These even top most of the stories I’ve seen out here. 
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Worst-Roommate-Horror/237908
The “Big Bang Theory” episode when Sheldon interviews Leonard for the “roommate agreement” is a true classic.
I’m sorry, but NOTHING will ever top the student who could only eliminate in containers, which IIRC then had to be stored in the room until a parent came to pick them up.
OMG @Consolation - is that real?
^Ditto on that! Please elaborate @Consolation!
What about the guy who liked to pleasure himself while standing in the middle of the dorm room?
^I can’t bring myself to click “like”, but that was memorable. :o And not that dissimilar from one of the stories in the article.
The year I transferred college (my junior year), I had FIVE roommates, consecutively. 1) Nice but distant grad student, the location was impossible, so I found a room in a school co-op closer to the main campus with 2) girl who smoked, argued with bf on phone all night, kept TV on 24/7, generally nasty. Moved across hall to 3) very nice girl who eventually switched rooms because her BFF down the hall was stuck midyear with roommate from hell. 4) So I got RMH instead–certified mentally ill, threatened to hurt other people, then me (“I thought you understood, but you’re like all the rest”). This was after multiple times taking her to emergency services, hearing her tell me that evil spirits were entering the room through the window over MY bed, that she needed to defend herself, etc). Never slept in there again, found a room across the hall with 5) perfectly nice woman I roomed with the remainder of the year and all of the next.
Whew. (incidentally, 2 and 4 were both eventually thrown out of co-op for massive rule breaking.)
Garland, I’ve written about my freshman roommate before. That was followed by other awful experiences. Your experiences are worse. I’m not sure how you stood it all.
After reading the article above, I really don’t understand why the res life directors didn’t just pull the parent card and separate the feuding students. They’re obviously children who need a parent to intervene. If’ I’d been in charge, I would have said to each student, “You’re not mature enough to work this out on your own. I don’t care what you want. Student A, you’re moving to this dorm and Student B, you’re moving to that one. I don’t want to hear another complaint about you or you will be expelled.” This type of behavior is completely unacceptable and incompatible with campus life.
I lived in a rooming house for two years of college. Only women lived in the house. Each floor had a shared bathroom and a shared refrigerator and sink. I was mainly amused, not distressed as was at least one housemate, when another housemate decided to store a dead raccoon in the freezer area of the fridge. She was a veterinary school student.
@swimcatsmom @LeastComplicated
Here is the thread that talks about the “box toileter” - enjoy! 
ETA: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17543334#Comment_17543334
@rosered55 with the raccoon in the fridge … That reminded me of my freshman year roommate long ago. She was a bio major with premed hopes. She was dissecting a mink in her anatomy class and would bring it “home” to our room and store it under the bed. Whew! It smelled of whatever it was preserved in. Sometimes she’d take it out and look at it/fiddle with it.
She also got up super early in the morning, singing! And she’d take a midafternoon nap. If I returned to the room during her nap time, she’d complain I was rustling papers too loud.
We lasted a year together, God knows how, with no real fights, just grumblings. Besides the mink, her side of the room was spartan. Mine was highly personalized and decorated (no pineapples, though). Basic incompatibility of decent people.
Dead raccoon in the fridge? My vet student niece would have approved. B-)
My frosh year roomies were memorable. They were… hobbits. Luckily for me, they flunked out after the first semester, and I had the triple to myself.
Have you seen this yet? Roommate issues discussed on the “538” blog. Bodily fluids kept in the freezer …
Um. It doesn’t actually say which bodily fluids. @-)
Well, “Just throw them out” is definitely NOT the right answer! What nerve!!
I vote for “talk to the person.”