I had pretty bad roommates freshman and sophomore year of college.

Freshman year, I lived with a home-schooled, hard-core baptist (I went to a southern christian university). She was originally pre-Pharm, but skipped all her 8 am classes (including calculus, pretty much dooming her from the start). I tried to get along with her for the first couple of months, but she pretty much alienated herself from me. Apparently if you live with someone who was home-schooled, they go batshit crazy their first year of college. She had guys in our room all the time, and even had one guy spend the night in our room on my birthday. She woke up in the morning and didn't know how she got so many hickies on her body. She drank like a fish and was often drunk. One night the girls across the hall from me knocked on my door and said "We're so sorry to hear about your roommate." Obviously I was confused because she hadn't been in all day. She apparently got so drunk she fell down a flight of stairs and got a concussion. She was in the hospital. Luckily she moved out after one semester and I had a single for the rest of the year.

Sophomore year, the year that I rushed, I lived with a sorority sister of another sorority, another music major, and a pre-Pharm girl who was Vietnamese. We had a pretty run-down apartment, but we cleaned it up and it was quite homey. We even had a piano in the living room (which was amazing because my primary instrument in college was piano, so I didn't have to get a practice room and could practice in my pj's). The music major and I got along really well- she had a long term boyfriend (now husband) who we helped decorate the entire apartment in candles and streamers outside after he proposed to her.

The sorority girl was absolutely disgusting. She had horrible acne (to the point that it would break open and pus would drain out when she talked) and facial hair. She also had TERRIBLE B.O. She didn't wear deodorant and didn't wash her towels often so our bathroom always smelled like it. She wore perfume to cover it up during the day. She was a nice girl, but her hygiene was atrocious. I know acne is not something easily dealt with, but hers was something that I've never seen before.

The Vietnamese girl was weird. She was always cooking weird food in the kitchen (most of the time it was Pho which was okay), and some of the meat she used didn't look like beef or pork or chicken or duck. I never did figure out what she was cooking. She stayed to herself, studying or talking obsessively on the phone with her Korean boyfriend. Which was apparently a huge problem for her parents because they called all the time checking in on her and asking if she was with him. One night they even came to the apartment just to see if she was there (she wasn't and told us to lie to them and say she was at Wal-Mart). She came home crying not long after because apparently her parents found her and him shacked up somewhere.

I was clear with her that she wasn't responsible for the dog, but a dog shouldn't be left in a crate when someone is home. She agreed but didn't follow through which was what gets me, if you say you'll do something, do it. If she didn't want the dog to go potty in the apartment (at that time, the dog was still being potty trained) then all she had to do was to take her outside for all of 3 minutes. I never forced my ex-roommate to care for my dog or to pay any money for toys, food, treats, whatever. The amount of time she spent in the crate never bothered me but if someone is home, there is no need for her to be crated unless you are asleep or in the shower, if you go to any reputable trainer or website, they will agree.

Your dog = your responsibility. Expecting your roommate to take the dog outside is putting a task on her she didn't ask for. If the dog was still being potty trained, then of course she's going to leave it in the crate. She doesn't want to be responsible for cleaning up accidents around the apartment. Plus, if it's still a puppy, she shouldn't have to keep an eye on the dog when it's out of the crate to make sure it isn't chewing her shoes, getting into stuff it shouldn't. It doesn't matter what dog trainers or websites say! It's not her dog to worry about.

I currently have a roommate. I gave him his 30 day notice on July 31.

The charges:

* Rent is due on the 30th of the month, which he agreed to when he signed our roommate agreement. He has been late every month that has the 31st. It is not my problem that you are only paid on the last day of the month, you need to be responsible enough to pay the rent when it is due. When I reminded him when the rent was due, he got an attitude. That's really the main reason why I gave him notice, but there is also more.

* He broke my window fan which was less than two months old, and lied and said it spontaneously fell down.

* He had been eating my food without asking permission and lied and said "I thought you said this was for everybody." (I would never say that.)

* My walls are MAD DIRTY now. It's as though he walks around flailing about, touching everything with every body part.

* He has NEVER cleaned the living room. It's as though he has never dusted anything in his life.

* I think he's cleaned the kitchen once.

* I KNOW he's only cleaned the bathroom once because he was so poor at it, I decided to never ask him to do it again.

* He lied and said he's not a smoker, yet he smells like Richmond (no offense) every time he gets home from work.

* He has drank my alcohol and has let my friends drink my alcohol.

* He's just a piss poor human being.

I hate that I have to have a roommate at all, but I'm definitely not keeping one that messes up my home life.

I really wanted to say this to him when I gave him his notice:

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