<p>I’ve been very lucky with my randomly-selected roommates. They were all normal, down-to-earth guys, and all possessed “roommate qualities.”</p>
<p>I had a terrible experience with my friend roommate. Ultimately, my self-righteousness and love for winning arguments are largely to blame, but his complete inability to reason logically really didn’t help us when we tried to normalize our strained friendship. In the end, I just couldn’t tolerate a person who got angry at me because I couldn’t read his mind. What happened, exactly? I asked him if there was anything I was doing that he didn’t like, and he focused on one behavior. I corrected it immediately, but by doing so, I angered him because he expected me to realize that the behavior-in-question wasn’t the true culprit, it was something else. Yet, I would never have guessed that “something else” was the problem because he never got angry at our third roommate for doing “something else.”</p>
<p>Good thing i didnt get the double i requested, and instead got a single.</p>
<p>but my sis who goes to a liberal arts college said once she came back to her dorm and found a naked white girl in her bed, who had peed herself </p>
<p>I got along pretty well with all my roommates although I did have one housemate (which isn’t the same thing, but similar) who simply didn’t flush the toilet. I asked him repeatedly if he could kindly remember to flush after he is done, but to no avail. Anyway, he was otherwise cool. In fact, I have never had a roommate like diontechristmas had. That was the kind of roommate I was always terrified I would get stuck with since I went to a state school where there were a lot of super-aggressive Italian types, but I was fortunate in that it never worked out that way. I also think that like 50% of roommate problems have to do with noise while sleeping which totally doesn’t have to be the case if people would just learn to wear ear plugs.</p>
<p>my roommate’s a d*ck for leaving the TV on at night. he said it helps him fall asleep. there have been so many times i couldn’t sleep after i was awakened by the damn noise. imma gona tell him to use the sleep timer. other than that, hes pretty OK.</p>
<p>I once had, for 2 wks only, a roommate from Ukraine sharing my room. During this terrible period he:</p>
<ul>
<li>stored semi-empty plates full of smelly food in the room (it was Summer School, guess the chemical reactions ongoing and their olfative side effects)</li>
<li>moved away my bed desk to his side so we could store his stuff over MY desk</li>
<li>used to spill water all over the floor when brushing his theet, then stored his toothbrush inside a nasty transparent glass with gray-scale water accumulating there. Taking over the whole sink cabinet was a bonus…</li>
<li>had terrible smelly feet.</li>
<li>turned off the light whenever HE wanted to sleep, regardless of what I was doing.</li>
</ul>
<p>I managed to move into a single after 11 days.</p>
<p>He wasn’t my roommate but he lived in our dorm. He was SO paranoid about people stealing his keyboard (piano) that he would constantly tell us to close all the curtains and windows so that no one could see through the windows. It was weird because everything was so dark and it was light outside and you see the guy playing his keyboard in the living room. He would also never sit still. While we were watching a movie, he would get up, move to a different spot, then 5 minutes later, move to another spot; and that happened throughout the movie. He would also input his own commentary and it was so annoying when you have a guy come up from behind you and critique why so and so is so ugly or why their acting is bad.</p>
<p>My roommate rocks! I couldn’t have found a better one ^_^. I got lucky lol. We’re not <em>friends</em> yet but we have a lot of laughs late at night while we work on homework and stuff…</p>
<p>I did the awful-roommate-experience backwards, I had that one sophomore year. (My freshman year roomie was awesome!)</p>
<p>A few good anecdotes: She wouldn’t let me have a tiny, very quiet fan on at night when it was blisteringly hot because it supposedly kept her up. (She apparently defies biology and can’t sleep with white noise.) She ran into the closet when I started changing; not just when SHE was changing, but also when <i>I</i> was changing. I was the first one to tell her, ever, that pants with a tapered leg aren’t flattering on anyone above a size 0. She judged me for wearing jeans, flipflops, and a t-shirt to class, because it’s apparently “not formal enough”. She told me that I was stupid for listening to ABBA, and that I should be listening to REAL music like Bach or Mozart or Handel. She also told me that it was stupid to be taking a multi-vitamin because eating like “a normal person” means you have no susceptibility for a nutrient deficiency or osteoporosis due to inadequate calcium (which my family has). She was terrified of any movies past a PG rating (saying that they’d either be inappropriately sexual or WAY too scary). I wasn’t allowed to watch TV or play music aloud, because she had to “study” (i.e. sit at her desk and panic about her 3.94 GPA and then go on Facebook). She couldn’t understand the concept of being quiet in the mornings: I told her that she’s loud, and bangs around loud enough that I’m woken up THROUGH EARPLUGS, but she claimed she was doing her best. Worst of all, she snored like a tractor and wouldn’t do anything to fix it. And that’s all NOTHING compared to her own psychological issues/mentally traumatic experiences as a child, which caused insane panic attacks and advanced acid-reflux disease.</p>
<p>And here’s the kicker: I CHOSE HER. NO IDEA that she was so bat****-insane. I agreed to room with her out of pity, thinking that probably no one else would want to room with her…NO KIDDING!</p>
<p>Now, thank GOD, I’m living with my best friend in the world, who has ALL of the same roommate pet peeves that I have. We’re getting along FABULOUSLY.</p>
<p>I live in a suite with five other guys. Three rooms are used as doubles, one living room, and a bathroom. The walls are rather thin.</p>
<p>Current roommate morning ritual: </p>
<p>He wakes up at 6:30AM, unwraps his granola bar and listens to music and/or plays on the portable PS3 player (the typing and clicks in the morning seems 10x louder), stumbles around like a drunk, slams the door (when he does) or leaves it open so I hear everything he does in the bathroom and living room. I told him to get headphones since he use to listen to music in the morning the first two days, he did, but now he uses them every so often turning the volume low (um, I still hear it). Roommate “I just scribble down computations and use my laptop for homework,” so he doesn’t use the desks available in the living room and instead uses his bed as a desk. Also, he uses a chair as his leg rest - never bothers to remove it when he’s not using it, so at night when I use the washroom I’m greeted by a desk chair in our 10x12 bedroom.</p>
I couldn’t have found a better one ^_^. I got lucky lol. We’re not <em>friends</em> yet but we have a lot of laughs late at night while we work on homework and stuff…</p>