<p>My cousin had a roommate that stayed up almost all night chatting or watching television and resorted to surreptitiously sliping the individual some soporific pills so he have some serenity at night. How does one go about avoinding inconvinient, noisy roommates?</p>
<p>if they give you a survery put down the earliest time for going to bed and choose for your room to be study space. It will make it much more likely to get a person who goes to bed at a normal hour.</p>
<p>good to know, thanks.</p>
<p>Um…definitely my worst roommate experience was when I left campus one weekend, came back and found out a not too long afterwards that my roommate had gotten an STD…from a person who she met once. She moved out shortly after that, and I don’t even know if she’s at the university anymore. </p>
<p>With your specific question though…I have to say I’m one of those night people (though I like to think I’m pretty quiet about it…haven’t had any complaints so far). I second the advice above. Put down the earliest time to go to bed, and designate it as being a place where you want it to be quiet.</p>
<p>At large universities they don’t use that survey to put people together, they just randomly put people together. They give you the survey to think that they are actually putting you with similar habits but they don’t have the time nor patience to do such a task.</p>
<p>I’m sure many on CC have seen this before, but I’ll post it anyway for those who haven’t. This story is always good for a laugh:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wyseguys.com/****tyroomate.asp[/url]”>http://www.wyseguys.com/****tyroomate.asp</a>
(make an educated guess as to what to fill the '*'s with. CC won’t let me post profanity)</p>
<p>Don’t forget to follow the links at the bottom of each page!</p>
<p>The surveys are complete BS.</p>
<p>My freshman year roommate was a complete nutjob. My roommate was racist, homophobic, anti-semitic, sexist… you name it. He was so conservative that he considered Bush to be liberal. He spent 3 hours a day praying. He showered once a week (right before church). He NEVER studied and NEVER went to class–heck, by the end of 2nd semester, he was in the room 24/7. He didn’t have any friends. We could go weeks without saying a word to one another. He went to bed at 4:30am and woke up well after noon. He just sat in front of his computer, posted to religious message boards, and prayed.</p>
<p>Now, I’ll admit that I thought (and still think) that he was probably massively depressed… but honestly? I didn’t care. I just avoided the room as much as I possibly could. Heck, if I HAD told someone my suspicion, nothing would’ve happened–he didn’t believe in antidepressants.</p>
<p>Hahaahahhaha.</p>
<p>LOL i love that</p>
<p>I agree with the people above - the surveys are generally unreliable or not used at all. However, I have a weird roommate story:</p>
<p>One day I walked into the kitchen that I shared with my suitemate, and there were eight knived stuck in the wall. I asked him about it and he asked me if I had a problem with it. I explained that although I did not have a problem with their being knives in the wall, I had a problem with me not knowing <em>why</em> there were knives in the wall. He assured me he wasn’t psychotic (which didn’t help his case), and then I dropped it. Throughout the rest of the year, there would be anywhere between 0 and 10 knives in the wall at any given moment, and there were over 50 knife holes in the wall by the end of the year. Freak.</p>
<p>50 Knife Holes is a good way to lose your security deposit!</p>
<p>Oh my, so that guy just randomly had knives in the wall??? See, at my school, we’d get fined lots of money for having knife holes (I know someone who got fined for accidentally taking paint off the walls when she took down her posters at the end of the year).</p>
<p>why would anyone put knives in the wall? frustration?</p>
<p>thinman that is hilarious.</p>
<p>There was a much more in depth thread already done a while ago. Why is this one featured and not the other?</p>
<p><a href=“http://kadath.org/docread.php?name=Martin_Random[/url]”>http://kadath.org/docread.php?name=Martin_Random</a></p>
<p>OMG READ IT!</p>
<p>Im a roomie, and I stay up late A LOT. Itd oesnt bother my roommate though. Im really quiet. He did, however, hang up curtains on his side of the wall, making a sort of berlin wall to keep light out when im up at night. At first I thought I was being a real prick for staying up late, but then I realized that hes just a real tight a$$. He leaves signs all over the bathroom that we share with two other kids, telling them to clean the f-ing sink and scrub the shower. He even swept my <em>dirty</em> rug the other day, and then attempted to dust every single part of the room, including under my own bed, which meant that he had to move my entire bed. He did this while I was out. Oh, now that I think about it, Im not the annoying roommate after all…HE IS!</p>
<p>I know a roommate that would bring trays of food to the room and would leave them there to rot. Think. Big plates of grease just sitting in our room for weeks. He was also a total slob, clothes would be all over the floor, and borrowed my detergent all the time. He never seemed to buy his own. He would also go out on weekends, over drink and puke in the sink/hog the bathroom with his puking all night. He also lost his keys about 2-3 times (wouldn’t go get replacements right away), constantly calling your cellphone (using up your minutes) so you could come down and open the door for him. I can go on and on for the next 5 pages but I won’t.</p>
<p>^ why didn’t you apply to change roommates?
Aren’t singles available at your school?</p>
<p>That’s awful Oceannightskies. I pray I don’t get a roomate like the ones described above.</p>