My roommate at governor's school (a six week summer program at a college) was ridiculous. She was so uptight, antisocial, and her head was surgically connected to her phone (she was in the room every second on the phone with her boyfriend.) She would even call him at 6:30 AM, which was way before we needed to get up, to wake him up for work. I mean talk about codependent... she refused to make friends with guys because she said she didn't need any guy friends... she already had her boyfriend. This meant that she wouldn't go to any dances or parties that involved guys.</p>
<p>She was a nice girl and all, but her constant presence in the room grated on my nerves after a while. Sometimes you just need a little alone time. I spent a lot of time trying to bring her out of her shell, and I think it was a learning experience for both of us, but I definitely don't want a roommate like her in college.
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<p>How can she be antisocial if she had a boyfriend. and whats wrong with staying in your room, its her's isint it lol.</p>
<p>We were both 17. I was shocked when she started whimpering and crying when I turned the lights and the radio off, but I didn't want to be rude, so I just said nothing. I lay in bed for awhile and she was still crying, so I asked her what's wrong. She told me she had accidentally pushed her teddy bear to the floor, and she was afraid of the dark and never slept without her teddy bear. I just said, "Oh, really?" and tried to go to sleep. She was still whimpering, so I sighed, and climbed down my bunk. I picked up her bear, turned on her lamp, and turned the radio on low. Then she finally went to sleep. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, and I later found out she hangs out with a bunch of kids who have unprotected sex and do hard drugs all the time and she was like that too.... I don't get how she could lead such a rough lifestyle and still be afraid of the dark. I know, they're two different things, but still, I'd be more afraid of dying from an overdose or getting pregnant with an unwanted child than being afraid of the dark. o_O;</p>
<p>I actually had a really good roommate at my summer program. The rooms were kind of suite style (two dorm rooms connected by a bathroom) and all 4 of us got along REALLY well. We were all polar opposites too. I'm an agnostic Jew from Georgia, my roommate was a preacher's daughter from Indiana, our suitemate was a Cuban living in NJ and was converting to Islam, and our other suitemate had severe health problems and was almost blind and was converting to Judaism. It was interesting.</p>
<p>We were the only group who actually had work at the summer program (and all 4 of us were in the same group... there were only 5 of us and the other was a guy) so we spent most of our time hanging out and studying. And we did EVERYTHING together, which was good because both my roommate and I had the same fears about not knowing anyone.</p>
<p>The only bad thing wasn't in my room but in the suite. One of the girls HAD to sleep with her rainforest noisemaker thingy (like a white noise machine). I never would have been able to fall asleep with that.</p>
<p>My roommate is a hardcore Christian too, and I'm...not.
Even though I have morals as she does, they're both for different purposes and she makes me feel like I'm the devil woman.</p>
<p>last year at a summer program I had a roommate that had some kind of personality disorder. Im not sure exactly what it was but he was kinda violent and hyper when he didnt take his medicine. The first 2 days he was perfect we hung out, we talked to the other kids.. we basically just chilled with the whole group. About the third day he stopped taking his medicine and problems started. First, he was constantly trying to sound tough and talking trash.. he even came and ripped my headphones out of my ear when i was listening to some music. Then he constantly tries to flirt with a girl who i was friends with (she didnt like him) and he was basically all over her, but she was a really nice girl so she tried to deal with him politely. Around the fourth day he starts going in and out of the room at all times between 2-6 am(I ran in the morning at 7 am most days so i usually tried to be asleep by 2 or 3). Then he justs gets really out of hand and constantly talks trash to everyone(and its like crazy talk, it doesnt even make sense) until i finally get mad and step up to him(while praying that he doesnt take a swing because we are both pretty strong and athletic and if a fight breaks out one of us is gonna get hurt bad) and luckily he justs walks away talking to himself...
He was a really great kid when he took his medicine but w/o it he was completely nuts</p>