<p>my roommate is a slob when I’m a really neat person… show a little bit of respect for the person that you’re living with and try to be at least a little tidy, it’s the polite thing to do! anyway, she stays up until 4 every night and sleeps from 5-10 in the afternoon… every day, not kidding… and that’s on top of not having class until 12 or 12:30 every day. She has not once this semester gotten out of bed earlier than I have, and I am able to sleep in until 10 most days if I want! You would think that once or twice she would have stuff to do… also she has had her MOTHER spend the night (!!! ***) and once I came home in the middle of the afternoon and her mom was asleep in my room (in her bed but still, I mean, seriously???). and she has had her boyfriend stay over and sleep on the couch until like 3 in the afternoon, and he leaves the toilet seat up which is just SOO rude.</p>
<p>the other day I spent two hours cleaning the whole apartment - scrubbing the floors, dusting, vacuuming, putting literally EVERYTHING away and in its place - and she came back from being at home over the weekend and put tons of food out everywhere as well as throwing her laundry and all of her stuff everywhere. The place was a mess within 10 minutes and she didn’t tidy up at all. Then she woke me up when she went to bed at four in the morning. </p>
<p>She skips so many of her classes and all she does is sleep… the past few weeks she’s slept in until at least 2 EVERY DAY even though I know she has classes at 12 or 1… it’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Ugh, I really wish there were more singles available at my school, but I didn’t get one :(</p>
<p>Living in a four person suite is wonderful, sometimes. I initially chose it because I knew that because I’m not that social that being around more people would give me a higher chance of actually getting along with somebody. rant commence:
the **<strong><em>y business major - went to a high school near me, we have a bunch of friends in common, but i HATE her (having met her only in August). she goes on half-hour long “stories” of back in high school something super cool that barely relates to whatever we were just talking about. she thinks she’s so superior because she’s known what she wants to do with her life for her entire life. rarely helps us clean our room on weekends because she’s never here (and cause she’s used to having a hired house-cleaner at home). thinks that we really care about her stories, even though all our backs are turned, doors between us and her are shut (if possible) and i’m left alone in the common room (where my desk is) without any way to block her out except for headphones. acts super cool, even though she only spends four days a week living with us and goes home friday ~noon to monday ~noon to be with her boyfriend and pre-school aged brother. at least she’s transferring to a different school next year to be with her boyfriend. feels that she has a lot of life experience as well.
sorority girl - she’s actually not that bad, but makes interesting decisions. came in to college as a bio major, pre-med, realized she doesn’t do well in lab sciences or chemistry. now is poli-sci + pre-med (but how does one do pre-med without doing well in science??) comes back drunk occasionally, but usually someone else who lives on the floor puts her to bed before leaving us in peace (i usually get up just to lock the door after them)
passive-aggressive - she’s super nice, but when she gets *</em></strong>ed at someone, she goes the whole passive-aggressive route by leaving slightly mean notes places, texting us sternly, even though we all know who she’s mad at (*****y business major) because she’s also a business major and has to deal with her in their professional groups & stuff. mostly pretty nice, though. glad i share a bedroom with her instead of the other two.</p>
<p>@vihzel: that’s really bad… are you positive it’s them? have you like told your RA or whoever? honestly, i don’t even think that even if my roommate made off with all my possessions he’d come up with 500 dollars looooool. 400 dollars of that is from my laptop. and the other 100 would be from my bedding (and random stuff that i can’t think of right now) and 10 dollar cell phone? if he stole my glasses off my face i guess that’d be another 500 dollars, but i got them for free because of insurance, and it’s no real loss as we get free glasses every year and what would he do with them? anyway, i think i’ll be okay. </p>
<p>@emaheevul: has that happened before loool?? lol. besides, it is your room.</p>
<p>My roommate is a complete and total slob (her clothes, dishes, and crap are ALL over the place), pregames in the room (on my desk sometimes, mind you) and leaves her shot glasses and handles in plain sight and then doesn’t lock the door when she leaves, lets people sleep in my bed on the nights I’m not in the room without asking me, stumbles in at 3 in the morning wasted and starts cooking ramen while I’m trying to sleep, eats my food, doesn’t have any respect for my personal space, purposely took the nicer bed and closet with a mirror when she moved in without giving me a choice, sleeps with guys in the room all the time, and blasts loud, annoying music when I’m trying to do homework. She’s loud, obnoxious, and is one of those people who thinks that the whole world loves her and it drives her mad that I can’t stand her or put up with her ********. </p>
<p>And then on those nights when she stays in and I go out and come home late, all hell will break loose should I accidentally happen to wake her up when I come home. Ughhh. And then my floor wonders why I never spend any time in my dorm…</p>
<p>I’ve had 2 roommates this year, a different one each semester.</p>
<p>The guy I had last semester was horrible. Firstly, I am bi (it’s not apparent at all) and he addressd me as “■■■■■■” and while I try to keep the fact that Im bi on the DL and I’ve never hooked up with a guy in my life, he told our entire floor than I’m ** gay ** and that I was trying to make moves on him. Haha nice try.
He requested to room with a friend from high school, but the request wasn’t honored so he took it out on me every day. I was always chill and nice to him but I never got that back. He threw parties in our room starting on Tuesday night, threw up in our room on a weekly basis, tossed the stuff in my fridge to make room for his beer, would masturbate and not clean up after, let people sleep in my bed, and then one time he got so drunk that he woke me up in the middle of the night and tried to fight me and gave me a black eye. He blasted music whenever he was in the room, he played COD on full-volume when I was trying to sleep (however he always used the headset when I ** was ** awake) and he’d leave the lights on in the room when he left if I was still in bed. And then twice he brought a girl back while I was sleeping and I woke up to their vocalizations. Also he smoked in the room and his friends stole stuff (money, headphones, etc) from my desk. I finally got a roommate switch.</p>
<p>Current roommate is a kid I met in a class last semester. We got alone really well in that class and he wanted to move from a single to a double right at the same time I was having trouble with my other roommate, so it worked out great. We get along great but we’re more different than I hsd thought. He gets uneasy when I drink or talk about drinking and he literally studies 15 hours a day as Im more social. But he’s easy to live with.</p>
<p>My university had everyone fill out a survey about preferences, and, well… I might as well have not filled it out. I’m pretty sure the only thing we said the same thing on is not smoking cigarettes. All things said and done, we coexist together well enough, though there are some things that bother me.</p>
<p>1) Our room is a FREEZER. Literally. She’s always complaining about how hot it is in our room and keeps turning the thermostat further and further down. Her optimal temperature is about 50 degrees. I’m sorry, but I signed up to live in a room, not an igloo :(</p>
<p>2) She’s had a persistent cough for months. I understand coughing is involuntary and all, but I really hate how I can’t get to sleep sometimes because she constantly goes into coughing fits every few seconds.</p>
<p>3) I have never met someone who sleeps so much in my entire life. Goes to bed at 10, 11 o’clock (unless she’s going out partying, in which case she stays out later), sleeps until 8:30 or 9:30 because she has class, comes back at 1, and sleeps until 6. When she’s awake, she complains about how tired she is. My room is like a silent labyrinth, dark and quiet because she’s sleeping.</p>
<p>4) She constantly goes out partying and has come back drunk to the point of being sick. She’s never once apologized even though she was barfing up her brains.</p>
<p>5) Found out the other day she’s keeping drugs in our room. Not cool.</p>
<p>^Oh gosh, I had to go through some of your other posts to make sure you weren’t my roommate complaining about me, lol. </p>
<p>I do a lot of the same things I take a lot of naps (though I leave the lights on so she’s free to do whatever), have a bad cough (though it hasn’t been for months, I know it bothers her and I do all I can to help it), go out a lot and have thrown up in the room (however she doesn’t know about that because she’s been gone for the weekend whenever that has happened and I cleaned it up immediately), and I do keep some drugs (but I don’t think she knows about them and I would accept immediate responsibility for them if for some reason they were found). I also like to keep the room really cold lol, but she’s free to turn it up, I never complain about a thing to her.</p>
<p>I know I’m not the best roommate, but I really do try to not impact her life that negatively.</p>
<p>Ah, these two things might be related. Have you showed her the literature on the health repercussions of extreme temperatures on the immune system? </p>
<p>Depending on the policies of your dorm, that might not really matter. I’ve heard of kids who had to take alcohol classes because their roommate got busted for alcohol, even if there wasn’t any proof that they were even in the room when it was being consumed. You should double-check that, just in case, so that nothing bad happens to anyone.</p>
<p>^I know, I know. I don’t plan on getting caught though…I never do anything in the room and I hide it super well so the only way that could happen is if she reported me. The year’s almost over though, and where else am I supposed to put my alcohol/drugs?</p>
<p>When I’m going to bed she’ll leave for her boyfriend’s suite, and then come back super early in the morning, then sleep late into the morning, then come back to the room after class and take a ~3 hour nap. Pretty much every day. I’ll run into her in the bathroom and she’ll go “sorry to be napping when you probably wanted into the room, I was just like randomly so TIRED!” I am thinking to myself “it’s not random… try sleeping at night and that would fix you right up.” </p>
<p>She has to get up early for sports practice once a week (every other day I am up before her) and she makes no effort to be quiet getting ready (opening and closing doors, slamming her drawers) and she spends the whole rest of the day complaining about how she had to get ready in the dark when that is what I do every single day.</p>
<p>Over the winter I had to be away on the weekends a lot for sports, and I’d come back and all the things on my desk would be piled up and moved around and there would be bottles and shot glasses and juice on it (I don’t drink…), one time I came back early and she and her friends were using my desk as their bar. </p>
<p>AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST - if I’m listening to music and she comes in, she’ll ask if I can put on my headphones (fine) but then refuses to put on hers. ever. even if I ask she says they’re uncomfortable and can’t I just wear mine and then I can’t hear her music? But I can. Always. And she listens to really ****ty music - she has like 5 John Mayer songs that she just listens to on repeat (and all John Mayer songs sound the same anyway!) and it makes me want to pull off my own arm just to have something to hit her with.</p>
<p>Also she snores and her stuff takes up about 3/4 of the room. When friends ask if they can see my room I joke that I can show them my corner of my roommate’s room.</p>
<p>more complaints…he always goes to bed at like 8 PM so he wants the lights turned off. so it gets really dark/depressing even with my desk lamps. then he wakes up at 4 in the morning and goes somewhere and comes back at 8, which is when im about to take a shower. as soon as he comes into the room at that time, he takes off all his clothes, save for some really small underwear (and no, i don’t look, but he makes it a habit to stand next to me when im getting my clothes out…and he stands there for like 10 freaking minutes before he jumps in the shower), and runs to the shower before i can get there. then he showers for like 40 minutes, when i have class… at 9.</p>
<p>anyway, whenever he comes back into the room, he takes off all his clothes for some reason, save for sometimes a shirt, but most of the time he is in his underwear…really creepy.</p>
<p>My roommate brings people in all the time. Literally, I was sitting on my bed doing homework when her and her friend walk in. Her friend looks at me and is like “oh yeah, I’m spending the night tonight.” Um…can I at least get a heads up before you bring a stranger to sleep on the floor next to my bed? Not to mention the fact that they stay up until 3 am watching youtube, cackling, shouting, and eating bacon (I’m a vegetarian and the smell makes me sick, so not only am I up, exhausted, irritated, but I’m also sick to my stomach).</p>
I take a lot of naps (though I leave the lights on so she’s free to do whatever), have a bad cough (though it hasn’t been for months, I know it bothers her and I do all I can to help it), go out a lot and have thrown up in the room (however she doesn’t know about that because she’s been gone for the weekend whenever that has happened and I cleaned it up immediately), and I do keep some drugs (but I don’t think she knows about them and I would accept immediate responsibility for them if for some reason they were found). I also like to keep the room really cold lol, but she’s free to turn it up, I never complain about a thing to her.</p>