How was your freshmen roommate?
 

In honor of another board which ask the same question, how was it?

I had 3, first one dissapeared after one week. No idea what happen to him. 2nd one masturbated a lot and watch porns all day. He freaked me out. He also had a New Kids concert t-shirt. He dropped out 2 weeks later. No idea why. 3rd one was really cool. Loved his hip hop and r&b, he also eventually come to love the Dead and Phish.

My freshman roomie was really nice. She was an upperclassmen (I think she was a junior then?) so it was really nice of her to take me out and meet new people & have some fun.

There were only a couple things she did that annoyed me.. like when she talked on the phone, she talked LOUD. She would practically YELL when she was on the phone, even if the stereo & tv were not on. I could pretty much hear her downstairs when she was talking on the phone. When she talked normally, she didn't talk loud, but she told me she came from a 'loud family' and they always used to try to out-talk the other to be heard. I didn't believe that until her family came over to visit :eek: I stayed with a friend that weekend. :p

The only other thing that bothered me was that she never asked me to turn anything off when she wanted to watch something. For example if I were sitting at my computer listening to a CD and doing stuff for class, she would turn on the TV a little bit louder than my CD playing.. which is cool.. if she wanted to watch TV all she had to do was ask me to turn off the music.

I ended up getting a private room second semester :D

My roommate was (is) awesome. We have very little in common. She went home (a 45 minute drive) almost every weekend to work (to pay for school). We had few classes together.

We roomed together for 3 years. (Freshman, Sophomore & Junior years). We both got apartments with other people our senior year. She told me about 2 months into it that she wished we would have roomed together again. :)

Still good friends that see each other at least 3 or 4 times a year.

I think the key was that we didn't spend all of our time together. We each met other people & had mutual friends and different friends.

She's awesome. :D

i didnt like mine. we were both freshman, but she was still a year behind me, cause i was already in college for a year. i didnt want to be around her, so i made every effort to stay away from the dorm. she bought a tv for our room and said she wanted us to be able to share it. she always hogged the tv, so i had to go next door to the lounge. that didnt work all the time, cause she would record something on the tv in our dorm, and watch something else in the lounge. neither of the shows i like, so i am thinking 'where the hell am i going to go?' we had two separate lines, yet i would catch her from time to time on my phone:confused: i hated being in that room. i was excited on the last day of school. i never wanted to see her again. our personalities were like oil and water. i dont know what they roommate matching people were smoking when they put us together.

another thing, she was from out of town, so i was excited to see her go home on holidays. especially on christmas,... three weeks without her!!

She was awesome! We were best friends in high school, and we're still close.

One word: Nightmare

I avoided being in my room when she was there... no one in my corridor could stand her either...

texas*princes - she also did that where if i was in there watching tv she would put a cd on... bothered the hell out of me, i stopped watching tv in my room and went to my friends room down the hall b/c we all usually watched the same thing...

I was in a triple... and my roommates were the spawn of the devil.

One of them had the same first name as I have. Whenever someone asked for one of us, she would assume they were asking for her, not me. If someone called that she didn't recognize immediately, she would try to bluff her way through the conversation until she figured out who they were. She once spoke to one of my sorority sisters for 5 minutes before realizing that it was a friend of mine whom she'd never met!

The other one was a total neat freak. Our desks were next to each other, and if I had one piece of paper overhanging her desk by 1/8 of an inch, she said "Do you think you could move that?"

My two roommates were of one race, I'm another. One of my roommates (the neat freak) started dating a guy down the hall from us, who was the same race as they, and basically was a supremacist... if you weren't that race, you weren't worth knowing. He poisoned her mind, and after that she wouldn't give me the time of day.

Finally I complained to the dorm's rooming chairs, and suddenly I had a single :D They had to move off the floor the next year; since they were now in a double, they lost their rank on the rooming list, so they weren't high enough on the list to get a double for their soph year, but there was an open double on another floor. Meantime, I was able to squat and thus kept my single. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

My roomie was awesome!

She was SUPER smart, always studied (she was a good example for me since I NEVER study lol) She was really involved on campus and so was gone alot. When she was around her sister (A XO) would come over and all of us and our 2 suitmates would go shopping, or to some event on campus. We would watch our prime time TV together, and Jerry Springer till the wee hours of the morning. We were also the ones who tore apart our room to make it liveable and comfy (our dorm had modular furniture ;() We also got along really well with our suitmates, so it was really good :) We were like a big family.

Near the end of the year it kind of all blew up as finals approached and all of us were ready to go home for the summer. But all in all I would live with them again. I still talk to my roomie and one of the suitmates.

I really liked my freshman roommate. She was a sweet girl and we had a lot of fun together. We got together regularly after frosh year and always had a great time. Unfortunately, she's always been the type to be way into the guy she's with, so there were lots of times when she backed out on our little group of friends. The last time I spoke to her was when she said she'd come to my wedding, and then, true to fashion, never showed up. Kind of sad, really. :(

Still, living with her was a good experience, and I wouldn't trade the fun times we shared.

My two freshman year roomies were about as different as they could possibly be.

One was a Born Again Christian from Oklahoma, and the other a whisky drinking crazy man from Pennsylvania.

I was somewhere in the middle.

All in all, we got along pretty well. Haven't seen either of them since Freshman year, though.

Mine was one of my good friends. She was a bit neurotic and obsessive compulsive for me, but we managed to make it work. My suitemates were alright. One sorta pissed me off w/ her nasty habits, but the other was great. Too bad she moved out. Sophomore year was hell in the roomie dept. This past year wasn't bad 'cause I was all by myself, until Swissboy moved in w/ me. I kind of like that arrangement.

I did the same thing! One of my best friends from high school ended up living down the hall from me, so we always watched shows together.

My roommate was great.

We were totally different in every way, but we respected that about each other and got along great. She was just a blast to be around. She ended up leaving school the following year, but I lucked out with my roommate.

My freshman roomie was a Miss Everything at her high school. She was OK except for needing total silence when she studied (I hate silence) and moving the furniture in the room when I went away for the weekend without asking me.

Our next door neighbor that she hung out with was much more objectionable - she was the total spoiled Valley Girl only she was from Upper St Clair. I about put her fluffy ass through the wall a number of times.

I didn't have one because I lived at home with the 'rents.

My first roommate was this total freak, who decided that I was the spawn of Satan since I didn't go to Church, so I moved out.

I lived with another girl for two weeks and realized she was a coke addict....:eek: and so I moved down the hall with a girl I thought was nice.

Big mistake, the last girl ended up turning psycho and becoming addicted to meth at the end of the semester. Then she punched me in the face and broke my nose. Blah, stupid dorm roommates! :rolleyes:

Freshman year, they crammed 3 of us into one room. Roomie #1 was super-cool; we talked before getting to college, did everything together, and she wound up being one of my best friends. Roomie #2 was hell-I should have known when I called her before school started-they gave us the names of who we would be rooming with, and mine said Tammy SoandSo. So I call, and asked if Tammy was home-she said, " No! But Tamara is". Ok then. We get to school and she's unpacking her bags, and crisis!! She discovers that , in the packing process, her towels got wrinkled(oh no!)-so she calls her dad and starts screaming at him that her towels are all wrinkled, and how stupid he is to have packed them that way, and what an asshole he is. Roomie #1 and I stood there with our jaws on the ground.

Roomie #2 would also start studying around midnight, when the rest of us were trying to sleep-she would never study any other time-and would get mad and yell at us if we asked her to maybe, study in the lounge when we tried to sleep.

Finally, we kicked her out. Then, when she left, we had alot of room, so we got a fouton couch and had a blast!

Mine was fine... I was probably the "bad roommate" of the two :)

We were completely different at the time... she was your average college freshman... she did good (not great) in classes, she was on the gymnastics team, had a boyfriend in her hometown... whereas I was totally overwhelmed with college. I planned to drop out after 1st semester, was totally freaked out by the idea of people drinking underage(!) LOL... I was REALLY naive, and I think that freaked her out a bit. I ended up staying in school, and we cohabited well... we were never friends, but we didn't get in each others way and we got along fine as I started to loosen up a bit.

Ironically, my sophomore year, the situation was reversed... I was a lot like Annie (my frosh year roommate) and I was living with an upperclassman Jesus Freak. (no offense intended... but she was seriously obsessed. She had pictures of Jesus taped all over her side of the room). I think I would have gotten along great with my frosh year roommate if we'd met a year later.

I don't talk to either of my roommates anymore... pretty much lost touch with them after the school year(s) ended. Annie went to Germany for student exchange, and Wendy (my soph roommate) got married and moved to the backwoods.

My freshman roomie was also my pledge sister although she deactivated and left school junior year. She was pretty, wild and lots of fun. She looked like Madonna (circa 1985) without the rosaries.

I remember one night when we'd already gone to sleep there was a knock on our door and it was another one of our pledge sisters saying the guys from a group called The Cult were downstairs in a limo and did we want to go cruising with them! I didn't feel like getting dressed (and I wasn't really into cruising around with bands anyhow), but my roomie went and they reappeared a couple of days later.

Oddly enough, my mom loved her. She always said she had "a kind heart" :)

My first roommate was hell. She was a compulsive liar (I don't think she told the truth once), and err... hoochie? On move-in day she wore a red mini-dress and threw all of my stuff off of the bed I claimed and then she put her stuff on that side of the room. It was hilarious when she joined the cheerleading team... at first she was a 4-year Varsity cheerleader... then she did it the first 2 years of high school... then she finally admitted she had absolutely no experience. She also had a different guy in the room every week (don't ask why she couldn't just go to their fraternity house...), and one night when I was really really ill (think bedridden) she started jerking a guy off with me in the room! I wanted to kill her. I could tell a whole hoard of stories, but I think you get my point. She moved out almost right after Christmas because I told her I couldn't stand her anymore. She's gotten better though, but I'd still never live with her again.

My second roommate was almost non-existant. She used to commute but figured out ROTC would pay for her room and board and it would save her on gas. She had a boyfriend who moved to town so she was just always there. It was quite the nice arrangement.

Lets see...

First Semester-- I had two actually ( damn BSC and their forced triples :mad: ). Anyways, so I kind of got along with both of them, BUT towards the end, I couldn't stand them and I really don't talk to either of them anymore. First off, I had NO ROOM. I had the the top bunk, half of under the bed, and on top of the closet. Seriously, I slept with my laptop on my bed. One of the roomates, Lets call her M...was...well, hard to explain. She interuppted anything anyone ever said, always talked about her boyfriend ( like "My boyfriends in a band, maybe you heard of them, blah blah blah blah" ). My other one, K , loves to make fun of people but play it off as joking. You shouldve heard the comments she was saying about Greek Life. One thing that really ticked me off about her is one day we were talking about skin color ( and I'm half cape verdean ) and she looks at me and says "You're not black, at all" and I was just like :mad: I don't know why people put up with her.

I left that room because both of them got mad at me because I wouldnt get my flu shot. They felt that if I didnt get the shot then K would die ( because she has diabetes and is more susceptible to colds and stuff ) if I didn't get it. WHEN SHE ALREADY HAD HERS!!

God I cant stand them anymore. I really, cannot hang out with them for more than 15 minutes at a time.


Second Semester-- I moved a few floors up with my friend Steph who I met at orientation last june. Loved her, loved rooming with her :D

And next year, I might be living with Phi Sigs. WOO! :D

I roomed wiht one of allie's sorority sisters (sigma alpha) frosh year and we had a wonderfull time. I really regret that we didnt end up rooming together again our sophmore year but we still talk and now are looking forward to living in our (respective) houses and not being too far to visit anymore!

I love my roomies!
 

I had one roomate and 2 other suitemates my freshman year. My roomate Kate and I contacted each other during the summer, via email and we even talked on the phone. I moved in Sunday the week before school started for rush, and she moved in on Friday, pref day. I come home from Prefs, I'm literally walking in the door and taking my uncomfy shoes off and we meet. It was like Posh Spice (me, in my pref dress) meets Sporty Spice. We soon became best friends, and we often laugh about our first meeting. We thought that we could never possibly be friends. We were always very considerate and let each other have privacy. We can agree on so many things, but are complete opposites. She's an art major, I have no art skills. (She had to help me make my big's paddle!) She is a hoss at sports, I'm the official KD cheerleader. We also became really good friends with our suitemates. We didn't live together our sophomore or junior years (and both had hellacious roomates) but this fall, we're all living together again, in an apartment. I feel really lucky to still have her as my best friend.

I hated my roommate. She was terribly dorky.

She would jump up and down and clap when the phone rang and yell "Phone!!" She'd lay her clothes out for the next day on the ONLY chair we had in our room, with her nasty pantyhoes on top. She had those horrible watercolory posters of women crying heart shaped tears with words like "memories" under them and their eyes would follow me all around the room. Creepy! She'd also write out lyrics to Bryan Adams songs and hang them all over the room, and she dotted the I's with hearts!!

She actually had a boyfriend, who was this geek who went to a different school. A friend of mine and I were hanging out in our room (we had a little study area that was sort of separate from the bedroom part of the room) and THEY WERE HAVING SEX while we were sitting there. I mean, I have no problem with sex, but they were just both so unappealing it was awful.

She also kept the room boiling hot. We'd have extensive wars over the thermostat.

She was from Ackley, Iowa. I somehow heard somewhere that she got married and lives somewhere raising rabbits. There are so many other annoying things she did, but I can't remember any more right now. I just didn't like her at all.

Okay, I had the same roommate the entire year, but it seemed like a different roommate during each semester.

1st semester: We got along fine...both of us had different majors, but we spent time hanging out in the room together. The only bad thing was that her new boyfriend (she broke up with her boyfriend of 3 years within the first month of school) moved in with us and was sleeping in the room every night from November onward.

2nd semester: All was good...until we came back from spring break. I ordered a pizza and shared with her and her boyfriend (I paid for the entire thing) and then when we were done and they had left, there wasn't any room in the refrigerator for the leftovers, so I asked our neighbor if she wanted the rest of it. My roommate was so pissed that I wasn't allowed to put anything in the fridge anymore. She and her boyfriend were messing around on my computer (getting on IM under my name and talking to my friends as if they were me and saying mean and nasty things to them), so I asked her not to use my computer anymore. Her response was to come back and say that she didn't want me using her trash can anymore. She changed the voice mail password on me so I couldn't check for my messages, and I found out over the summer (after bringing my hard drive home in order to go through the files) that her and her boyfriend were using my computer to look at porn sites. Her and I, needless to say, were never on friendly terms after that (and she went Greek our freshman year, and when I went through my sophomore year, I'm sure she said something to her sisters because her sorority was the only one I was cut from after the first round, and I know I had great conversation with them)

My roomate was my best freind from high school. She was going through Rush and Band camp (for marching band) the week we moved in, so I hardly saw her. After she pledged a house, she was still undecided about whether or not to move in to the House or stay in the dorm. A couple days after Bid day, I pledged my house and over labor day weekend, when whe was back home for the weekend, decided to move into my House. When she came back, she decided to move as well, but we didn't do it for 3 weeks. But over those three weeks, it was hell. We were so close that we knew how to press each other's buttons, and we'de do it all the time. By the time we moved to our houses, we were ready to kill each other. Luckily, it was just the living together that had riled us up. Living apart we were fine, and we lived right across the alley from one another, so it was a 30 sec walk to see each other.

My freshman year roommate was a totally random pick, but she ended up being my best friend. Unfortunately, she is in another sorority and we both ended up living at our sorority houses for our sophomore year. I didn't get to see her much at all, but every time I do see her, it's totally friendly. We kinda got wrapped up in our own houses and always said we would hang out, but never really did. It's sad and I definitely miss hanging out with her! Next year... I'm gonna stick to our word.

i had a single my freshman year. i have no idea how that happened but i hated it.

Some of you guys had some crazy roommates!

My roommate was nice. She was a music major and a total perfectionist, so she was ALWAYS doing homework or practicing her clarinet or going to church or something. She wasn't in the room much which was nice. Out of the two of us, I was probably the bad roommate.

Okay, I'm really laid back & can get along with just about anyone, even if I don't like them all that much. But this would have driven me crazy. It also reminded me of the "Pepto Bismol Room".

My sophomore year I lived in a dorm that was a big square- four halls connected together with a common outdoor area in the middle. So we had to walk around the corner to the next hall to go up/down the stairs. And right there was this ENTIRELY PINK ROOM. Complete with stuffed animals on the bed & cutesy posters up. It was like a little girls' room. Walking by when the door was open was like a bad car wreck- you had to gawk.

My freshman roommate was awesome
I had never lived with another black chick besides my sister
I was really nervous due to harsh criticism by blacks in high school
When I met her, she was gorgeous and used to ballet
[she'd walk around our room on her toes all of the time]
I was in awe of her and her friends[so were the guys]
I had never been to a club where mostly black people were
And she took me. . .and I fell in love with hip-hop and reggae
Plus, we never had to stand in line because they would let us in
Her friends would do stuff for me because I was her roommate
Her parents would send us both food and stuff
She let me use her computer and TV
When we argued, it was more like talking loudly to prove a point
[and usually it was over my boyfriend who was a complete a*]
She made me love myself because all through high school I was picked on because I talked proper and liked white boys
She let me know that I could be all of that and still socialize with black people[i thought i was ostracized]
And to find her dead was the most devastating thing to my college career[R.I.P. KRT]
I dropped out for a year and a half
And I refused to move into a dorm


But I had the most fun with her and loved her to death. . .

My first roomate was horrible. She was someone I kinda knew from high school. She was a year ahead of me, and we had been in the high school band together for one year. We were in different social circles, had few friends in common. I moved into her room a week before school starts so we can go to band camp. I find out soon that her nickname is "The Big Nasty". Apparantly she was known for her sexual recreational pursuits. She drank a lot, ho'ed around, and stole. Money, credit card numbers, checks, phone card numbers, from everybody, including me. About month after school started I found out what she was up to. She moved soon after I confronted her, but I still had to get my dad to go over to her mom's house to make her pay me back all of the money she had stolen. Several checks, over $200 in phone calls-it totaled almost $350.

My suitemate then asked if her friend could move in. She seemed nice, so I said yes. My suite then became the unofficial hangout for the entire pledge class of ABC. Day or night you could find them there. It was very hard to study most of the time. And if I came in from a date or a party after what they considered to be "too late" I would find someone asleep in my bed! Thank goodness they moved after Christmas over to the ABC Hall.

The third roommate that year was stinky. She smelled. Bad. All of her belongings, herself, her bed, all had a musky/musty/need-to-wash-the-nooks-and-crannies smell.

I asked for a private room after that.:rolleyes:

My freshman roommate sucked!

Three weeks after school started, she brought some kid (who lived on our floor) home after a party, at around 3 AM. They thought I was asleep (I wasn't) and started to hook up. I guess a little while later, he left to get a condom, but I thought he just left, so I tried to go to sleep. I didn't want to come out and say I was awake, so I tried to give them hints, like knocking the tv control off my night stand, stuff like that. But no, they continued to have sex for the next hour. I had no idea what to do. In hindsight, I would have stood up and screamed bloody murder, but I was a stupid freshman. All the while, she had a boyfriend at home who wanted to wait until marriage to have sex. The relationship didn't last much longer, because about a month after this incident, he came to surprise her and she tried to sneek out of the dorm to go to a party. When she didn't meet him when she was supposed to, he had some people take him to a party, where she was making out with hook-up boy. Let's just say there were fireworks!

Later in the semester, she tried to kill my fish, ripped of my sorority door decorations, destroyed some of my friendships, generally made my life hell. She failed her first semester, and stopped going to class the second, all to spend time with the previously mentioned guy. Needless to say, she didn't come back the next year.

Oh, how I miss her. NOT!

I had a good freshman roommate. Eight students from her HS graduating class came to our college so I met a lot of people through her. We were really good friends. We went through rush together and chose different sororities. We remained good friends.

WC, that's such a tragedy! It sounds like she was a really wonderful person...

My freshman roommate was....
 

the COMPLETE opposite of me.

Our XC coach put us together. I still, till this day, do not know why because he has never done it since. Maybe cause we ended up so horrible.

She wanted to get up at 6am and go to bed at 10am. I stayed up until 2, and slept until 8am for an 830am class. And when she woke up at 6am, she INSISTED on being AS LOUD as HUMANLY POSSIBLE!!!!She went home every weekend, I stayed. I partied, she well, went to bed at 10am. I hated going to practice cause I would have to see her more. We had the same class, and sat on the complete opposite side of the classroom. I spent every waking hour at my friend's down the hall. I literally went to my room to change clothes, sleep, and get books. People started calling my friends room to find me.

I don't hate her now...we still run, but now since I don't live with her, I can tolerate her.

Roomie Horror Stories
 

Don't get me started on this one, but since you have, I will tell you anyway. I spent my freshman year at a two year college in the Adirondacks before I transferred to my Alma Mater. My freshman roommate lasted one semester in school. She would bring to a guy into the room and they would sleep together, I am not sure if they had sex or not. Also, I recalled requesting a nonsmoking roommate when I filled out the application for room and roomie preferences. This was fine until we got close to the end of the semester when her friends got her to smoke. This was around the time that I became violently ill (I recovered fully). She didn't care that I was coughing so hard one of my lungs could have flown out of my body and hit the wall, she just puffed away. Upon returning for the Spring semester, I found out she wasn't returning because was kicked out of school. I opted for a double single.
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Adding my husband's roommate-from-hell story... this is actually from his first year of grad school (does that count?)

As an undergrad, he lived in a dorm that was almost all singles, so he never had a roommate. (Lucky stiff!)

During his first year of grad school, he lived in an on-campus apartment that he shared with 3 other guys. The apartments in this building were all single-sex, and you were just thrown in with random people. The apartment had 4 single bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a lounge.

Two of his roommates were cool... they kept to themselves mostly, and spent most of their time in lab. (Ah, the life of a grad student :) )

His third roommate... well, he was a nice enough guy, and he had some great stories (he'd been in the Air Force and served during the Gulf War) - but he had the most rank B.O. I have ever had the misfortune to be exposed to. You could smell this guy a mile away even if you were upwind of him. When I stayed overnight, I either hit the showers before he did (he did actually shower every day, but he still stank), or I would go back to my own dorm and shower there.

We used to joke about how we had to arrange a visit for him from the Right Guard Fairy...

He was also an Amway salesman, and pretty much ate only their food, because he got a discount. Our theory is that his B.O. was partly due to the fact that he only ate processed food, no fresh fruits, veggies, meats, etc. Ick.

I lived with my sister as a freshman. She's two years older than me. I ended up going to the same school as her, so the summer before my freshman year, my parents bought us a condo to live in. It was actually very cool because my she and I get along just fine.

The only bad roommate I ever had was last summer. I had just moved into my current place. One of my new roommates had sublet his room for the summer to this weird kid. He didn't have a fridge until I moved in, so until then he kept his food in an ice chest (pretty crafty of him). Every time I came home from work, the place reeked of pot. But the thing that got me: he had long since run out of toilet paper in his bathroom. I was in there one day (don't remember why), and what do I see? A stack of napkins sitting next to the toilet. :eek: Needless to say, his stay in our house was cut very short. (Actually, the major reason I kicked him out was because he was actively selling out of our house. The napkin thing didn't help, though.)

I had 2 roommates my freshmen year. #1 was awesome- we were randomly paired together, and at first I thought we had nothing in common. But as soon as I got to know her, I realized what a cool person she was- we got a long great, and I still talk to her on campus now. Unfortunately she moved out after 1st semester due to a problem w/ the management of our dorm. #2 was even better. She was a friend I had gone through rush w/ in the fall, and didn't really like her roomie- so she moved in w/ me in the spring. She was in a sorority (the one I eventually joined), and would always pull for me. We got along great and had lotsa fun. It was just funny because #1 was sooo loud and outgoing, and #2 was sooo shy and quiet- lol, both worked out great :)