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I had awesome summer & fall roommates my freshman year, but then when the fall roommate had to move home for family reasons, I was sent a new girl with NO warning at all.
Don't get me wrong, I get that they will give you another roommate, but some girls in my building had empty rooms since November and she stuck this girl with me!
So she walks in at like 7 am one morning.... speaking VERY loudly to two other people in KOREAN. Didn't even knock on the door, when seconds before I was changing!
I have no problem with cultural situations, having spent time in Europe myself as part of a program, but wow this girl and I did not mesh. I don't even think it was just cultural other than a few things.
One... she stayed up til like 3 EVERY NIGHT and had to have ALL of the lights in the dorm on to do her homework. I meanwhile had a 20-hr a week job & 18 credits I needed sleep for. I could have dealt with that if she didn't also get phone calls at 6 am every morning she wouldn't hear (idk how it was so loud. I'd yell and she wouldnt wake up) that would go on for a least 15 minutes every single morning until she finally got up and answered it. When she got ready in the morning, she would slam all of the doors/drawers.
I have a long distance boyfriend, and male friends that I study with. She wouldnt let them in the room at all. I understand this is a cultural thing and I made arrangements for my boyfriend and I to sleep elsewhere when he came, but if we went out to eat or something, he couldnt even come in to put leftovers in my fridge. He had to stand in the hallway. And my friend I studied with couldn't even drop off my book. without her getting upset. It just made things annoying. But I get this as a cultural difference.
Mostly it was the her abusing my sleeping patterns SO much that bothered me. I ended up in the hospital freshman year from like exhaustion and other things related to lack of rest. When I came home (stuck in bed all week, no classes, I couldn't even make it down the hall to the bathroom without being in pain from a pneumonia like virus) she STILL didn't give me respect with letting me sleep.
And my room, which was always clean, always smelled nice whenever I had my old roommate, STUNK. ALL THE TIME.
Ugh it upsets me so much.
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