Just wow.
Thanks…hilarious!
Those two girls need to RUN!
I wouldn’t want to be the RA on that hall.
This is the article in People…which has more of the exchange. Just wow is right! Threats, acknowledging she has anger issues and will explode…I’d be advising my kid to not move in with that nonsense. Wonder how UCLA views this???
http://www.people.com/article/ucla-freshman-shares-email-prospective-roommate
A triple is hard enough! How awful to be matched with a roommate who describes herself as a ticking time bomb.
Don’t read the comments in the linked article unless you want to see the “deplorables” coming out of the woodwork.
Parents of all 3 must be so proud of their kids for bringing it to social media.
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Yeah, I don’t understand why this needed to be put on twitter. The first roommate is out of line, and I would have encouraged my D to request a change immediately. But I don’t think putting it on Twitter would have even occurred to me as an option to reject.
I find the current “tell all” philosophy to be really awful. My sister thinks it’s appropriate to discuss family conflict on her Facebook, where of course, no one will ever see the other side of the story. It’s mind boggling to me why this is considered to be even remotely appropriate.
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By now, those of college age should realize that just about anything can wind up on social media. If they haven’t learned that lesson, they haven’t been paying attention.
The affected roommates are lucky in that ‘crazy girl’ outed herself before any actual physical contact occurred.
Wow… indeed. Clearly the girl making all of the demands is in dire need of a single. Had my daughter received such an email, we would be looking immediately for a solution that does not include “Miss Entitled”. Life is way too short to spend a full school year of it stressed out over a self-professed “ticking time bomb” of a roommate…
The one roommate sounded unbearable, but to put it on social media – now the “good” roommates have just guaranteed that they will have an awful experience. There’s no need to humiliate the “bad” roommate like that. Just request a new roommate and move on. I would never want my kids to take these kinds of disputes to social media, ever, ever.
One of my first thoughts was that the demanding girl purpose was to build her case for getting a single - maybe she thought the Uni would step in and give her one once her roommates ratted on her.
^^that’s what I was thinking (she’ll end up with a single which is exactly what she wanted probably).
“… One UCLA freshman made some demands to her two roommates she hadn’t yet met, in an e-mail that has since gone viral … The e-mail includes demands mainly centered around the bed and closets. It says, ‘I’ll take the top bunk bed that has a bottom and top bunk bed. I DO NOT want the single bunk where it has a desk underneath the top bunk, so don’t try to leave me that.’” …
So there!
Nightmare…those are the ones that cut you into little bits while you are sleeping. Choose your bunk wisely.
Wow, just . . . wow. I want to hear more on how this situation is resolved.
Have you seen this news story? An UCLA freshman sent her list of demands via email to her new roommates before even meeting them…
I would not recommend posting such an email to social media online, but wow - what nerve to send the demands in the first place…
Didn’t we all discuss a similar horrible roommate story last year, here on CC. I don’t remember all the details, but the “good” roommate was asked to do things like turn the lights off, not bring any friends into the room, stealing food etc. If I recall, the demanding roommate ended up leaving school.
We hear stories like this on CC every fall. Sometimes it’s really hard to switch roommates – most colleges won’t just switch roommates just because you ask, and work hard to keep them together. Bringing this to discuss anonymously on CC makes sense – putting it on an open Twitter account is irresponsible. I used to be a journalist, and I would not have recommended printing/broadcasting something like this story. This is a private matter that should be resolved by the University and not by the media. This person sounds like a piece of work, but I still don’t think she deserves to be publicly shamed.
“Ashly” doesn’t strike me as a needs-a-single student. She strikes me as an admissions mistake. I feel for the tens of thousands of qualified students who didn’t get into UCLA. What a waste.