College Students! discussion

Ugh. That stinks Natanya. Sleeping schedules are always so hard to manage. My roommate (the only one throughout the years I didn't get along with) would always go to bed like before 11 every night..alot of times like at 9:30. I would always go to bed anywhere between 12-3..and later depending on if I had to pull an allnighter. I was really quiet and she slept pretty heavily so it worked out better. It sucked though when she would be in bed so early at 9:30..so many hours in the dark with a little lamp makes me crazy. I would end up going to the lounge alot in our hall. It just sucks all around because you can't change your sleeping schedule..and you can't keep losing sleep. Does she do like really loud things during the night?

Hopefully you will get in for the single room though!

She doesn't purposely do loud things (I don't think, at least, though I wouldn't put it past her...I know a couple things she did at the beginning of the year solely to piss me off), but she's a naturally loud person, so everything she does seems to make more noise than it should.

Wow, 9:30? If I went to sleep that early I'd wake up after a few hours. Twice a week I don't even get back from work until 10.

I know what you mean! I know people that just literally can't be quiet even when they try. That stinks! Hopefully she isn't doing them on purpose.

Yeah..that's what I thought! 9:30? Alot of times I was either going out at that time or if I was in for the night..I was just drinking a cup of coffee to start homework lol

Yeah, she probably isn't doing them on purpose. She speaks really loudly, sings really loudly, has her phone sound on much too loudly...she even sleeps loudly. Basically, she's just a bucket of noise. I speak loudly (my mom always is always telling me to speak more quietly in restaurants, haha), but other than that I'm pretty quiet, and I don't like a lot of noise.

I am getting three new roommates on Friday and it should be interesting. From Facebook stalking, I see that they like country music, Twilight, and MTV reality shows.....aka everything I HATE. Also, they are all freshman (I'm a junior), yet they're all older than me. Worst of all, they look like the kind of college kids who don't know how to limit their alcohol intake. AHHH!

Oh boy! Good luck with that Kelly! You will have to let us know how it goes!

My roommate situation went from perfect to disasterous...I'm still with my old roomie Caelia but as I mentioned before we moved to a suite. And for nearly the entire semester we went with out suite mates. So it was quiet and clean...then suddenly out of the blue in November we were told we were having suite mates...well we were kind of expecting them to move in the next semester. NOPE, they moved in 30 mins after we were told.
They party...have random (and unfamiliar) guys over almost every other night, they are rude. It's just horrible. We have received the stereotypical college girls...

Wow Michelle! That's awful. I hate when schools don't even consider people in those types of changes. I know they have a "business" to run..but a little time to prepare would have been nice. And it's even worse that they are that type of girls!

Agreed, in this case the people in charge of rooming definitely didn't consider others. There are plenty of other empty rooms in the three different buildings, and yet they chose to move them into a hall full of people. Very poor planning, considering the fact that we are pretty sure they were kicked out of their old dorm.

I think that I am too dramatic sometimes. They're nice girls; I got sick on Saturday and they made me dinner and gave me medicine....we will just have to see how things play out!

That's nice! Hopefully it will all work out!

The ogre wrote on my wall on Facebook. Pretty sure I'm just going to ignore it...

Michelle, I'm so sorry to hear about your suitemates. It's really hard living with someone who has such a vastly different lifestyle than you.

I would like to take back everything I said in my last post. This semester is going to be hell, thanks to at least two of my roommates.

Oh no! Do you share a bedroom or just a suite with these people?

A suite, thank God. And the one that I don't dislike is the one I share a bathroom with thankfully. They are stressing me out majorly :(

Ick. I'm so sorry to hear that. I would say spend time elsewhere, but they shouldn't be running you out of your suite or making you feel like you can't be there.

Oh no! What happened??

By the way, Jamie, how's you pseudo-roommate situation going (with your sister)?

OHH..it was going ok..for like a week we got along really well. We went to NYC on Friday with my little sister and it was all good until the way home. We got SO lost on the way home because she wouldn't listen to me and she was screaming at me and just kept driving rather than pull off so we could figure it out. And guess who had to pay all the tolls that we wouldn't have had to pay..yep..that's right..ME!!

Oh man! That really sucks. (I won't even mention how jealous I am that you went to NYC) I hate when drivers are being dumb.

My roommate situation is still going well. Very few fights. Sometimes we have to play chicken about who's going to take out the garbage or wash dishes. A few things have occurred which make me think I need a boyfriend because there are just certain things I don't want to deal with...like checking mouse traps.

Well two of my roommates called me a 'nutty freak' because I don't like Taylor Swift or alcohol and because I stay in my room 'all the time'.....I'm a very shy person and I also was dealing with a semi-crisis back at home. There are other little things too, but the worst part of it is that they are nice to my face and talk about me behind my back.....they just don't know that I know. At least I like one of my roommates.

I hate that kind of crap Kelly! Two faced people are one of the worst things. I'd rather be hanging out with someone who is known as the biggest asshole in the world rather than be with someone who is two faced. I don't understand why people can't deal with the fact that people have different interests. Try and hang in there! You know you can always rant to us about them! :)

Kelly! I'm in a very similar situation! All I can tell you is, you are way better than them and don't you forget it!!!

Thanks you guys :)
I've done a pretty good job of ignoring them today.
Lynn, I hope your situation works out as well.

Ah Kelly just remember it's not forever =).

My roommate this year I like a lot, she just makes funny noises when she sleeps and will randomly burst out laughing at youtube videos.. but that's definitely not bad at all.

My roommate last year and I got along fine, but she'd randomly leave glasses filled like an inch worth of drink all over the apartment and she had a dog (which I don't mind dogs at all) that would pee on my feet because she'd get so excited to see me. She was also a pretty horrible cook, but it made for more funny situations than anything. She did have a lot of random personal problems though, I had to take her boyfriend to the hospital when he overdosed on pills trying to kill himself (yeah... seriously.) That could be pretty stressful sometimes when I got involved.

Anyways, I really look my roommate this year though and hope I can convince her to move into an apartment with me next year. We'll see though!

My roommate situation has been pretty constant for the last couple of years, but in the last couple of weeks we had one roomie move out (which I'm glad about because he drove me insane) & another roommates girlfriend moved in with us. So now it's 2 couples in a 3 bedroom apartment. It's not been too bad so far, there are just a few annoyances. One, the girlfriend has 2 cats, which we're pretty sure we aren't even supposed to have in our place. I'm not much of a cat person... I didn't mind them at first but one of them is crazy and makes me feel like I'm taking care of a 3 year old that won't listen. The other annoying thing about living with them is that they both work for the same company at different stores in the city. Every night when they get home, they seriously talk about work for like 3 hours... dumb stuff too like store stats and they use store lingo so my boyfriend and I have no idea what they're talking about. I hate coming home and feeling like I'm walking in on a board meeting.

Heather wrote: "So I have kind of an amusing roommate story for you guys. Some back story first- right now, I'm living in an apartment with my boyfriend & his 2 childhood friends.. we've been living together for a..."

That's hilarious! Every time something bad and shitty happens like that to me I think well hey, at least I have a great story to entertain people with! Gotta look at the bright side sometimes haha

Rachel wrote: "Ah Kelly just remember it's not forever =)...."

I know! In fact, signing up for housing in the fall just started, and my roommates actually said they'd LOVE to have me with them for another semester. Then then proceeded to talk about me in the kitchen..right outside my room..with my door open. They aren't even trying anymore! It's so sad that after only two weeks I dislike them enough to not want to come back.

I'm living alone with my cat right now. It's been awesome!

Wild for Wilde wrote: "I'm living alone with my cat right now. It's been awesome!"

Lucky! I miss my kitty :(

Just though I'd give a status update...so after spending all of last semester miserable because I was woken up multiple times a night by my roommate, I asked a lot of people for advice over winter break...but then I got back here, and though my roommate's habits have not changed, I discovered that my new earplugs and eye mask work extremely effectively. So now I sleep most of the way through the night! It's wonderful. I know I should have talked to my roommate, but honestly, this solves my main problem, so unless something goes wrong, I may just survive until next year. But if I don't get a single next year (as opposed to a double), heads will roll.

I'm glad your immediate problem was solved. It's really hard to confront the person you're living with with a problem like that. And I hope you get your single without making heads roll.

Haha thanks :)

Confrontations always go either really well or really bad so it's great you found a way to solve your problem without one!

Thought I'd give an update from where I was six months ago!

Things are better. Much much MUCH better. We're all friends and get along great. I'm actually glad to be back for summer and see them. I still don't know what their problem was at the beginning of the year, but as long as that's behind us now, I don't care!

Yay! That's good to hear!

How's everyone roommate situation going this year?

I'm in a single and loving it :)
I'm really not built to live with someone else.

Haha! I wished that my last year I lived by myself. I had a really great time my first few years living with people..no drama and it was perfect! My last year was HORRIBLE. Since that experience, I have vowed to not live with anybody else until I get married. lol. I can't deal with drama that crazy people start. I'd rather live at home.

Haha yeah...I'm just too picky and ocd to live with someone else. I'll probably be able to stay in a single for the rest of my time here, but I'm worried about the semester I'll be in France. I'll actually probably end up with a host family (and hopefully will at least have my own room there...I feel like no one would host a student for a whole semester then make them share a room with their kids or something), but I've heard some host family horror stories.

Yeah, that would be really ridiculously weird if they did! I didn't know you were going to France?! So cool! When? Tell me the details!

Haha well there aren't many details yet because it isn't for another year (spring 2012), but I'm thinking of going to Grenoble, which I don't know very much about but hear it's a nice city. The program's with Boston University, which I hear has fantastic study abroad programs. I know someone who's doing the Grenoble program this spring, so I'll hopefully be able to see how it is for her before making my decision, though I think my college encourages us to apply before the end of the previous year (so I'd be applying May 2011).

I probably should talk to a study abroad advisor haha.

France! I'm jealous! I keep kicking myself for never doing study abroad, it's too late now..

If you've read the Pissed thread lately, you'll see I have a big rant about a truly evil roommate.

:(

Kelly--I've kicked myself many of times for not doing a study abroad! I did a 10 day thing with school but that's about it.

I have read the Pissed thread. Sounds like you have a winner for a roomie! lol. She is EVIL!

So, my first roommate freshman year was pretty awesome. We were totally into different things, and didn't become BFFs, but it was pretty great. It was kinda strange, because we weren't even really good friends, but we would have these loonnngggg philisophical conversations and would reveal intimate secrets to each other. Make sense? Anyway, we were both pretty chill about everything, so it was a good arrangement.


My next roommate was okay. We didn't NOT get along, but we didn't really mesh well. I ended up spending most nights that semester in a friends suite (one of the suitemates was a druggy who was always at her dirty boyfriend's apartment, and I would sleep in her bed). At the time, I really liked the other three girls. However, I did absolutely hate it when I was the only person there and there would be a random room inspection (this happened twice). Two of the suitemates smoked pot (to each his own) and drank a lot (okay, we all did that), and these two roommates would leave their bong, pipes, and liquor bottles all over the freakin' room! I would hear the knock on the door and run around and toss the 10 fifths of alcohol (empty and full) into hampers, drawers, ANYWHERE I could hide them. One time, I had forgotten an empty bottle of vodka sitting on the floor by the fridge, so I just sat down in front of it and had a conversation with the RA. It was nervewracking.

The next semester, I OFFICIALLY moved in with them (the third roommate was my best friend). It was a lot of fun at times (they really knew how to party). But, I started spending basically every single night at my boyfriend's apartment. And then their true colors showed. I would go over to the room to get clothes or something, and I wouldn't be able to find it. My best friend told me that she caught one of them stealing my socks and panties (not the new ones with tags, the USED ones). Many times I would be walking on campus and see one of the two roommates wearing my clothes, or shoes, or coats. Besides the loads of socks and panties that were missing, I lost two winter coats, five NICE tops, several tees (which didn't make sense, b/c a couple were t-shirts from high school, with my name on them...), a pair of boots, a NICE pair of sneakers, two pairs of jeans, my awesome hair straightener, my favorite book, ALL of my Sharpies (I'm all into color coding notes and stuff, so I had pretty much every color of Sharpie in both the regular size AND the thin ones), my Clinique 3-step face wash, and probably countless other things. Oh, and they stole my prescription drugs (pain pills and muscle relaxers from a car wreck) to crush and snort. Plus, they were really, really, gross. Like, the room smelled terrible. My best friend and I were really clean (not OCD clean, but not smelly), and it was horrible. And, when I asked for my stuff back at the end of the semester, they didn't respond for ages. I just decided to cut my losses and rid myself of them.

Caitlin--Those roommates sound horrible! I had a klepto my freshman year as a suitemate. She stole so much of our stuff and hoarded it in suitcases. I finally went in there one day when we knew she was going to be out, with her roomie's permission bc her stuff was stolen too, and I took everything out of her suitcases and bags and closet and found all of our stuff. She came home that night and I freaked out. She tried to act all innocent and I finally was just like you, "You are insane. We found all of the stuff so stop acting like a victim." Needless to say, I made her cry and I didn't feel bad for once in my life.(I always feel bad if I make somebody cry). This girl was a nut and she seriously, in every facet of life, played the victim and acted like this sweet and innocent girl. She wasn't. We saw through that after stuff went missing. What is funny is that she stole clothes from me and she was 2x my size. I had a bigger, vintage shirt that was my mom's that she stole and I was pissed about it because my mom was sick and dying from cancer. She knew it was my mom's..who does that?!

I'm so glad I didn't end up with a klepto roommate or a super messy one. Though honestly, I wouldn't even have stayed in the room if that was the case. I would have moved out--anywhere. As far as roommates go, even though mine last year made my first semester hell, she wasn't a horrible person or anything--we just completely clashed in too many of our habits for me to be happy.

I LOVE my roommate. I feel that I have been the luckiest person ever... We were matched up randomly by the school; we didn't know each other beforehand. She's a bit crazy, but I'm super crazy, so it works! We get along really well, have similar interests and a similar sense of humor. Also, she's very tolerant of my disgusting mood swings (they're really bad, seriously) and the fact that I'm a messy person. I don't know how she can stand me. xD We get along so well. Within the first month of living together, we decided we'd be rooming again next year! Thank goodness we haven't had a falling out. We probably won't. She's also an excellent judge of the guys I'm interested in... and has really helped me by being angry about stuff FOR me. I have issues being mad with people I like... Oh man, I could talk for ages about how lucky I've been. I was freaking out SO BAD before I came to school too. xD

<3

It's a nice change to hear that someone loves their roomy, Caitlin.

since i still haven't finished high school, i can't exactly waltz out of my house and live closer to columbia. but i am kind of nervous about moving in with my boyfriend after graduation, because he's ocd and im...well i'm a slob. so i have a feeling we're going to drive each other up the wall...