How was your freshmen roommate? - Page 4

alphaiota · #46 06-04-2003, 07:27 PM

my freshman roommate was awful.

she got up at 6am for her 8am class. she had to always have her hair and makeup perfect. she would get up, get her shower, come back to the room and turn on her ultra bright desk lamp and shine it directly in my face. then she'd turn on her vanity light. worst of all is that she would use her blow dryer in the room while i was trying to sleep.

aside from that she was a complete neat freak. she made her bed every morning before class and kept her closet incredibly neat and orderly.

she always bitched about me to everyone in the corridor, but would never speak to me. i couldn't understand how i could live with someone and never have that person talk to me unless absolutely necessary.

she ended up rushing the same time as me and acted like she was so much better than me cuz she got into ABC and i got into DEF. too bad she ended up deactivating a year or so later.

the best had to be one night that she went to a broomball game with the rest of the cooridor and came back to me locking her out b/c i had my bf there. little did i realize that she had like three exams the next day (which i did feel somewhat bad about)
didn't see or talk to her after freshman year.

sophmore year i had a pretty cool roommate and i was probably not the best roommate. i was really wild by then. we got along pretty well though until one time when i was using her computer and found some saved instant messages between her and our neighbor that were about me. talking about how terrible i was and everything. so we finally got into it one night and i told her i saw it on her computer and she said i deliberately looked that stuff up. (don't leave it out in the open) she and our neighbor were connected at the hip and our neighbor totally influenced her view of me b/c she didn't like me.
things weren't the same after that, but we still talked after that year. in fact i saw her at graduation and still chat online with her sometimes.

shelley j
sigma k

juniorgrrl · #47 06-04-2003, 08:12 PM

My first roomate made drugs...or at least tried to make them.

She seemed really cool at first - we emailed over the summer and seemed to get along well. And the first few weeks of school were okay.

Then she started staying out really late, making wierd friends who she encouraged to walk in our room at all times, sleeping in her clothes and skipping her classes...

I would go home every weekend because I was having a hard time adjusting. I came back to find the room a total and complete mess one weekend. And then the next, and the next. We're talking about food being out for nearly a month. I blew up at her about it and she stopped talking to me after that. I found out through people on my floor that she was going to try and make drugs with paint thinner and sunflower seeds.

I moved the next week. I got put in with an uptown daddy's girl bitch. She needed total silence and darkness to sleep, total silence to study, it would bother her even if i had my headphones on. We tried to have RA mediation, but it didn't work. I moved out after less than a week. I commuted for the rest of the semester.

I had a private bedroom for the rest of college. Had an apt for the last 2 years. Started with some evil roomates, and moved out and moved in with some girls that became some of my best friends

ZTAngel · #48 06-04-2003, 09:02 PM

Mine was ok. We were total opposites which caused a lot of problems. She came from a small, farming town while I came from a big city in South Florida. We just had different views on everything and we had grown up so differently. It was livable, though. We don't talk anymore but we're cordial when we see each other.

AXO_MOM_3 · #49 06-04-2003, 09:28 PM

My first semester roomie had a serious drug problem. She never went to classes and partied all the time. I ended up spending all my time in the dorm study lounge. Turns out the girl across the hall had a psycho/suicidal roommate. She spent all her time in the study lounge too. We ended up putting the druggie and they psycho together second semester and moved in together. We ended up joining the same sorority, and lived together for the next three and a half years! We did not want to take anymore chances on getting another looney!

ToBeSororityGrl · #50 06-04-2003, 09:29 PM

She seemed ok when I received a letter from her before school had started and I had mentioned to someone at work that she was a single child and they were like ohhh no that won't be good at all.

Yeah, she did not like to share very well. She would get up hours before class started and talk online, who IMs at 630 am?? She would then proceed to go into the closet and leave the door open with the light on me, slam the door, slam chest of drawers, and then the worst thing in my life, the spraying started. She had spray deoderant, hair spray, hair mist, and more hair products. After 4 minutes the waft of grossness would proceed to wake me up again after trying to sleep. Then when she would leave to go to class an hour before it started she'd let the door slam shut. No she wouldn't quietly close it since I was sleeping, she'd let it slam! I even asked her to please not do that and she yelled something at me!

Even though we didn't get along real well I'd still invite her to get food with me and my friends or go to the movies or play Monopoly with us. Did she return the favor, no! One day she invited a friend up, they proceeded to order pizza right in front of me, not ask if I'd like to have some or pay for something, they ate it, and then since there were leftovers they asked everyone in the hall if they'd want some besides me. Another time she decided to go out for dinner and she deliberatly asked my best friend (suitemate) if her and her boyfriend would like to go, but not me. Rudeness.

She then started to take over the room. She had a butterfly chair. Nice, someone would be able to sit there, but no she kept it open and always kept clothes in it just taking up space. She proceeded to take over the bottom portion of the closet with boxes of who knows what. She built crate-bookshelves all over the room. I tell you, if there was an empty space anywhere in that room, she'd buy something to occupy it. It really sucked when I bought a chair that someone could actually sit in, and I had no where to put it!!!

Worst part of the whole thing is, after freshmen year I didn't know what to do about housing for sophomore year and since she goes through stages of being nice and then being bitchy, during the housing time she was in nice stage so I thought maybe she changed and it could be ok for another year. I missed the hint where she said she didn't want a friend, but a roommate. What a mistake. I was never so miserable. Thank god I got a single for next year. It sucks to live with someone who won't converse with you and is just so rude!

ajuhdg · #51 06-04-2003, 09:31 PM

I can probably take the cake! I went to a community college my first year of school, but helped my best friend move into the dorms at A&M and visited her often. I had HIGH hopes that my roommate experience would be great! (They got matching bedding and coordinated everything!)

When I got to UH, my roommate had not moved in and I didn't see her until about three weeks into school. She was a couple years older than me and had a child. I soon found out that her primary use for our room was her...er...uh...extra-curricular activities? The worst was one night I was working the admission desk until 9pm. I got in and she and her new math tutor were 'studying'. I grabbed my shower stuff and walked down to the bathroom. When I came back she was strattling this guy (that she'd JUST met) in the chair! They WERE clothed, btw. I was embarrassed and told her that I'd be out of her way in a few minutes...she was like "OH, I don't mind!" YUCK! I was out of there. It was so awful, I was out of there at the end of the semester.

I've had more bad roommates than good! My best roommate (a Chi-O) was my last one, and she and I were only able to live together for eight months! We had such a blast, I could've lived there forever!

aj

AlphaGamDiva · #52 06-05-2003, 12:59 AM

i had my first roomie for 3 wks.....we got along fine minus one minor incident....she wanted to move together to an AC'd dorm, but i was lazy and didn't wanna move....she ended up movin in later with ilovemyglo's lil whereupon they got into this HUGE physical fight where ol' girl straight up bit her leg.....BWAHAHA....so funny to hear her lil tell it......

my next roomie went home every wknd....dated this guy with 2 kids with 2 diff chicks....they did end up gettin married and she's happy, so good for her.

but i was rarely there b/c i basically lived at the b/f's apt.....community shower, or b/f's shower....hmmmm....lemme think.

White_Chocolate · #53 06-05-2003, 10:37 AM

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

the best

alphaiota · #54 06-05-2003, 12:45 PM

i forgot to mention that after my sophmore year i was going to stay in the dorms and just deal. so i went through the room lottery bit and when i was there, getting ready to sign my contract, i met this chick who needed a roommate as well. so we decided to room together. well, found out just days later that this chick was notorious for not showering and being very nasty. one of my sisters had the unfortunate pleasure of rooming with her.
so needless to say i ended up getting my own apt. for my junior year instead of living with this chick.
but then i unfortunately made friends with this psycho chick who i let live with me temporarily until she ended up stealing from me.

yeah, i met some quality people while in school

shelley j
sigma k

ADPiSAI · #55 06-05-2003, 12:49 PM

Reading what a lot of you have said, I feel really lucky!

My first semester roomie was great. We were a lot alike and got along really well. Her boyfriend was a total jerk, and I hated whenever he came over, but luckily that was short lived and my only complaint. She transfered to another school after that semester, and I haven't really talked to her since then, but I had a great time rooming with her.

Second semester, a girl I knew downstairs moved in. To make a long story short... even though I transfered at the end of that year and we don't get to see each other much, she's my best friend, and I don't know what I'd do without her!

starang21 · #56 06-05-2003, 05:28 PM

son was from my high school and played on the football team with me. how come i walked in on dude jerkin' his ish not once but TWICE!!! and the first time, on the real he threw a calc book over his stuff and said to me "Calculus sucks." that went around the floor like wildfire. i ain't talked to this fool in like 3 weeks and these are the first words the moron says to me. i had to quarantine (sp?) the couch for a minute. he might have been mad because i had to kick his ass out a few times using the "guys code of honor" for some QT with a lady friend.

ilovemyglo · #57 06-05-2003, 05:48 PM

My freshman roommate- psycho, so bad that soph year she and her boyfriend decided to pee on each other to get aroused.
Yeah, bad.

starang21 · #58 06-05-2003, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by ilovemyglo
My freshman roommate- psycho, so bad that soph year she and her boyfriend decided to pee on each other to get aroused.
Yeah, bad.

she wasn't 16 at the time and her boyfriend's name wasn't robert was it?

chideltjen · #59 06-05-2003, 08:07 PM

i had two different roomies. my second one i loved to pieces and we got an apt that next year but she had to move back home.

my first roomie was great at first. we seemed to like the same things. she played for the school's soccer team. so she would be gone on trips for weekends or she would go home. but she would skip and sleep thru classes.... come home late at night and let people come in and out of the room for the rest of the night. i never saw her with a toothbrush. her showers were seriously 2 minutes long. at the semester end she decided that she wanted to be a snowboard instructor and dropped out. she then proceeded to break her back on a jump. never heard from her again.

alphaiota · #60 06-05-2003, 09:04 PM

i would have told them to go to the bathroom to do that ####. that's way screwed up!

shelley j
sigma k