<p>i said on my housing application that i dont want a roommate who doesnt drink, would this mean i will get an alcoholic? what are your experiences with this? and um, will i be able to do homework? lol</p>
<p>Whatever is listed on the roomate preference application is never accurate. People put down they sleep between 10-12, don't smoke or drink, and then end up throwing a mini drinking party and stays up until 5AM.</p>
<p>This doesn't automatically put you in a situation with an alcoholic. Just talk to your roomate about it if drinking in the room is an issue. My roomate said he didn't drink, but he had lots of alcohol in his drawers and microfridge. I was okay with it because it was never taken out when I was in the room.</p>
<p>As for homework, I cannot answer this. You ask yourself that question. Can you do homework if someone who drinks is in your room?</p>
<p>I put that I didn't drink, and I have no idea what my roommates put. The only real trouble I had with roommate drinking was during first quarter because my roommate that drank was REALLY loud when drunk...really obviously did not know how to control herself, and it was only a big problem the day she got drunk on a weekday (Halloween was on a Tuesday last year), though she did do that two other times on the weekend and I couldn't sleep thanks to her incessant talking. </p>
<p>Oh and she had people over in the room and they all drank in there but for the most part that was when I was at home for the weekend.</p>
<p>damn! i hope my roomate isnt like that. what did you do?</p>
<p>i think in the situation that you get a bad roommate, you're going to have to make everything extra clear during the meeting with your RA in the beginning of the year...and if problems still arise, then you're going to have to not be passive aggressive and speak out to your 'bad' roommate. thats really the only solution i see (and one that i followed this past year).</p>
<p>I put on my application that I drink and smoke. I prefer to do both outside the home with an occassional social but there's no room in the tiny studio so i'm going to talk to my roommate about that.</p>
<p>I guess just talk to your roommate and don't hold things in too much because you're going to spend a 1/3 of your day with the person regardless.</p>
<p>Some rules i plan to enforce is no smoking inside the apartment and no one over after 10pm on school nights.</p>
<p>bump! more input on this!!</p>
<p>Sometimes your roommates are okay at first, right, and then things get worse and worse as they get more comfortable with you. </p>
<p>At the end of the quarter, I peed in her shampoo bottle. I want her parents's little dry cleaning business to fail and I want her to work as a hooker in Toronto.</p>
<p>moldau i'd love to hear more of your (semi) anonymous confessions... i bet the list is long and shocking.</p>
<p>haha namaste, we should have a confessions thread. and it IS semi anonymous.</p>
<p>You are the shadiest girl I've ever met, moldau.</p>
<p>Yes! put confessions down lol!! so i can have some idea of what to expect :)</p>
<p>but seriously, people do change. So you might get along at first and then progress to wanting to kill each other. I ended up practically living in (a combination of) Boelter (I had keys to some rooms), Powell, other people's rooms and the house. And she'd make up rules and be like its in the housing contract, while it really wasnt when I checked with my RA.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, be really careful with your housing contract. If you say your roommate can eat your food, you have to be okay with it always because its on the contract, etc. etc. Some people really take that thing seriously like that fat pus-y *****.</p>
<p>moldau: why were you the one out of the room? couldn't you have kicked her out?? i know if i ever get a roommate that dififcult (unlikely since men arent so much drama) i'd be fighting tooth and nail for my 12k.</p>
<p>i keep having dreams... erm, nightmares... that i'm back in my dorm room :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I thought that if the person didnt follow the contract they could be kicked out, or the RA would give them a warning.</p>
<p>namaste, she was ****ing scary</p>
<p>mojojojo - it becomes a he said she said thing.</p>