<p>Does anyone else have terrible roommate stories? My roommate is chinese and came here for college so we can't communicate at all, and he is quite possibly the most inconsiderate person I've ever met. It's not necessarily because he's a bad person, I just think he's completely oblivious to things like common courtesy. His friends come into our room at all hours of the night to use our microwave, borrow his computer stuff, or argue with him in chinese (and when I say all hours of the night, I mean this has happened twice in the past week alone at 3:30 and 5:30 in the morning). He turns the thermostat to above 80 degrees despite the fact that we live in Florida, then sleeps naked and makes no effort to conceal himself when he gets out of bed, he sleeps from around 6 AM to 4 PM every day (I have no idea how this works with his class schedule) which makes it sort of hard to go about my day in my room, and he sets his phone alarm and then leaves it on his desk and sleeps through it, resulting in an almost daily routine of 15-20 minutes of his alarm going off and him not turning it off (and me not knowing how). I've tried talking to him about these things, but he just sort of nods and does nothing (I don't think he understands me). Anybody else have stories like this? And any advice on how to deal with this?</p>
<p>I am sure your school has a good support system in place .Start with your resident advisor ,and work your way up the food chain .YOU must be proactive to get what you need ,like a new room or roommate .</p>
<p>Honestly I thought about it, but I wasn’t really proactive about it at first and now I basically only have two months left living with before (god willing) I never have to see him again. I really regret not rooming with someone I already knew though, I had good intentions (wanting to meet new people), but I feel like in hindsight leaving something like that to chance wasn’t smart, even if it worked out for a lot of other people.</p>
<p>There’s a thread of complaining about your roommate lying around here somewhere…</p>
<p>Your roommate does sound like a nightmare though. Obnoxious and oblivious?</p>
<p>i can relate, i have some horrible roommate stories from freshman year. but the key is communication… like telling him how you feel about his habits and if he could be more respectful of you. if not you only have to live there for two more months like you said.</p>
<p>wow i had almost an exact simillar situation two years ago (though he could at least speak english). need less to say he moved out at the end of the semester. sometimes it doesnt work out</p>
<p>To be honest, rooming with a friend isn’t a great idea either. Living in close quarters with someone, whether you’re close or not, can really put a damper on your friendship. At least with this guy, it’s like “Yeah, whatever, never talk to him again after this.”
Honestly, go to an RA now. 2 months is a lot of months, and that sucks.</p>
<p>My roommate wasn’t bad, but she kind of left me hanging this semester. She decided she wanted a private room, so I didn’t know what was going on coming back from winter break. Luckily it all worked out for me (I’ve got a private room for a shared room price), but realistically, the chances were not leading me to that, and because of her choice, I was supposed to suffer by getting a new roommate and moving to another dorm where I know no one. I lucked out choosing to take a foreign roommate who never showed up.</p>
<p>Yeah, sounds like you def need to go to your RA. And maybe get a translator. </p>
<p>My roommate last year is now the star of the soccer team and when I moved in, she had already been there for two weeks for training and had tons of soccer friends, so she basically ignored me the whole year, which was fine with me, except that she would suddenly act like she wanted to hang out with me every once in a while, then either go back to ignoring me or ditch me by lying about her homework load, so I’d go home for the weekend and see her tagged in her friends’ pics on Facebook, hanging out and clearly not doing homework.
She’d come into the room late, after I’d gone to bed, and leave the door open (bright lights!) for 5 mins while she got dropped off her stuff and went down the hall to the bathroom. She also kidnapped my mini fridge and put it on her side of the room, broke school rules, had friends fly in to stay for 5 days (only allowed for 3 and let said friends sleep in my bed over the weekend Without. Asking!), and gossiped about me behind my back. Then she started having her soccer friends report back to her about everything I said in my Psychology class about my childhood, etc, which was supposed to be confidential. And the whole time she was nice to everyone else, so they thought she was an angel. Anyway, I’m soooo glad it’s over. The whole roller-coaster of emotions she put me through is gonna take therapy to get rid of. Wonder if I can send her the bill…</p>