[mac-at-kearsarge]

Well despite this being only my second year, I'm already on my 5th roommate. Out of shear boredom I figured I'd tell you about them in as humous a way as possible. Please share any college roommate experiences you've had.

Roommate # 1: Richie "Da' Bomb" Partier - Nice guy, comes from a very well off family, but due to poor study habbits and a demanding social life, is questionable about succeeding. When roomchange time came, he went to go live with a friend from HS in another dorm.

Which gives me

roommate # 2: Anti-Social Friendly Quite guy - We became friends and keep in touch, he introduced me to shows such as "undergrads" and "The Sopranos". Great taste in music (Mostly Alternative Rock), however, when the clic that he and I and a few other people belonged to went to do something, he always stayed behind Exception being when we went to SAM's club to by food. Became addicted to X-Box (He beat Halo, on the hardest level with his best friend within 72 hours of owning it). Decided that computers wasn't what he wanted to do so he left after the 1st year to save money so he could go to a film school in Canada (We keep in touch often).

Now at the begining of 2nd year I have:

Roommate # 3: Hardworking Redneck - I can't really say anything about him because I never got to know him. He was there on the 1st day, said he had to work a lot and wouldn't be there some nights, didn't stay the 1st night, was back in the morning studying, never came back (I was told that he had to work too much too commute to stay in the dorms)

This gave me a room to myself for a semester (Some might think that this was a great thing, but in a weird way, not having a RM sucks, at least it did for me)

Roommate #4: Technically he wasn't my roomate but he wanted to be. He was one of my friends from the aforementioned clic. As the end of the 1st semester/y2 was coming to an end, he asked if I would be interested in him being my RM next (This) semester, as he hated his RM. I said yes, and was really happy. Three hrs. (yes hours) later after watching the LOTR DVD (It was the day it came out), he collapsed and died walking to dinner.

So coming back for my final semester I have yet another RM,

Roommate #5: Eminem wannabe with personal issues - Since I only met him 3 weeks ago, I'm still kinda getting to know him, but we get along well. He too is a CIS major, but definatly needs some education with comps; ie: he just built this really nice PC to bring with him to school (This is his 1st semester). He wants to put Windows ME (Currently he has XP Pro) on it because "Me is the best MS OS, and FAT32 is faster then NTSF, making it better for gaming" I'm also trying to explain to him why he doesn't want to RAID the two 80 GB HD's he has. Other then this, he's a really nice, guy. He likes to swear and yell alot, and does have some personal baggage (But so do I, we were sharing out 'war stories" the other night).

[Arch.]

My old roomate liked to collect guns...kind of weird.
Then there was the quiet english major.....got along ok but I think I harshed his groove.
Now I live with my GF and spend my days/nights in studio...

[mac-at-kearsarge]

hmm, intersting. Anyone else?

[fromthecloud]

Well, I just transferred schools, and my old roomate just put himself up on facethejury.com.


Check out Joe.

[capuchin]

1) The creepy gay guy. I'd come home from working double shifts at the restaurant on Sat night to find him and his boyfriends glued to the TV, hardcore gay porn blasting loud. The things I could tell you about young blonde boys and guys in gimp masks. Yikes.

Turns out he was a real weirdo - ostracized within the campus gay community - had multiple passports and ID's depending on what he wanted to do with who, of what age, and where. I moved out after he tried to seduce me at 3am one morning by getting into bed naked with me. Thankyouverymuchgoodnight...

2) The nice but socially unequipped roommate. Really, really nice guy, but from an old and distinguished Belgian family, and had no idea about how to deal with the opposite sex. After a few months were up, I moved in with five hot girls? I knew. What a great idea!

3) The Five Hot Girls?

Boy, what a dumb idea that was.

Y'know, I had images of sunday mornings, the FHG's running around in little panties, looking all sexy, giggling, looking all pert and having hilarious bathroom frolics. What a load. A year with a coven of harpies; mean, bitchy to each other and myself, vacuous, and, due to their almost incendiary hotness, given to bringing crowds of people back from whatever bar they went to. I came home one night to find fifty drunk hooligans trashing the house; every plate broken, windows smashed, the bathroom door busted in, a bunch of **** stolen, and two stoned people having sex in my bed. And the party was still raging. The only upside was the occasional drunken household bout of lesbianism, but those, my friends, were too, too few and far between. Plus, on the nights my girlfriend was out of town, they could all be relied on to be having sex with their flavors of the week. Noisily. Just to remind me that, hey, I wasn't getting laid that night.

Damn them.

Thankyouverymuchgoodnightagain.

4) The best friend from school. Known him since I was ten. Roomed together in, and after college, eventually getting a minute single bedroom studio to share. I slept in a bathtub for two years, and had the best time. Blew all our money on booze, cigars, expensive stereo gear, and sometimes food. Lost 30lbs, skin tone, and any trace of dignity. Priceless.

5) Now I'm married, and my roommate is a good combination of the above. Hot, good friend, prone to bouts of lesbianism, a connoisseur of booze and cigars. Not Belgian, though.

However, it seems that later this year we'll be joined by another roommate. I doubt he'll pull his weight at first, but I'm sure that after a few years we'll get him to pick up around the place a little. The only downer is that eventually, I'll have to send him to college.

[fromthecloud]

Now that's a post, capuchin. Good work.

[wataru]

Originally posted by mac-at-kearsarge:
Three hrs. (yes hours) later after watching the LOTR DVD (It was the day it came out), he collapsed and died walking to dinner.

Wow, that's terrible! What happened to him?

My roommate is a meathead from small town Wisconsin who likes guns, football, weight lifting, and Eminem. We get along ok, but I won't miss him next year, when I'll be living with my girlfriend in an apartment.

[Teronzhul]

I spent one year in a dorm, and that was far far more than I ever ever could have wanted.

rm #1 Kristian - redacted -

Son of a German man and a scandinavian woman. Both normal. Their kids.. far from it.

this could get long, forgive me

Poor hygeine, I know he showered 4 times that semester. Beyond that, I am unsure. Would not walk on the floor without his shoes. I once witnessed him hop across the floor with one shoe on to adjust the thermostat, and then hop back. Kept his computer password protected and locked to the desk, not to mention keeping anything remotely valuable locked in a file cabinet. Kept a daily planner that typically had no more than the following 3 entries every day: EAT, EAT, EAT. I was often curious as to why he neglected to remind himself to pee or breathe. Constantly talked down to me and everyone he knew until one by one he found out that most of him had beaten his 1300 SAT score. He must have forgotten he lived in an honors dorm. Watched Star Trek and CNN. Nothing else. Had no sense of humor or any idea as to what sarcasm was. You could tell him an alien lived next door, and if you used a straight face, he probably would believe you. He often would instant message me while sitting next to me. He had no athletic ability. One day someone threw a football to him down the hall. It hit him in the head. He was completely socially inept. He would knock twice on any persons door in the dorm, and then immediately walk in without waiting for a reply. For many of these reasons he was picked on a great deal. One student, named David, was in particular a bully toward Kris. Kris called David and his cronies "that stalinist and his regime" or something to that effect. A short story:

A typical practical joke during finals week is to pull the fire alarms in the dorms and annoy the crap out of everyone. During my first finals week at FSU this happened several times. One day it happened twice in a span of about 2 hours. After the second time it had occured that day, we were readmitted into the dorm. David, and some other students had been having it out writing nasty messages to each other on small dry erase boards on their room doors. Upon seeing a message about his mother, David, in a joking tone, yelled down the hall at Kris, "Hey Kris, Did you write this **** on my door?" Kris screamed, a long wailing scream, and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position. I was standing across the hall talking to two of my friends. One of them busted up laughing, not because it was funny, but because he didn't know what to do. The other made a hasty retreat into his room. I stood there... Kris stood up, put his hands over his face, and softly repeated "i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry" over and over. I grabbed the laughing friend and we went downstairs. Our conversation went something like this, "WTF just happned!?!" "I dunno!" Kris then joined us some ten minutes later, and proceeded to tell us about how scared he was of David. How David did such mean things to him and this and that etc etc. We told him not to put up with that ****, and to tell an RA or the Hall coordinator or something, but he wouldn't. He was too scared of what David might do to him if David found out. He also proceeded to tell us about how in high school some girl had beaten him up. A girl BEAT HIM UP. He told us this, because a teacher found out about it, and urged Kris to tell the Dean, but guess what, Kris was too scared of the girl to do that either. The next day I told David to quit fscking with Kris and I'd throw him through a wall if he didn't. I didn't like Kris all that much, but at this point I sure as hell felt sorry for him. there is so much more... but this post is long enough

I also have 2 avi's of the guy if anyone doesn't believe me that he exists. Too much trouble to post now as the smaller one is around 9 megs.

[def H H H]

"Turns out he was a real weirdo - ostracized within the campus gay community - had multiple passports and ID's depending on what he wanted to do with who, of what age, and where. I moved out after he tried to seduce me at 3am one morning by getting into bed naked with me. Thankyouverymuchgoodnight..."

Wow, sounds like my roommate, except when he gets sloppy drunk he jerks off at like 3 AM in the morning, plus he likes to blast Trance, urinate on the toilet, never wash his hands, never flushes and he likes to use my ****. Oh yeah, he's really annoying too. He also never washes his sheets or his clothes. He's a nasty little wanker. Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Oh, I forgot to mention he's gay too.

[Teronzhul]

Oh, well might as well hit up #2 while I'm at it.

Donahue Mohammed
Son of a Large very nice black woman and a small very nice indian man. Result was an extremely intelligent black boy of about 5'2" and probably 200-225 lbs.

Very intelligent. Very very quiet. Never left the dorm except to go to class. Sat at the computer. Watched football occasionally.

Snored like a chainsaw that was... sawing into another chainsaw... while being thrown into a jet engine.

I never slept that semester. Ever. Which is probably why I don't remember much else about him.

[G4ME]

nothing will top porchebunnies story


right now i am with a guy who went to school in the town right next to me, we like the same ****, but he drinks heavily, and has a gf which he sleeps at almost every night. I met him first semester and hung out a bit, so we are good friends.

[Mulattabianca]

too many to try to categorise...
so, _some_ of them. uh. when i studied i mean.

1# the princess. someone who "doesn't" want to get attention and if you treat her like she says (not on the way you are supposed to read her mind. which i can't. i don't understand the female logic.) she gets pissed off. she has to be the prettiest, most popular and best student as well, or she is very bitchy. surviving: let her believe she is the best in whatever she does. if you can't read her logic behind the behaviour, limit communications to minimum and keep your life as separate from her as you can. she can invent whatever about you to show how much better she is.

2# the future housewife. she studies because her frineds study. and she talks with the other this-kind-of roommates for half an hour if they should go to buy washing powder, and gets really pissed off if she finds one grain of dust in the common areas of the house. survival: respect your turn of cleaning of public areas, limit the communication to minimum unless you are interested in these housevife topics.

3# antisocial. you live in the same house and if you try to say "hi" if you meet him or or her in the house, he or she tries to not see you at all. survival: at least s/he gives you the privacy. communicate with anyone else.

4# group people. of any kind. if you live with these, and you are e.g. 3 or 4 in the same house, you may end up going to a pub because it's more tranquil to study there ( = less people there than home). or these live sometimes at night and listen to f.. music all the time. if they go to 'live' outisde where you live, you have nothing to complain. survival: if they don't bring all their friends al lthe time to home, don't complain. you are lucky. if they do, either get used to it or change the place.

[macroy]

I had very little in common with my roommate. However, we did get along very well. The only story I have is this:

I usually went home one the weekends, giving him the place to himself. I did decide to stay during homecoming weekend to party. He knew that... but I guess he forgot.. 'cause I was woken up at around 4am by his date's moaning and screaming. Yup, he was all business... Of course, I was basically stuck in the room (had to pi$$ like a horse too). Did get a pretty good show I guess. I finally fell back asleep.

Next morning, saw him in the bathroom... We both just looked at each other...and started laughing. Way to go DJ.

He moved out after one semester with a bunch of friends. I got to have the room to myself for the rest of the year. And I do agree, it did suck a bit being alone in a dorm.

[Hawkeye_a]

#1 Sophomore year.
Artsy/quite-guy. cool guy still hang out with him. I got an appreciation for the Beatles, Dylan and cult movies. He told me, he staretd to appreciate art from the other side of the atlantic cause of me. all in all a good friend. horrible to live with.

#2 Junior Year
High School football player. Started out ok....but a puny mind and a high tolerance for alcohol are not my ideal roommate. He hung out with other jocks, and his groupies from his graduating class. got drunk Monday-Sunday...would walk in at 2am and wake me up...so annoying. that year was preety weird....both personally and in the dorm i lived in.

#3 Senior year(Autumn)
Aviation student hick/redneck. he means well and i still hang out with him rarely, but embodies what middle-America tends to think....self-righteous, egotestical ("we are better than anoyone else") and a bigot in some ways.
i spent a semester with this character and moved out. i couldnt take it anymore.

#4 Senior Year(Winter)
band geek. filthiest mo-fo i have even had the misfortune to stay with. was a 'big' individual.....ate candy all the time, and the stench was unbearable....there would be a blizzard outside and id have to open the windows to air out the stench. and being a music major, was very jealous that i had a mac and he didnt.

#5 Senior year(Spring)
stayed with some of my very good friends......while leads me to the moral of this post. do not, under any circumsatnce, opt to live with friends. it's ends in a bad way all the time.

graduated after that. All in all a GREAT experience i wouldnt trade for the world.....met a great variety of ppl, drank a lot....met a 'few good women'...got to the Emergency ward once, got to goto WWDC, see Steve live on stage....great experience...next ones coming up soon, and im looking forward to it.

Cheers.

[Anomalous]

1) Constantly blasted loud music from his PC. I requested a quiet study environment and was placed into a group of people who referred to themselves as "the party suite." Totally inconsiderate toward my academic needs. Totally dependent on each other - they all had to go together to eat or to go on short trips.

Requested a room transfer.

2) Passive-aggressive. Quiet but constantly fought covertly over stupid small issues.

Moved into my own place the next year.

[scaught]

great thread. capuchin and teronzhul made me laugh alot.

i never had college roommates. never lived with anyone but the girl who is now my wife of almost 4 years.

[trusted_content]

I'm in my first year at Reed College and living in a divided double (sweet setup I must say). As it is, my roommate is my complete opposite in so many ways and we should be incompatible but somehow we have had a minimum of conflict and a nice amicable relationship all semester.

Let's see... I'm gay and have no sex life... he's viciously straight and has had a series of relationships with at least 5 women since we started living together.

I love drum n' bass and hip hop; he listens to bluegrass, folk, funk, and the Grateful Dead.

I'm a massive computer geek; he hates to even touch the things.

Thankfully we solved any potential problems at the outset when we laid a few ground rules on the first day.

MUSIC: We both have huge, bumping systems. Having drum n' bass and bluegrass going at the same time is a trainwreck of massive proportions. Therefore we each determine our volume by how much work the other guy is doing and how stressed out he is.

PERSONAL THINGS: Luke likes his sex0ring and his wanking. When he asks me to stay in my room for 30 minutes so he can "download some files" I do it; when there's a string on the door I stand clear. Thankfully, being in the inner room, I have no such privacy concerns

SMOKING: Thankfully we're both pack a day smokers. Therefore either of us can chain-smoke at will in our room without the other complaining.

CLEANLINESS: He's anal retentive as **** about his room and keeps it clean and organized; my room is a cave of ill repute filled with soda cans, empty baggies, empty 40s, clothes, food, and CD-Rs strewn everywhere. As long as I kill the ants before they migrate into his room everything is cool



Crazy how things work out. I'm not sure what type of roommate I'll have next here or if I'll even have one, because housing is incredibly limited on campus and you're only guaranteed a dorm room your freshman year.

Meh...

[Teronzhul]

OK, I'm posting this cause I want you all to beleive my story was true! AND I want some DAMN SYMPATHY! Here is the smaller video. 13.2 megs of Kris.. uh.. trying to fit in. Recorded by some students down the hall with a cheap little intel web cam. Requires the Intel Indeo Video Codec to play in quicktime on OS9, and I'm not sure if you can/what you have to do to play it in OSX. Should work fine on most any Windows comp.

http://tymelyteindustries.com/random/Kris.AVI

Posted for a limited time due to bandwidth.

[scaught]

Originally posted by Teronzhul:

http://tymelyteindustries.com/random/Kris.AVI

Posted for a limited time due to bandwidth.

quicktime, VLC, and WMP all choked on it in OSX.

[Kenneth]

Indeo Video 5 codec is not available for Mac OS X and Intel/Apple have no plan to work on it as well. So can't watch it.

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Originally posted by wataru:


Wow, that's terrible! What happened to him?

My roommate is a meathead from small town Wisconsin who likes guns, football, weight lifting, and Eminem. We get along ok, but I won't miss him next year, when I'll be living with my girlfriend in an apartment.

His heart just stopped (He wasn't on drugs or medications. He was in good shape.

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Originally posted by scaught:
great thread. capuchin and teronzhul made me laugh alot.

i never had college roommates. never lived with anyone but the girl who is now my wife of almost 4 years.

Thanks for the complament. You might say my current life inspired it, that and my desire to reach the 500 post mark ASAP. (Doing so will mean I've posted as many times in the past 90 days as I have in the past 2 years!)

[Freeflyer]

Capuchin, excellent post, and good luck with the new roomate.

In my first year, we had our own very small rooms in hall, but the quality of the block construction meant that the privacy this gave was the equivalent of a threadbare blanket between rooms. if you had someone to stay, then in the morning the notepad on your door would look like the judging from an ice skating competition.

5.9 5.9 5.7. 4.6 (there's always a french judge!!) 5.8 etc. Bonus points for howling (hers, not yours) etc.

then of course there was the womens hall, where a friend of mine (male) was studying (honestly, it was finals) with a colleage (female) and someone set the alarm off near midnight. Upon which he started taking clothes off with some haste. Asked why, by the lady friend, he said "if you think I'm going to be seen coming out of a womens hall fully clothed in the middle of the night, you're crazy. I could get a bad reputation.."

Being 6 years older than everyone else, and having lived on my own for 7 years before college, I decided to get a very small place of my own rather than share a house.

Having seen the houses that everyone ended up in, and how they got on with those they shared them with, I think I made a very wise choice. I stayed friends with way more people and was able to invite whoever the heck I wanted back without worrying about what the rest of the house was doing.

The fact that apart from 45 hours lectures/labs each week, I was working about 50 hours a week as a sound engineer for various clubs/bands meant that my hours were somewhat flexible, not to mention anti-social, made my place a little piece of calm in the mad world that was college.

Right up until the axxhole downstairs used to put on hardcore rave tunes at 8am, when I'd just come home 2 hours before from a night running the sound system at a big rave and desperately needed a couple of hours kip before lectures.

No wonder students take drugs...

Bright college daze.

J.

[shanraghan]

Aie... some real horror stories here. And other entertaining ones... Personally I'm starting college next year, so I'm especially interested in this. It really makes me wonder what kinds of things I'll have to deal with that I'll have absolutely no preparation for.

Please post more, de gozaru! ::bows::

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Originally posted by shanraghan:
Aie... some real horror stories here. And other entertaining ones... Personally I'm starting college next year, so I'm especially interested in this. It really makes me wonder what kinds of things I'll have to deal with that I'll have absolutely no preparation for.

Please post more, de gozaru! ::bows::

From my observations these are rare and extreme cases. Chances are your room mate will be someone you'll get along fine with, and who knows maybe you'll become friends. If you keep an open mind and are patient you'll be surprised how much you can learn from each other.

[MikeM33]

I'm an older college student so I never did the "straight out of High School living at college" thing. But I was in the US Navy for 2 yrs, and lived on the base at the Philadelphia Shipyards for like al;most a year. Different on board ship, but on land we had a little dorm of our own and it was sorta cool.

Most of my roomies were pretty cool. Most of 'em were into country music. One dude moved-out when his wife moved up there and he got base housing with her or something. Mostly country music types but they sorta liked Metal and Alternative too (my sorta music).

One guy (who also worked in my shop on the ship) was from PA so he was right at home when we ended-up there. He was also into the whole country thing, he was also into hunting. He was a bit weird, sorta high strung (like he always had someplace to go). Of course he was also sorta a "joke" in the shop, but he was cool.

Other dude from Arizona was also semi-country type but he was sorta loud and obnoxious at times. He brought back homemade moonshine one time and I tried it <blech, nasty stuff>

And we always had some of the Navy women over to the room during visiting hours. The party room was ours basically. One dude from Michigan used to stop in he was under-age to drink, but I'd always buy for him.

Probably the closest to what you're all talking about that I can relate.

MikeM

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Originally posted by MikeM33:
I'm an older college student so I never did the "straight out of High School living at college" thing. But I was in the US Navy for 2 yrs, and lived on the base at the Philadelphia Shipyards for like al;most a year. Different on board ship, but on land we had a little dorm of our own and it was sorta cool.

Most of my roomies were pretty cool. Most of 'em were into country music. One dude moved-out when his wife moved up there and he got base housing with her or something. Mostly country music types but they sorta liked Metal and Alternative too (my sorta music).

One guy (who also worked in my shop on the ship) was from PA so he was right at home when we ended-up there. He was also into the whole country thing, he was also into hunting. He was a bit weird, sorta high strung (like he always had someplace to go). Of course he was also sorta a "joke" in the shop, but he was cool.

Other dude from Arizona was also semi-country type but he was sorta loud and obnoxious at times. He brought back homemade moonshine one time and I tried it <blech, nasty stuff>

And we always had some of the Navy women over to the room during visiting hours. The party room was ours basically. One dude from Michigan used to stop in he was under-age to drink, but I'd always buy for him.

Probably the closest to what you're all talking about that I can relate.

MikeM

Yeah that sounds kinda like college, except more moonshime, the personal prefrance for musical genres is a little more balenced (Of course geographic location and peronal taste to influence the offical results of this),a nd more stuff witht he ladies, and more time to do it with.

[Montezuma58]

I've probably had about every type of roommate except for the gay ones. Well there was one that could have been gay for all I know. He was my roommate for one quarter and we rarely said a word to each other. All I knew was it was his last term before graduating. I was just starting my sophomore year. I don't even remember his name.

I've had a total 15 roommates during college. Well 16 if you count the cat th at one of my roommates kept in the dorm room. This was partly because I was a co-op student and was moving out or back every quarter for abut 3 years. There was one year where I shared a big house that was built in the mid 1800's with 7 other people. That was an interesting year. We always had these Survioresque alliances being formed and broken. An interesting side note about the house, during football season we would get what we called "random old people". These were people in there 70's or 80's that would wander into the house like they still lived there and start reminiscing about the time they lived in the house.

[Taloston Man]

Originally posted by Montezuma58:
An interesting side note about the house, during football season we would get what we called "random old people". These were people in there 70's or 80's that would wander into the house like they still lived there and start reminiscing about the time they lived in the house.

Gahgh!
I lived in a house in Providence, RI this past summer, while picking up some credits at RISD, and there was a senile old man who CONSTANTLY hovered around our yard spouting off facts about the introduction of various sewer/electrical systems to the neighbourhood in the 30's....
I think the house I was in was built in the 1860/70's sometime.