I used to go to the University of Minnesota and had requested a double last semester. It was all that I could afford that financial aid could give me so I had no choice but to have a roommate. I have a new roommate now but come to think of it I thought she was somewhat strange. I could be wrong but it was wonderful to have a roommate who wasn’t so inconsiderate or loud.
Let me begin by saying that I did move in first and she came to the dorm the day after the move in date. When we first met, I had two of my friends with me in the same room and they greeted her and I greeted her as well. After a moment of silence, she turned around and left the room.
Weeks after living with her, I started to get to know her schedule and how she was like. She was a very quiet person and I couldn’t hear her most of the time because she was always on her desk studying and not make any noise. The only noise I heard was the ruffling of the paper in the book or her moving around. All she did in the room was study and whenever she had her laptop open, I never saw her watch any TV or do anything else but study for hours on end. She would only leave to go to classes but after that, she would come home in the afternoon and study again. She would study until 10pm and sometimes 1am. My ex roommate mostly stayed in at daytime to sleep or study and leave the dorm only when it’s night time. I don’t see her again until days later and would come home at 6am and leaving past 10pm again the same day. This was her routine. Did I mention that my school roomed me with someone who was 8 years older than I was?
She requested that the room was not loud and not to have any friends over at the dorm while she’s there.
I haven’t seen her with any friends except for one that came in our room twice that semester. I never saw her friend again after that. When I lived with her, I noticed that she never makes any eye contact with me or acknowledges me when I’m in the room. It was like I was invisible to her or that I never existed. She kept saying that she has always wanted us to communicate so that we live in a comfortable space that’ll make us both happy. She’s never openly talked to me about anything that bothered her and was not confrontational or passive aggressive.
Thoughts? Maybe she wasn’t strange but she’s definitely someone I’ve never met before.