<p>Depends on the school. My school takes no information from you but smoking preference. One school I applied to had a several page survey.</p>
<p>Omg, Gotakun. Your roommate’s horrid habit of over-pressing the snooze button is MY PROBLEM. ;___; My roommate is going to hate me, LOL. Especially cause I have an 8 AM class MTW. With 2 weeks til the semester starts, I should practice waking up when it FIRST rings.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman this year…
- My roommate was quite rude to me when I moved in. She didn’t want to hang out on the first day and didn’t bother to go through the “getting to know you” process. We never fully established an open line of communication.</p>
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<li><p>My roommate parties a lot. Even on weekdays. She comes in completely wasted at 3am, puking and causing a lot of noise. She even keeps alcohol/drugs in the room, which leaves me uneasy. Roommate won’t discuss the issue.</p></li>
<li><p>I commented on my friend’s Facebook wall that I don’t mind my roommate because she’s gone a lot, and thus, I have the room to myself to study (this was on day 3 of college living, I hadn’t experienced the subsequent issues yet). My roommate saw this comment the next day and flipped out at me because “I portrayed her as a party girl”. </p></li>
<li><p>Roommate already breached privacy with me. She “borrowed” my cell phone while I was showering to text her friends (she deleted all my sent and received messages, which means she didn’t want me to see what she wrote) AND logged onto my laptop, which has my FB and email login info saved, and read my messages. And she has the nerve to tell me that’s how she found out about issue #3.</p></li>
<li><p>Roommate drank a whole CASE of water in five days. We weren’t even here a week yet, and she was opening up my second case. I explained to her that I bought the water and I don’t want to share without compensation, because I am supporting myself through college and these extraneous expenses really add up.</p></li>
<li><p>Roommate helped herself to my printer to print an e-book. 67 pages with full-page, colored illustrations!</p></li>
<li><p>Roommate is very messy. She overpacked and has all her crap on our floor. Plus, she hasn’t done laundry in the two weeks or so that we’ve been here.</p></li>
<li><p>Roommate has random, creepy guys over. I mentioned to her that I feel uncomfortable around guys that I don’t know hanging out in our room. Roommate ignores me.</p></li>
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<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>At stealthx, what school do you go to??? Are you making this stuff up, because I really can’t even imagine a person who would be that ignorant and inconsiderate…</p>
<p>My roommate and I have spoken maybe twice since moving in two weeks ago. We even see each other quite often at the cafeteria and never acknowledge each other. He gives me the dirtiest looks all the time; I think he’s a pretty swell guy but he hates the crap out of me.</p>
<p>@overachiever92, do not underestimate how insanely disrespectful and inconsiderate some people can be. Similar to stealthx, my roommate was almost always gone. During orientation I was always lonely in my room because she was spending time with her boyfriend. Then her boyfriend started to come to visit HER and she’d have him sleep over without even telling or asking me anything (and in our roommate contracts we agreed to only have overnight guests if we asked the other about it first). Anyway, I told her I wasn’t comfortable having a guy practically living in my room (she used to give him her key and I’d open the door and he’d just be there) because he used to stay for upwards of 4 days per week. He stopped coming over for a while and then after the Christmas holidays it started again… so I talked to her about it <em>again</em> and it stopped and guess what? It started again! But this time, she used to wait for me to sleep and then tell him to come over and she’d attempt to have him leave before I got up… By this time I was completely fed up and brought a staff member to talk to her about it… and then she stopped living in our room 
She essentially lived at her boyfriend’s (who is a 45 minute drive away) so he dropped her off every morning and came back every evening to take her with him. So I had the room to myself which I LOVED. Needless to say, she had almost no friends on campus because she was always with her bf and there are still people in our dorm (which had about 90 people) that still don’t know who she is.</p>
<p>Another girl that I knew, was sexiled almost everyday by her roommate. After a while she gave her roommate her schedule and told her “ok this is when I’ll be in class, do whatever you want then, but I want to be able to come in my room at any other time.” Of course, even though her roommate and her bf already had sex twice a day, they were clearly so horny that twice a day wasn’t enough and this poor girl was always locked out, sleeping in the lounge or computer cluster waiting for them to finish. As if that wasn’t bad enough, sometimes while she was in her bed sleeping, her roommate’s bf would come in and they’d start doing it with her in the room!</p>
<p>@stealthx: (If you’re being serious: ) The behavior of your roommate will just add unnecessary stress to your already full hands - studying hard for your college classes, for instance. Although it may seem like a lot of trouble, talk to your RA (or the authority in charge of Housing) about your situation and how you tried to resolve it with your roommate numerous times with no avail – you’ll thank yourself later. And it’s a good idea to password-protect your laptop. Good luck!</p>
<p>I think I’m probably the only guy on this thread… :P</p>
<p>^ I know a few guys who had roommate problems. You’re not alone. But yes, it does seem like the girls have the most roommate problems :p</p>
<p>If I had seen this thread last semester, I would have been spilling my guts out about my roommate. I can’t complain about my roommate this year. I’d be shocked if I encounter any major problems like bringing random people or coming in drunk/high. So far so good :knocks on wood:</p>
<p>My roommate sexiled me last night. Otherwise I really have no complaints as of yet. She’s a pretty nice person.</p>
<p>@stealthx: Please tell me you are exaggerating or at least recalling incidents that happened to people you know. I would have asked for a room switch by #2. I think if I encountered #4, I would have had to been escorted out of the dorm and placed somewhere else. I don’t like when my own parents invade my privacy. That is beyond ridiculous and rude.</p>
<p>I am telling the truth! I’m moving over the weekend to a new dorm that opened up. I ended up reporting my roommate for drug use (as well as the other issues). The building supervisor, who oversees the RAs, barely believed me too! But after two weeks, everything happening to me was beyond ridiculous.</p>
<p>I go to Penn State.</p>
<p>^ Oh man. I was kind of hoping you were exaggerating, lol. But that sucks :(</p>
<p>Hopefully you’ll have a better experience in your new dorm.</p>
<p>Stealthx I go to Penn state and my roommates awful too haha</p>
<p>Ooh, I want to complain!</p>
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<li><p>My roommate doesn’t say anything to me at all. She won’t say anything unless there’s some issue that concerns me. I have tried to start conversations, I’ve complimented her music taste, and so on, but she gives responses like “Really?” and won’t say anything else. I know it’s not because she doesn’t talk at all, because her friends come over sometimes and she speaks freely with them (of course). I don’t need (or want, really) to be best friends with her or anything, but I wish that she would respond better when I try to talk to her so that I don’t feel like I’m sharing an intimate space with a complete stranger. Which I really do feel like that, and it bothers the crap out of me.</p></li>
<li><p>She won’t lock the door sometimes. Our dorm is one where the residents already know each other, and seem to be trusting of one another. That’s fine and dandy, but still, in my opinion a dorm is a dorm, and when you neglect to lock your door, thinking “oh we all love each other!!1!!1!” that’s when your stuff goes missing. Better safe than sorry, and I wish she’d be considerate about it, seeing as it’s not just her belongings in there.</p></li>
<li><p>She is rude! Not in a saying-mean-things kind of way, but in a non-verbal way. She will not. say. excuse me!! Like, the fridge is next to my bed. If I’m sitting on the rug in a way that sort of obstructs her path, she’ll just walk on over and try to access it. I move out of her way anyway, but you should just say excuse me, you know? Like, dang…it’s common courtesy. Your mouth isn’t glued shut, so you need to open it and be polite when you should! She also won’t say excuse me if I’m getting something from my closet (which is near the door) and she needs to go outside. It’s pretty irritating.</p></li>
<li><p>She’s inconsiderate when I’m trying to sleep. We don’t have to go to bed at the same time or anything. But she acts like even though I’m sleeping, she can do whatever the hell she likes and make noise as she pleases. Using the microwave, banging the door…she’ll even be watching things at night on her computer and be laughing loudly about whatever she’s watching. One time, she even had three super-bright lights on, one of which is right in front of my bed. Aghhhhh.</p></li>
<li><p>This one is not really terrible or anything, but…she never makes her bed. I know that many people don’t do this or really see a need to. That’s fine, it’s personal preference. And truly, I’m not a neat freak by any means. But our room is small enough, we don’t need to make it feel smaller by not keeping things neat. I feel a little crazy when I look over at her side of the room. Bed all unmade, belongings awry and helter-skelter. I guess I just wish I had gotten a roommate who placed a little more value on being neat.</p></li>
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<p>I could have it worse. Even though she won’t talk to me and she’s a stranger, she’s not mean (outwardly, at least) or particularly disagreeable. And she may not be neat, but she’s not smelly or dirty. But I hope to never repeat this experience!</p>
<p>I can definitely feel you on number 5. My roommate and I were pretty neat EXCEPT that she never made her bed. It really, really bugged me too because a room could never look neat with an unmade bed and when I sat on my side, I’m the one who had to look at the mess! Haha. But there’s not much that can be done about it.</p>
<p>With respect to number 2 and 4, you should talk to her about it. The room is being shared between both of you and if you don’t feel comfortable having your door unlocked, tell her to keep it locked. When people get too trusting is when things start to go missing. Some people in my dorm last year couldn’t bother with the hassle of constantly locking their doors and food, make-up, clothes etc. started disappearing. And she needs to be more respectful of you. If you’re sleeping and she’s making noise, tell her you’re trying to sleep and ask her if she can please keep it down. If the light is on and you can’t sleep because of it, let her know. You can also invest in a sleeping mask to make life easier.</p>
<p>You can also talk to her about number 3. It might be awkward but just say, “Hey do you think you can ask me to move next time you need to get something out of the fridge instead of crossing over me?”</p>
<p>The first one, I don’t know what to tell you. There are some people who don’t really want to get to know everyone and it’s unfortunate.</p>
<p>What roommate, I don’t have a roommate. Oh you mean the neighbors down the hall. Well… on any given day they play their music loud… yeah and then I close the door. Did i mention that i’m living in a pre-war hotel transformed into a residential hall. I love peace on demand. and Singles FTW.</p>
<p>Amandarin, what hall do you live in?</p>
<p>I live in East- Geary now. I’m not a fan of East halls because of the noise.</p>
<p>I have multiple people in the marching band on my floor. At the moment I am listening to a clarinet practice. I suppose not as annoying as it could be, but not particularly pleasant.</p>
<p>^—Just how wide is your bed, perhaps consider a loft. hehe—^</p>
<p>Unless you are… Nahh</p>