekends partying or going home, but that was alright because it meant I had the room to myself for a bit. I thought he was kind of a bad roommate because he liked to keep the window open…in the middle of winter. He also had ESPN on all the time. All. the. time. While we weren’t friends, I have to say we did at least get along as roommates and had a mutual respect for each other.
Then, over winter break, I got a text from him basically saying “i’m moving into a frat next quarter, nice meeting you.” I wasn’t really sure what to think. I got back and half the room was empty. (I was kinda ****ed because now I lost the rug, lamp, microwave, and TV. Oh well.) After a day without a roommate, I got an e-mail from someone who said, “Hey I was supposed to be your roommate but financial aid didn’t work out. Enjoy the room.”</p>
<p>Roommate Count: 3</p>
<p>“Cool,” I thought. A room to myself. But after talking with the RA for a bit he said, “Yeah, they’re moving someone else into your room.”</p>
<p>Roommate Count: 4</p>
<p>A couple days into the quarter, a friend walked by my room and said my new roommate was moving in. I came in later in the night and we introduced each other. He’s a football player. I’m a pretty tolerant person, so I tried my best to get along with him. It seemed to be going alright for the first week or two, but then he brought a TV into the room. Two nights in a row it woke me up in the middle of the night because he left it on even after going to bed. I asked him if he could try being a bit more courteous about it and he said sure. Two more nights it woke me up. I got a bit more serious this time and suggested he use a timer or something. He said “maybe.” I don’t think I was being out of line either - I just asked him to turn the volume off at midnight, but he could still leave it on. Turns out, he “needs the TV on or he can’t fall asleep.” Uh huh. Show me a doctors note. Well after talking with him twice, I came up the elevator to our lounge. My friends told me that they just overheard my roommate talking with the RA, and he was basically complaining that I was complaining about the TV! You read that right. So I talked to the RA about it the next day and he said “he was fully aware of our situation” and that if it happened again (after five incidents already) to let him know. I knew it would happen again. The TV woke me up in the middle of the night. So I talked to the RA and we scheduled a meeting to fill out a roommate agreement. (Two more incidents before we got to fill out the agreement.) I was very careful when filling the agreement out with him. Fortunately, he didn’t care at all about it and just went with whatever I said. Two days later, we had the TV problem AGAIN AND he had someone spend the night. (In the agreement, we stipulated that the TV would be off by midnight, and that if he was going to have a guest spend the night, would ask my permission and give me some notice first.) I let it slide a bit since I didn’t even see him for the next day or two. A couple days later, he had a different friend spend the night and yes, the TV was left on again. I went to sleep in the lounge because I couldn’t fall asleep after two hours laying in bed. The next day, I told my RA about it and he said I could schedule a meeting with him or the RD so the three of us (RA/RD, me, and roommate) could talk about the situation. That same night, I walked in and the TV was left on while my roommate and his friend were asleep. I went straight to the RA. He kicked the friend out. So I talked to the RD by myself the next day and she said we’d schedule an appointment for us all to talk. I got an e-mail from the RA a couple days ago saying that we needed to reply, letting them know 3 times next week that we’re free to meet and talk about this. I replied for myself, and the RA asked if those times worked for my roommate as well. I said no, that I thought we would each send our own reply e-mail. The RA told me to ask the roommate for times that would work. So I asked him and he didn’t tell me anything by the time we needed to tell the RA. So, that’s where I stand now after a month and a half with this trip-up (note: he’s here on a full-ride scholarship too…). Since the RA kicked the friend out, my roommate won’t say a single word to me. At all. However, the first night after his friend got kicked out, he brought in 6 of his football friends while I was working on homework. I said hey, but then just ignored them while working on homework. I think they were trying to scare me or something because they kept saying (to each other), “Hey where can I sleep?” “I ain’t sleeping in the closet.” etc. Whatever.</p>
<p>Aside from that and the whole leaving the TV on while sleeping thing, other things he does that **** me off:
- Play loud music. Also, playing music whilst having the TV on.
- Leave the window open. I don’t mind if it’s cracked open to get some fresh air in, but really? Does it need to be open all the way when it’s 35 degrees outside?
- Talk on the phone. It’s not really that I mind it so much, it’s that I get to involuntarily listen to the entire conversation.
- He came back drunk one time at 2:30 am, then went to the bathroom. We live right across from the bathroom, so I overheard him have an entire conversation with someone. At various points through the conversation:
“My roommate is square. He goes to the library and studies then comes back at like 11.” Okay, fyi, I take my stuff out of the room to get away from you and have fun in my friends room until 11.
Other person: “You know what they do for fun here? They do jigsaw puzzles. On Friday nights.” Yeah, sorry…Last time I checked, I didn’t think getting drunk on a Friday night was very much fun either. - My name is now “bro”, apparently. Whatever. Also, he uses expletives. Way too much. I don’t mind hearing them every now and then, but I don’t think it’s necessary to use all seven in a single sentence. Oh yeah, so he’s African-American. Not an issue at all. Except he uses the “N word” all the time. All. the. time. Does he just not get it? I even find it offensive!
- Whenever he comes back from visiting family on Sunday night, they’re all in my room for like 30 minutes. Not much of an issue, except for the 3 year old climbing all over my stuff. No.
- Oh yeah, almost forgot this part…So two days after he moved into the room, he asked me if I wanted to move out into another dorm, “so all the football players could be closer to the practices.” I said no, then he kept trying to convince me that the other dorm would be closer to my classes, friends, etc, etc. Oh, please. The poor football players can’t walk to practice?</p>
<p>So, yeah…good luck topping that? No lies in there, btw.</p>
<p>^Psh. Welcome to dorm life. Your list of points are just mild annoyances and you’re definitely overreacting. Just turn the damn TV off and get on with your life, bro. Seriously, you think that it’s so awful that he talks on the phone in your room, plays music, and curses too much? You’d have an issue with 90% of college students, most likely!</p>
<p>I feel like that situation is less about how bad of a roommate he is and more about how you can’t get along with someone in the same space. You’re going to have to make compromises. It won’t be the way you want it probably a lot of the time. Read some of the other stories in this thread and yours just makes you sound whiny. Or how about, my roommate tried to commit suicide. What did yours do? He left the TV on. Okay, dude.</p>
<p>My roommate is completely inconsiderate.</p>
<p>She never lets me get any sleep. At all. She’ll always stay up until obscene hours of the morning, come back, barreling through the door like a battering ram, and wakes me up. Then, she’ll lay down and read her book with her obnoxiously bright light on.</p>
<p>Now, if it was just those few things, I probably wouldn’t be as PO with her, but it gets a lot worse…</p>
<p>She has a song alarm on her cell phone that she sets everyday. And I mean everyday. On the weekdays, she sets it to ring 15 minutes before the hour she needs to get up. But, because she stays up all night, she doesn’t wake up to it. So it rings. And rings. And rings. And rings. </p>
<p>And I wake up instead. And of course, it’s under her pillow or her covers, so I can’t just grab the damn thing without moving her. My only choice is to wake her up, at which point she gives me a death glare and acts like she wants to murder me.</p>
<p>Then there’s the weekend. The days I’m supposed to be able to sleep in, right? Oh no. Roommate sets her alarm on the weekend too, so she can “be productive,” aka, wake up, brush teeth, use bathroom…and lay right back down again with a book. She doesn’t actually go anywhere. But, of course, since her alarm rings every five minutes for an hour typically, I am unable to go back to sleep.</p>
<p>Okay, maybe I can get over the alarm thing. But, there are a few things I cannot get over. Twice in our time of living together, she has used my printer while I’m asleep. And I don’t mean at 11:00. I mean at like…2:00 AM when both of us have to get at 7:00 for classes the next morning. </p>
<p>One of those times, I had an exam at 9:00 the next morning. And then she did it the second time again last week, after I specifically told her not to. I’m determined that if she ever does it again, I will remove the USB cable from the printer and hide it until the next morning. And the thing that annoys me most of all? She would’ve had plenty of time to do it in the morning in both cases.</p>
<p>Then there’s the microwave. Two weeks ago, Rommate got up at 9:00 on a Sunday morning, bumbled around in our room, turned on the TV to watch a DVD, and then used the microwave…while I was trying to sleep. </p>
<p>I have repeatedly asked her nicely to keep it down, and all I’ve gotten is a completely blank look and an “Uh…sorry?” And then she goes right back to doing the same things. Maybe I would understand more if I was loud and inconsiderate…except I’m not. I try my hardest to stay quiet while she’s sleeping. She almost never wakes up when I’m getting ready. I always wake up and get up when she gets up. I don’t have a choice. She’s too loud.</p>
<p>So, this semester, I am currently suffering from a severe lack of sleep. Most of the time, I can barely stay awake in my classes. It’s getting really terrible. I can’t wait until Spring break. I can finally catch up on sleep. -sighs-</p>
<p>I know you guys have many, many, many worse problems than this, but my roommate has become a constant irritant to me, and it’s just really wearing my nerves thin at this point. </p>
<p>On a note unrelated to sleep, I’m also really annoyed at the “sharing the water” thing. She decided it would be cool if we could switch off buying water bottles, and I thought, “Why not?” We can share, right? </p>
<p>Except we apparently can’t because she deems it “fair” to drink 2/3rds of the water. And if I split the bottles into halves, when she runs out, she just steals my half. So I’m about to cut off that practice because I’m not paying for her to drink water. I have better places to spend money. </p>
<p>These aren’t huge things, I know, but all this (and a lot more, let me tell you) just add up to one big annoyance that is negatively impacting my daily life. I seriously can’t wait to get away from Roommate. My nerves are just frayed by this point.</p>
<p>and I was looking forward to having a roommate next year… Lol</p>
<p>Yeah, the whole sleep thing gets to you eventually. Seems pretty minor, but you get really irritated and you start thinking of ways to **** off your roommates… not exactly the most productive use of time. </p>
<p>I average around four hours of sleep per night because of those f tards.</p>
<p>Man, some of your roommates make my old roommate sound like a saint.</p>
<p>For the most part, my roommates are absolutely fine - our schedules/sleep schedules work well, we get along, have similar partying/work ethics, etc. However, my biggest fear about living in a triple seems to be coming true. I play soccer, so the two of them are a lot closer to each other than they are to me, because I didn’t have as much time in the fall. However it’s a little exasperating at times - whereas I went out of my way in the fall to get to know them and spend time with them (despite a varsity sport, part-time job, and lots of work), it’s irritating since they more or less don’t ever try to include me in their plans. I feel like I’m invisible in my own room. Whenever the three of us are in there together, they only talk to each other, and if I ask a question, it’s largely ignored. They also occasionally eat my food and drink my liquor. I don’t mind sharing, but I wish they would ask me first. I’m tired of being the only one who takes the initiative to buy alcohol, then getting home from my Saturday night work shift to find that - surprise! - my entire, brand new handle is gone because they invited our friends to come drink it, even though I bought the alcohol and had been hoping to, I don’t know, actually be able to have some of it. I get off work at 8 PM and I definitely like to go out on afterwards. Is it so difficult for them to wait until after 8 - or at least ask me - before they invite people over to drink the handle that I bought?</p>
<p>I feel a little bit better because most of my friends notice the same things, and I’ve actually had people ask me whether it was “hard living with two people who think they’re the same person and don’t include me in anything.” Also, one of them is so freaking passive aggressive - I can’t ever tell if she’s mad at me because she doesn’t tell me. The first time the alcohol thing happened, I was angry and I told my friend about it. The next morning, when I asked my roommate how she was, she said “fine” in this lofty voice that clearly said she wasn’t fine, but wouldn’t tell me why. I find out - five days later - that she’s mad at me because I talked to my friend about the issue. Even though she was drunk at the time, so it’s not like I could talk to her about it. She told everyone on our floor that she was mad at me, but fortunately, they’re a lot closer friends to me than they are to my roommates (who are universally known as being cliquey), so most of them told me she was mad. Why couldn’t she tell me herself? Gah.</p>
<p>This is pretty trivial compared to some of the other roommate stories, and for the most part, I have lucked out considerably with the roommate situation. I think I’m friendly and fun to hang around, and I have plenty of other friends to hang out with - whereas my roommates really only hang out with each other and two other girls on our floor. Everyone else is fairly sympathetic when I even mention who my roommates are, haha. So I really shouldn’t complain, but I felt the need to rant a little because I really can’t take living in a room where my roommates tell each other everything and barely talk to me.</p>
<p>Anywho…I know most of you have legitimate issues, and this one is pretty petty in comparison. Just needed to get that off my chest and an anonymous college forum seemed like a decent place to do it (haha).</p>
<p>Roommate talks to his girlfriend on the phone from 10AM to 2AM</p>
<p>My roommate makes weird Asian food that makes the whole room smell gross.</p>
<p>My roommate opens the window (on his side of the room) when it is raining/cold/blizzardy conditions. Keeps it closed when its freaking hot. Idk if he is just trying to irritate me or if something is off with him. </p>
<p>Other day, i saw him acting like a cat after he woke up in the afternoon. Like, you know how a cat stretches its back? Yeah, like that…it was weird.</p>
<p>used to pee on the toilet seat, now doesnt…sometimes. </p>
<p>other than that, he is fine i suppose…</p>
<p>just saw this thread. My roommate is horrible. He is very antisocial and all he does is sit on the computer and play video games all day like World of Warcraft. (which does not help his weight issues, hes like 350 pounds) I swear to god that i am starting to know just as much about world of warcraft as he does just by the sheer fact that he plays it 24/7. I try and leave my dorm as much as possible, I used to try an invite him out also but he never wants to go anywhere. I remember the first day we moved in I had to move in by myself and his parents were helping him move in. I think because his parents saw mine wernt there they took the opportunity to like attack me with questions. “Do you drink, do you smoke, do you have a girlfriend?” They told me dont brings girls in the room to have sex with when there son is in the room ( which is always) and other things like that. IT WAS SO AWKWARD. i just met these people. This kid is also very judgmental because he always has something to say when i come home anytime after 12, like " smoking and drinking are we?". And its no like im waking him up, he says up all night playing ps3 or computer games. I really wish i lived with someone else. also he is 19 and i he talks this girl on the internet from his hometown who is like a freshman and is only 14 or 15. I told him thats really creep but he says i just dont understand. Ugh, just needed to get that off my chest. but if he keep saying crap to me everytime i come in late ima jus tell him to shut the **** up one day</p>
<p>Cheers to only 5 weeks left with these annoying people. (Well 5 weeks for me at least haha)</p>
<p>My roommate is fat, doesn’t shave (his beard is one of those gross-as-hell oily scraggly neck beards), does nothing but sit in bed reading manga all day, doesn’t exercise ever, and smells :(</p>
<p>last year my friends roommate was super fat (like 400 pounds) and all he did was play world of warcraft in the room. he was so fat that he failed to clean himself throroughly enough when he showered, so he smelled often. since he was so fat, he would get hot very easily, and leave the AC on at the lowest setting (like 30 degrees F) so our suite was a 24/7 human freezer. he always had the door to his room closed. every once in awhile we would turn off the AC and turn on the heater to get some relief. when we did that, this guy would close the vents to his room. so his room had no circulation and he smelled bad, which you can imagine was terrible for his roommate. i went inside their room one time and almost passed out from the fumes… you needed a gas mask to walk inside that place… i dont know how the other guy living in the room managed to survive without getting lung cancer or something</p>