Roommate question

PhantomVirgo
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:46:38 +0000

I had the opposite issue my freshman year. One of my roommates was a complete night owl while me and my other roommate were larks. On top of that, I had 8am classes for all three quarters that year, so of course I had to get up pretty early. My other roommate had either 8ams or 9ams every day for each quarter, so again she had to get up pretty early. Anyway, my night owl roommate would come in at around 2-3am on a weekday, turn the lights on, bring her friends in, and talk with them for a half hour or so while gradually getting ready to go to bed. She would do this at at least two nights per week during the week, and would do it pretty much every night on the weekends. If we tried to talk to her about it, she’d get mad at us and tell us that it’s her room too and she could do whatever she wanted. Oh, and then she’d start yelling at us when we were getting up for class because we were disturbing her sleep. She insisted that we should just skip class and sleep in because our schedule went against her schedule, and that we should just stay up until she goes to bed if we didn’t like her coming in so late. Me being a nervous freshman, I didn’t have the guts to go to the RA about it and try to mediate; I just kinda internally boiled. Now I admit that that was a stupid move on my part, and I commend you for taking action to mediate.

It’s completely ridiculous to try to control someone’s sleep schedule just because you’re roommates. And yes, taking a nap is normal, especially in that kind of circumstance. You’ll definitely need to get an RA involved ASAP if she’s really acting like that. In the meantime, is there anywhere else you could potentially go to sleep? A friend’s place, somewhere on campus, something? If she keeps it up despite talking to the RA, I would get out of there as soon as you can.