How was your freshmen roommate? - Page 3

White_Chocolate · #31 06-04-2003, 03:50 PM

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. . .

tcsparky · #32 06-04-2003, 03:55 PM

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.

jess_pom · #33 06-04-2003, 03:58 PM

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!

Peaches-n-Cream · #34 06-04-2003, 04:04 PM

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.

RedRoseSAI · #35 06-04-2003, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by White_Chocolate
And to find her dead was the most devastating thing to my college career[R.I.P. KRT]

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

DolphinChicaDDD · #36 06-04-2003, 05:09 PM

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.

CatStarESP4 · #37 06-04-2003, 05:26 PM

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.

aephi alum · #38 06-04-2003, 05:28 PM

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.

jonsagara · #39 06-04-2003, 05:53 PM

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.

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.)

GiantsChic · #40 06-04-2003, 05:59 PM

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

breathesgelatin · #41 06-04-2003, 06:10 PM

Me and my freshman roommate both pledged Pi Phi, and we live together in the house.

MeLikey · #42 06-04-2003, 06:53 PM

My freshman year roommate and I became better friends after freshman year because we weren't roommates. She and I got along well enough just as roommates, not really as good friends though. I started going out with a guy down the hall so he was always in our room sleeping over and hanging out so she wasn't that cool about it. Plus, she's a neat freak, and I'm not.

APhiRattlerGal · #43 06-04-2003, 06:59 PM

The worst person god created! She was sooo mean! I'm glad she transfered to another school the following year.

ThetaGirl1997 · #44 06-04-2003, 07:07 PM

My freshman roommate ended up being one of my best friends - we were thrown together by the housing dept and had so much i common. We still keep in touch even though it's been about 5 years since we lived together - I'm going to her wedding this weekend!!

sherbertlemons · #45 06-04-2003, 07:24 PM

Uh, a total nightmare? She had major insecurity problems, that she played up beyond belief.

She somehow had the amazing ability to see the light of the computer and hear the clacking of the keys, even with a heavy eyemask over her eyes and a cd playing via headphones. This is with the volume totally muted and with the monitor turned as a far away from her as I could get it. Of course, it was totally impossible for her to sleep under these conditions.

The list goes on and on. I was never more relieved to move!