Freshman year, I didn't have any huge problems with my roommate until the end of the year when we were moving out. She IM'd me while I was at work to tell me that she and our suitemates had decided who was going to do what as far as cleaning the bathroom. Maybe I'm just extremely stubborn, but I cannot stand when other people make my decisions for me, so I was quite angry about that. She also moved out before I did, and I wasn't there when she left. I got back to the room to find all kinds of dirt swept onto my side of the room. So when I moved out, I cleaned it up, but the RA charged me for dust bunnies under my roommate's bed! I was getting charged for the mess SHE left! I'm convinced that the RA didn't like me... she never was very nice to me, and I have no idea why.
Next I had a really quiet roommate who I got along with pretty well on the surface. We never fought, but there were little things that grated on my nerves that I just kept quiet about. She would have her mom and her sister and her 6-year-old niece up in the room all the time without even telling me they were coming. And they were really loud too, so if I was studying when they showed up, I had to go down the hall to the study lounge. Her sister would also call her sometimes at 6 am, and instead of being polite and saying she'd call her back because her roommate was trying to sleep, she'd sit there and talk to her, and not in a whisper either! And then her boyfriend was in the room quite a lot, also with me having no prior knowledge that he would be there. I had no reason to dislike him, but for some reason he made me nervous.
So last semester I lived with one of my sorority sisters. We got along for the most part (in fact we're living together this year too, and we may even get an apartment together after we've both graduated). But again there are little things that annoy me. For one thing, she stays up REALLY late every night, and I had 8 am classes every day so I liked to get to bed at a decent hour. That was okay because she would just go down the hall and hang out until she was ready to go to bed. But she wasn't very quiet when she came back into the room. She'd throw stuff around, and she'd get on the computer. She has a mouse with one of those scrolling things in the middle... fine except it was really loud!
Also one night (a Thursday night, and let's not forget my 8 am classes) I was so sick but we had to take our littles out that night. My roommate is 21 so while we were at the restaurant, she of course got drunk. Then she told me that she was going to be really loud when she came back that night because she was so drunk. Here I am, so sick I don't even want to be there, and she's telling me that I'm not going to be able to sleep when we get back. She can be really selfish and insensitive sometimes! Wow, just writing this all out, I don't know how I'm going to get through another year with her!
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