Okay so during the month of January my roommate and I both have classes that start at 8:30 am. I get up at 7:00 am to shower and get ready y’know stuff like that. Usually I start blow-drying my hair in the bathroom at around 7:45 and I leave at 7:50 to go get breakfast. Note that my roommate gets up at around 7:50-8ish.
Now yesterday she sent me a text asking me to take night showers as my hairdryer is waking her up. I told her that I couldn’t because morning showers help me wake up and helps my hair look less greasy. She then started flipping out and started saying things like “I’m not being fair to the both of us” and that she was going to complain to the RA
Now I have to go to a meeting with her to discuss this dumb problem and I don’t know how to fix it. My morning schedule is already really tight and I don’t want to have to get ready later because she doesn’t want to get up fifteen minutes early. Any tips?
Stick to your schedule and defend it. Your roommate normally wakes up at 7:50 but complains she’s being woken up at 7:45? That’s pretty ridiculous. She’ll just need to wake up 5 minutes earlier.
I doubt that taking a shower and blowdrying hair before an 8am class rises to the level of violating quiet hours. Do people have to shower and blow dry their hair before 10 at night? When do they study?
She can complain to the RA, but getting up 45 minutes before class is perfectly reasonable. You’ve already put your blow drying at the end of your schedule so IMO you’ve accommodated her sleep schedule plenty.
@naviance showering and blow drying are two different noise levels. BTW, I’m not saying OP is right or wrong, just thought quiet hours merited mentioning. I agree in theory, waking the roommate up 5 min before is not that bad, but I’m just saying technically, there may be a policy against it.
Lose the attitude and talk it out in a civil manner. Perhaps something as simple as getting/using a white noise machine in your room overnight would resolve the issue.
I assume you close the door to the bathroom? Is her bed right next to the bathroom? Can you switch beds?
If she gets up at 7:50/8 then I really don’t see this as a problem.
Update: Tried to talk this out with my roomie but she decided that she didn’t want to be roommate anymore because of this whole thing. So now I have a room to myself for the rest of the school year lol. I wish that things worked out better but I can’t say that I’m sad about not having a roommate anymore.
Good luck.