How was your freshmen roommate?

[moe.ron]

In honor of another board which ask the same question, how was it?

I had 3, first one dissapeared after one week. No idea what happen to him. 2nd one masturbated a lot and watch porns all day. He freaked me out. He also had a New Kids concert t-shirt. He dropped out 2 weeks later. No idea why. 3rd one was really cool. Loved his hip hop and r&b, he also eventually come to love the Dead and Phish.

[texas*princess]

My freshman roomie was really nice. She was an upperclassmen (I think she was a junior then?) so it was really nice of her to take me out and meet new people & have some fun.

There were only a couple things she did that annoyed me.. like when she talked on the phone, she talked LOUD. She would practically YELL when she was on the phone, even if the stereo & tv were not on. I could pretty much hear her downstairs when she was talking on the phone. When she talked normally, she didn't talk loud, but she told me she came from a 'loud family' and they always used to try to out-talk the other to be heard. I didn't believe that until her family came over to visit I stayed with a friend that weekend.

The only other thing that bothered me was that she never asked me to turn anything off when she wanted to watch something. For example if I were sitting at my computer listening to a CD and doing stuff for class, she would turn on the TV a little bit louder than my CD playing.. which is cool.. if she wanted to watch TV all she had to do was ask me to turn off the music.

I ended up getting a private room second semester

[SilverTurtle]

My roommate was (is) awesome. We have very little in common. She went home (a 45 minute drive) almost every weekend to work (to pay for school). We had few classes together.

We roomed together for 3 years. (Freshman, Sophomore & Junior years). We both got apartments with other people our senior year. She told me about 2 months into it that she wished we would have roomed together again.

Still good friends that see each other at least 3 or 4 times a year.

I think the key was that we didn't spend all of our time together. We each met other people & had mutual friends and different friends.

She's awesome.

[smiley21]

i didnt like mine. we were both freshman, but she was still a year behind me, cause i was already in college for a year. i didnt want to be around her, so i made every effort to stay away from the dorm. she bought a tv for our room and said she wanted us to be able to share it. she always hogged the tv, so i had to go next door to the lounge. that didnt work all the time, cause she would record something on the tv in our dorm, and watch something else in the lounge. neither of the shows i like, so i am thinking 'where the hell am i going to go?' we had two separate lines, yet i would catch her from time to time on my phone i hated being in that room. i was excited on the last day of school. i never wanted to see her again. our personalities were like oil and water. i dont know what they roommate matching people were smoking when they put us together.

another thing, she was from out of town, so i was excited to see her go home on holidays. especially on christmas,... three weeks without her!!

[AchtungBaby80]

She was awesome! We were best friends in high school, and we're still close.

[mu_agd]

One word: Nightmare

I avoided being in my room when she was there... no one in my corridor could stand her either...

texas*princes - she also did that where if i was in there watching tv she would put a cd on... bothered the hell out of me, i stopped watching tv in my room and went to my friends room down the hall b/c we all usually watched the same thing...

[aephi alum]

I was in a triple... and my roommates were the spawn of the devil.

One of them had the same first name as I have. Whenever someone asked for one of us, she would assume they were asking for her, not me. If someone called that she didn't recognize immediately, she would try to bluff her way through the conversation until she figured out who they were. She once spoke to one of my sorority sisters for 5 minutes before realizing that it was a friend of mine whom she'd never met!

The other one was a total neat freak. Our desks were next to each other, and if I had one piece of paper overhanging her desk by 1/8 of an inch, she said "Do you think you could move that?"

My two roommates were of one race, I'm another. One of my roommates (the neat freak) started dating a guy down the hall from us, who was the same race as they, and basically was a supremacist... if you weren't that race, you weren't worth knowing. He poisoned her mind, and after that she wouldn't give me the time of day.

Finally I complained to the dorm's rooming chairs, and suddenly I had a single They had to move off the floor the next year; since they were now in a double, they lost their rank on the rooming list, so they weren't high enough on the list to get a double for their soph year, but there was an open double on another floor. Meantime, I was able to squat and thus kept my single. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

[Allie]

My roomie was awesome!

She was SUPER smart, always studied (she was a good example for me since I NEVER study lol) She was really involved on campus and so was gone alot. When she was around her sister (A XO) would come over and all of us and our 2 suitmates would go shopping, or to some event on campus. We would watch our prime time TV together, and Jerry Springer till the wee hours of the morning. We were also the ones who tore apart our room to make it liveable and comfy (our dorm had modular furniture ;() We also got along really well with our suitmates, so it was really good We were like a big family.

Near the end of the year it kind of all blew up as finals approached and all of us were ready to go home for the summer. But all in all I would live with them again. I still talk to my roomie and one of the suitmates.

[RedRoseSAI]

I really liked my freshman roommate. She was a sweet girl and we had a lot of fun together. We got together regularly after frosh year and always had a great time. Unfortunately, she's always been the type to be way into the guy she's with, so there were lots of times when she backed out on our little group of friends. The last time I spoke to her was when she said she'd come to my wedding, and then, true to fashion, never showed up. Kind of sad, really.

Still, living with her was a good experience, and I wouldn't trade the fun times we shared.

[DeltAlum]

My two freshman year roomies were about as different as they could possibly be.

One was a Born Again Christian from Oklahoma, and the other a whisky drinking crazy man from Pennsylvania.

I was somewhere in the middle.

All in all, we got along pretty well. Haven't seen either of them since Freshman year, though.

[swissmiss04]

Mine was one of my good friends. She was a bit neurotic and obsessive compulsive for me, but we managed to make it work. My suitemates were alright. One sorta pissed me off w/ her nasty habits, but the other was great. Too bad she moved out. Sophomore year was hell in the roomie dept. This past year wasn't bad 'cause I was all by myself, until Swissboy moved in w/ me. I kind of like that arrangement.

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by mu_agd
texas*princes - she also did that where if i was in there watching tv she would put a cd on... bothered the hell out of me, i stopped watching tv in my room and went to my friends room down the hall b/c we all usually watched the same thing...

I did the same thing! One of my best friends from high school ended up living down the hall from me, so we always watched shows together.

[Lady Pi Phi]

My roommate was great.

We were totally different in every way, but we respected that about each other and got along great. She was just a blast to be around. She ended up leaving school the following year, but I lucked out with my roommate.

[33girl]

My freshman roomie was a Miss Everything at her high school. She was OK except for needing total silence when she studied (I hate silence) and moving the furniture in the room when I went away for the weekend without asking me.

Our next door neighbor that she hung out with was much more objectionable - she was the total spoiled Valley Girl only she was from Upper St Clair. I about put her fluffy ass through the wall a number of times.

[AOX81]

I didn't have one because I lived at home with the 'rents.