<p>@aforautumn I agree with you for the most part, but until you have lived with him it’s hard to say. I mean if you had a room mate you didn’t like and complain, would that make you hater because he/she does things that bother you? Just a thought. I think everyone is entitled to some complaining room. </p>
<p>@gator4ever You really should stop making false assumptions because it makes you look very arrogant and foolish since like I said before, you don’t know me at all. Believe me, I have dealt with crappy room mates that have come home at late hours, drunk, and extremely loud without any regard that I have to work tomorrow morning. On top of that, they would hurl everywhere and I would be the one to have to clean it up. I’m not going to go into every detail on each issue my summer room mates had. I’ll leave it at they we’re you’re typical “fratty” room mate. </p>
<p>One final note, I had 3 “fratty” room mates that annoyed me as opposed to 1 weird room mate. Grant it I lived with those 3 guys for 6-7 weeks or so, I’d rather deal with the 3 frat guys then this weird guy since I could talk to them normally and they sometime (not always) acknowledge their mistakes. We’ll see what happens in the Spring, but just to let you know, this is not just me complaining it’s all 3 of us. If it was just 1 person out of 4, I would understand your point, but it is all 3 of us saying mostly the same thing. Just another fact to through out there</p>
<p>I appreciate all the advice and opinions you all have, I’ll keep updating this as new things happen. Hopefully someone else has found this to be useful</p>
<p>So after living with this weird guy for an entire semester, just wanted to give some advice to incoming freshmen and other people on how to deal with a weird room mate.</p>
<p>1) Housing is not helpful: After running around trying to figure out someway to mitigate this situation, the housing department pretty much said “deal with it”. UNLESS your room mate is violent, has illegal substances, or is stealing your things then Housing could really careless. A room mate swap has to be made on the part of the room mate in question, so technically no one can get “kicked out” unless doing the aforementioned things above. </p>
<p>2) Talk to your RA: Talking to your RA can be one of the most helpful and elevating things to do as it lets out all of your anger and frustration about your weird room mate. This also helps keep a record on all the problematic things you’ve witnessed your room mate do. That way, at least in my case, the poor unfortunate souls know what they are signing up for when they get this guy as a room mate. </p>
<p>3) Try to talking to your Roommate: <em>NOTE</em> this might not work for all scenarios, but it is still useful to do at least since it does get your emotions and issues out there. Although, in my case it was not as helpful since my weird room mate would continue to break the room mate contract and acting even more weird. In addition to talking, you should try to be as honest and blunt as possible. That way there is no miscommunication or misinterpretation. Although this didn’t always work since my room mate would lie to me, it still helps out when confronting your RA as it shows that you have done your part. </p>
<p>4) Document everything: It is important to document ANYTHING your room mate does that you find to be an issue. For me, my list contained about 40+ things that were issues not just from my perspective but my other 2 suite mates as well. The more you document, the better your case will be and the better job Housing can do. That way you have something to reflect on when confronting your room mate on these things. </p>
<p>Hope all this was helpful. After talking to my RA and being patient with this guy, at least there is a record on his bizarre behavior and at that point that is best thing you can do for the good of others living on campus. So best of luck to all new incoming freshmen, hopefully your rooming situations won’t be no where near as ridiculous as mine was!</p>
<p>@JKidrauhl - Thanks for the input. I knew a roomate who was super weird too. He wasn’t mine, but everytime I was over my friends dorm the guy would freak me out. He would talk to himself and slap himself in the head and call himself stupid when he’d make a mistake. He was very socially awkward and said random bizzare things. He would walk around with a woden katana, and sometimes I’d see him standing by the street on random spots on campus just busting out moves with the katana in the middle of the day (this guy was jewish btw). He was very geeky and smelled, and I could understand your frustration dealing with weird people. I was just visiting, and I would notice how “off” this guy was and you have all the right to complain and vent. Idk why some people here are so against your right to be annoyed by these things. Maybe they are weird themselves and are taking your complaints personal lol</p>
<p>Sounds like you took an outcast that was socially awkward, and tried to get him kicked out of his dorm room (again)-- alienating him even further-- because he thought out loud, rolled in his sleep, and woke up an hour before you.</p>
<p>First of all, he stayed in the dorm the entire semester.</p>
<p>Second of all, as the semester progressed there were a LOT of serious complaints we all had about him. The things listed were just in like the first 2 weeks. I would list them all but I don’t all that info out there.</p>
<p>In all honesty, it takes a certain kind of person to put up with someone like that. I mean he did get removed/transferred from a dorm for a reason. Several people shard the same opinions. So the fact that the problems continued to progress when he moved means that the problem lies more so on him then the people around him as bad as it may sound. </p>
<p>So i want people reading to take my experience as a lesson when getting random room mates and hopefully finding it to be useful :)</p>
<p>Thanks! Hope you found this helpful! It can be frustrating but what’s even MORE frustrating is when the parents get involved and believe their child is an “angel”. I figured the parents did not like me, but it didn’t help when they told him “oh HE’S the issue. HE can’t act right”. Seriously, that did not help the issue at all and just made things worse. Hopefully his new room mates see this because they’re going to need all the advice they can get!</p>
<p>I had the opposite problem. My new roommate would be asleep by 10 pm so I couldn’t even study in the room. It ultimately worked to my advantage. After discussing the lifestyle differences with my RA and HA, I ultimately got a single.</p>
<p>I had a much different schedule than my roommates usually. I would go and study in the common area at night, and it never became a big issue.</p>
<p>I also had a roommate who liked to talk to himself… loudly. Well, it was a kind of very loud whisper. I thought he was a little neurotic, but he was a great guy when I got to know him. One day, for example, I got super sick from some bad pizza and had to go to the health center. He took time off class to go drive me there first thing in the morning and pick me up when the center was closing for the day (was stuck in a bed with an IV drip all day). From then on, we were good friends.</p>
<p>Wow! That’s pretty sweet! So you moved out? </p>
<p>Yeah my GHD was pretty useless, and my RA’s hands we’re tied so she felt bad about it knowing the extent of the situation. She even ran out of advice for me! Kudos to you man! I wish we could have done the same, but moving 3 people as opposed to 1 would have been difficult</p>
<p>That’s nice of him! Glad things worked out with you! Yeah there really wasn’t much to my room mate other than school related things so it was pretty hard to get to know him. Plus he pretty much did not like me since I would be the one to call him out on all the issues that my and roommates and I had with him.</p>