Need Advice from Parents on Roommate

cobrat
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:47:53 +0000

I’d second suggestions given by other parents…especially to talk to the RA to deal with the seeming accumulations of disagreements between you and your roommate. Best to get to the bottom of those disagreements through some sort of mediation than to let them get worse for the rest of the term/year.



oldfort:

I don’t understand why you guys are still watching TV, why couldn’t she watch shows on her laptop with an earplug. I don’t know that many college students watch a real TV.



Probably technologically challenged or just don’t want to bother figuring a computer out to watch TV on it. People like her are a major reason why IT personnel are still in business in many corporate and consumer contexts.



lookingforward:

If you were my daughter, well, there wouldn’t be a tv.



Funny. When I was a college freshman(mid-'90’s), I actually had a heated argument with an aunt because SHE kept insisting I “needed” a TV when I was just as strongly insistent that it wasn’t necessary, a distraction from my primary priorities in college, and a colossal waste of space in my dorm.