<p>First semester freshman year my roommate had a nervous breakdown. Over six weeks she became withdrawn and then catatonic. I did what I could to cheer her up thinking she was just unhappy being away from home. I spoke to my RA & to the house faculty advisor who both told me to give her time to adjust, and advised me to stop being so judgmental of my roommate. I went to the Dean of Students who said: “dear, ALL freshmen would like a single room, but that just isn’t possible.” </p>
<p>I brought my roomate to our campus center for ice cream one day and bought her a cone. (What freshman doesn’t live for ice cream)? She sat with it dripping over her hand, and when I encouraged her to eat a bite she pushed the cone in her face and never moved her hand. The other kids we sat with that day helped me clean her up & bring her back to our room.</p>
<p>A day or so later her parents called and asked me how their daughter was. Even as a 17 year old I understood that the combined wrath of my RA, my Faculty Advisor, and the Dean of Students paled in comparison to the seriousness of my roommate’s condition. I told her parents I thought they should come see their daughter. Today. </p>
<p>Four hours later they arrived on campus. One brief look at their daughter, and they packed up all her belongings in record time, and brought her home. She spent several months recovering at an inpatient facility.</p>
<p>Her parents sent me a kind thank you note and the Dean of Students apologized for not listening better. There was no such thing as a mental health professional on campus in those days. </p>
<p>That roommate was replaced with a mid semester transfer student who was older (mid twenties) and wild. She actually did parade around the room naked, and was sexually promiscuous. She was pretty revolting, but I survived the experience and got a regular roommate after the holidays. The rest of my roommate experiences were good.</p>
<p>One of my roommates last year (I had two) was really … err promiscuous to put it mildly. She had at least 5 boyfriends last year alone, none of which she knew beforehand. So that’s 5 newly minted boyfriends which at various times she dumped because they were jerks apparently. She had so much drama in her life that I don’t know how she coped with it, but sometimes she would just randomly cry about them. On top of that, she would walk around naked pretty frequently. Um… she was a nice person, but it was just a little weird for me and my other roommate. Luckily we both had top bunks so we could focus our attention … um elsewhere. But I wouldn’t say that this was a roommate horror experience because my other roommate (who is more brave than I) nicely asked her one day if she’d please not do that … ever. And she stopped with her strange antics. Happy to say that I’m now in an apartment with an awesome roommate !</p>
<p>My university is extremely small as far as they go, and only about 8-10% of all enrolled students actually stay on-campus. There’s only two dorms, and one is part of a living-learning service program you elect to take your freshman year (i was a part of it). </p>
<p>They give a really detailed roommate match form, and most of the time they do okay (they’ve gotten about a 90% positive feedback). They also make every roommate sit down and sign a roommate contract, which gives you a chance to gauge what you’re roommate’s going to be like, and it also gives you the start of a paper trail should huge disagreements or the need for a room switch occur. </p>
<p>At any rate, I had a horrible roommate the first semester of my freshman year. She never went to class. her parents had a lot of money and gave her all sorts of expensive things that she dirtied up and left on MY side of the room. She had a boyfriend that came over every day, especially when I had late classes. He threw away one of my plates, and used all of our things while he was there. They would fix complicated meals in our small kitchen and leave the dirty dishes in the sink. I would find them on the couch asleep every time I came in. She stayed out for days at a time, and came in at 4 am. She eventually got kicked out.</p>
<p>One horrible early-morning experience: I had two midterms that I stayed up later than usual to study for. I went to sleep at 3 am and she hadn’t come in - no biggie, at least i would have the room to myself. The front door was next to our kitchen, which had a large window facing outward. At 4am, I hear the screen on the kitchen window rustle. I struggle to wake up b/c I’m extremely tired. I think to myself that if it’s actually a burglar, then I’m going to have to die b/c I won’t stop him. The screen pops off, and i hear all of our blinds rustle, and then there’s a large thump. It turns out my roommate locked herself out of the room, so instead of calling the room or getting an RA, she breaks the window and falls on her butt in the kitchen! I didn’t laugh then (I mean it was midterms!), but I laugh every time I think about freshman year now.</p>
<p>actually me and my roommate has been getting along really well… the funny thing is i met her through college confidential. haha</p>
<p>Well she wanted to room with me because we were both korean and didn’t want to be roomed with totally random people. (but before i actually agreed, i checked the bed time, how clean she keeps her room what music she liked and all that…)</p>
<p>it has been working quite nicely… and alot of her friends are now my friends.</p>
<p>“Well she wanted to room with me because we were both korean and didn’t want to be roomed with totally random people”
me and my roommate roomed together because we’re white and didn’t want to get in with any muds lke you!</p>
<p>oh its all cool though i made sure we listened to the same white power music too. lol we both liked the same death to asians song can you believe it?</p>
<p>Geez dont be an ass. I was just saying she thought we would have closer preference in music, food, shows, etc since we both grew around similar environments… </p>
<p>And she also wanted to somebody to hang around with her at Korea Town.</p>
<p>And Korean is not a race. It’s a nationality… ***.</p>
<p>Stop hijacking/■■■■■■■■ this thread Captain Acid. </p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with finding roomates that have similar cultural backgrounds.</p>
<p>Also, there is nothing wrong with White Supremacists rooming together, if that’s what your ridiculus sarcasm referring to. People should have the freedom to room with those whom they feel comfortable with. No matter what the reason. Get your head out of the gutter Acid.</p>
<p>and what exactly is inherrently wrong with self segregation? So what if people feel more comfortable amonst their own race/nationality? Who are they hurting? I mean gosh, it’s just a dorm.</p>
<p>good god they’re not taking it seriously. they’re not discriminating against anyone or saying other races are bad. If that’s what they’re comfortable with, that’s what they’re comfortable with, and i don’t understand why they have to LIVE outside of this comfort zone when they don’t have too, just because it seems “medieval”</p>
<p>What’s wrong with living with people who has similar life styles? I lived in a southern state with a very low asian population before I moved to LA btw so it’s not like I always hung around in a huge asian group like many did. (in fact i didn’t have any asian friends at high school because there wasn’t that many asians)</p>
<p>Also living with people with similar life style is just so much simpler… I lived with my best friend of 7 years for 2 years and that KILLED me. (I still love her as a friend but living with her… was not a good idea. We just grew up too differently and different lifestyles. My friendship with her grew still but it made me realize alot of things about her…) I only stayed because i had nowhere else to go. Whether or not it’s medieval, i rather live with people i am comfortable around. (it’s not like i am living with my roommate because she’s only korean. I asked her alot of questions before I actually agreed (bed time, noise level tolerence etc) if we disagreed on any of those, i would have not agreed whether she’s korean or not…</p>
<p>After a football game,I went to my dorm room with my mom, and found my roommate and his gf having sex. I closed the door as fast I can and said, “Mom, care for a tour of the men’s washroom?” She knew what was going on behind door No.1.</p>
<p>Meh, first months of school, I got roomed with some white boys in the country. Somewhat racist, not overtly so. One of them smoked. The other played WCIII and they all trash-talked like crap, stayed up till 3 in the morning. Really wasn’t that bad, watched a bunch of good movies, chilled a lot, avoided the room a bit (partly because we had NO room at all, and I didn’t have a laptop yet). </p>
<p>Now I’ve moved, and quite ironically, I now stay up until 3 in the morning because I choose to (on school nights). -_- Having a blast though.</p>
<p>I’m beginning to have some difficulties with my roommate… she is ridiculously organized, and it’s not the good kind of organized where it trickles over to your side… when she cleans, like vacuums and swiffers, she only does her side. Like she vacuums down a line in the middle of the room. For the first couple of months, we had a big carpet that I brought, but she would seriously only vacuum half of it… and then she would point out how I needed to vacuum my half because it was so dirty. Well, she says that she doesn’t like that rug, so she went out and got another one (which is very small.) She put it right beside her bed, on top of my rug for a while, which was reasonable, but this weekend I came home to find that she had folded my rug in half along the “line” and put her rug on the other side. It’s just a little ridiculous, don’t you think? She’s always yelling at me, and she’s also always in the ****ing room… so I never want to come home. I just need somewhere to relax…</p>
<p>Today, my roommate blew his top at me. Every morning my alarm sets off at 6AM, then I have another one at 6:30AM on my cell phone just in case I sleep through the first one. I set the alarm for those times because I work out during the morning (Well, I try). What usually happens is I just turn the alarm off and go back to bed while my cell phone goes off (you need to hit the send button to turn the alarm off if not it’ll ring every 5 min. - I just press any button cause I’m too tired). So my roommate wakes up, goes outside and re-enters and turns on the lights and yells at me to get up. His words:</p>
<p>“I’M GETTING TO HATE YOUR ALARM. EVERY DAY YOUR “FIVE” ALARMS GO OFF. DO YOU HAVE A CLASS AT THIS TIME?” </p>
<p>Me:“No.”</p>
<p>“THEN ONLY SET THE ALARM ONCE. I TURN AROUND IN MY BED AND SEE YOU ALWAYS GINGERLY TURN IT OFF. I CAN’T GET BACK TO SLEEP. IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?”</p>
<p>Me: “Yes.”</p>
<p>( He turns of the lights and both of us go back to bed)</p>
<p>-a moment of silence-
<em>my cell phone alarm goes off</em></p>
<p>-end-</p>
<p>My roommate goes to bed at around 2AM usually, and wakes up around noon.I have morning classes, so I don’t have that luxury. He’s also failing most of his classes so he has to retake them(he failed pre-cal twice, right now his failing college algebra).</p>