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Originally posted by adpiucf
(Due to mono, I had to repeat Sophomore Year)... my 4th year or Junior Year....
I moved into an off-campus apartment where I was living rent-free in exchange for planning resident events. They paired me with a freshman and a junior.
The junior was a little odd, and within a semester, she decided to move into a house with friends. One of my ADPi sisters moved in.
The freshman pledged another sorority and we were pretty close friends. It was like having a "Pahellenic" little sis. Or so I thought. I remember having a conversation with her one time that she'd brought up about where you keep things like money and jewelry. Boy was I naiive! I had been stashing my waitressing money in my dresser and depositing it on a weekly basis (BOA's student checking only gave me a few free teller visits a month, and they it would charge you....) so I'd hold onto my cash.
Well, imagine my surprise not too long after that conversation ... I went to pay ADPi dues and rent.... and my $$$ was all but gone!
The girl was being supported by wealthy parents and had plenty of money-- it was infuriating. I confronted her and she denied it, but two of HER sorority sisters (who were close friends of mine) threatened to call her up to their sorority standards board if she didn't fess up and cough up the cash.
What a mess! I ended up having to take financial inactivity in my sorority because I barely had enough money to eat!
Thankfully, senior year was a wonderful living experience and since I have been out of college I have been blessed with some wonderful roommates!
And now that I'm living in TX, I'm in a one bedroom!
For a while I wondered if I'd done something wrong in a past life--- I mean, I'm a neat person, I don't get in other people's business and for the most part, I'm not a remote control hog or someone who takes over the living room with my personal items.
Goodness, sometimes when I miss college I think about those roommates... and then I am so glad to be out! 
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Something similar to this happened to one of my chapter sisters. She was a little too trusting of her roommate (who she had been friends with for a couple years) and ended up having countless things stolen. Her roommate even stole a brand new coat of hers from Famous Barr, proceeded to return it to the store, and keep the money! It has gotten so bad that the girl took almost all of her things home with her parents and locks her bedroom door whenever she leaves the apartment. I even remember her being nervous to leave for a whole night to come to one of our retreats, because she feared something else would be missing when she returned! I can't believe people actually do that!
And now my own story...
I had a random roommate first semester who ended up being HORRIBLE. I am a pretty easy-going person and I can deal with a lot of different types of people, but this girl just got under my skin! She would leave her side of the room a complete disaster and then tell me that it "looked bad" when I left a pair of jeans laying on the floor. We were lucky enough to have our own bathroom. We agreed at the beginning of the semester to switch off cleaning it every weekend. Well, after she didn't clean it for about a month, she proceeded to get our RA, bring her into our room and YELL at me because somehow it all became MY fault that she didn't clean the bathroom. (I know, doesn't make any sense!) She slept all day and studied all night. And she couldn't just have her desk lamp on, she insisted on having EVERY light in the room on. And among countless other things, she and her boyfriend had sex in the room everytime he came to visit! I would try to stay with other friends when he came, but there was a couple of times when I couldn't and they would just proceed to have sex with me in the room!
There was many more other things, but I can't remember them.
After that semester, I moved in with a sister from my pledge class and had a MUCH better semester!