college roommates

alexers

so i'm starting my first year at college in about... 25 days or so and i still haven't found out who i'm living with. apparently i'm supposed to hear by the end of this week, but since it's on my mind... what were your college roommates like?! share your stories - the good, the bad, the humorous!!

Yellow Ledbelly

I lived with friends in an apartment...way too many good times and too much craziness to pick from.

There was one semester that we had one open bedroom and the complex we lived in reserved the right to fill each room. So one Saturday evening this dude showed up with no shoes on, a vacuum and a bag of clothes. He hung around a couple of hours, drank several of my beers, smoked several of my cigs and then left never to be heard from again. His dad called asking for him a few days after that and was shocked when we told him he left Saturday and had not been back. Maybe he didn't like Millier Lite and Winstons, who knows

alexers

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

I lived with friends in an apartment...way too many good times and too much craziness to pick from.

There was one semester that we had one open bedroom and the complex we lived in reserved the right to fill each room. So one Saturday evening this dude showed up with no shoes on, a vacuum and a bag of clothes. He hung around a couple of hours, drank several of my beers, smoked several of my cigs and then left never to be heard from again. His dad called asking for him a few days after that and was shocked when we told him he left Saturday and had not been back. Maybe he didn't like Millier Lite and Winstons, who knows

Hahaha, that's hilarious. Well at least he had a vacuum.

Steve Dunne

go in with an open mind. part of college is about expanding your horizons on many levels, aside from academics. my roommates are still great friends who i can lean on at a moments notice, and vice versa.

know1

I lasted 2 years with a college roommate(s) before deciding that I'd prefer living alone even if it's in a crappy room/apartment.

fuck

congratulations on starting college. I also start this year, but not until the end of September. luckily, I already know a couple people there so I got paired up with a friend of mine as my roommate.

my brother already had his college experience though and would tell me stories about his roommates... some of them seemed really cool, and he's still friends with them 6 years later... but others just seemed kind of weird.

I remember once he told me this story of this joke where you call your roommate "Clyde" for no reason, and when he corrects you, you're supposed to answer with a punchline "Oh, sorry about that, Murray." I never really got the joke, but apparently the entire floor of my brother's building played that trick on one of his roommates... the only problem was that roommate never corrected anyone and he was known as "Clyde" to everyone in the school for 4 years, lol... I think only a few people actually knew his real name. My brother is still pissed off to this day that he never got to say the punchline though.

as far as roommates actually go though, as long as you're allowed to play music, and the person is clean, I don't think it matters much

rival.

i hated my first college roommate with a passion.

he was a spoiled, rich brat from long island and he would let people know it. he was a slob because he was so use to his mom cleaning up after him at home, he would never clean up after himself in our room.

to top it off, he was a mets fan.

alexers

_outlaw wrote:

congratulations on starting college. I also start this year, but not until the end of September. luckily, I already know a couple people there so I got paired up with a friend of mine as my roommate.

my brother already had his college experience though and would tell me stories about his roommates... some of them seemed really cool, and he's still friends with them 6 years later... but others just seemed kind of weird.

I remember once he told me this story of this joke where you call your roommate "Clyde" for no reason, and when he corrects you, you're supposed to answer with a punchline "Oh, sorry about that, Murray." I never really got the joke, but apparently the entire floor of my brother's building played that trick on one of his roommates... the only problem was that roommate never corrected anyone and he was known as "Clyde" to everyone in the school for 4 years, lol... I think only a few people actually knew his real name. My brother is still pissed off to this day that he never got to say the punchline though.

as far as roommates actually go though, as long as you're allowed to play music, and the person is clean, I don't think it matters much

hahha that was a funny story. i would be pissed, too! high five on starting this year! where are you going? i actually just checked my email and got my roommate and room assignment. i'm living 21 stories up!

Yellow Ledbelly

alexers wrote:

Hahaha, that's hilarious. Well at least he had a vacuum.

Yeah, and I forgot to mention that he left the vacuum. We needed one too

Edit: And to give you a little advice if you are a drinker: you need to have at least one friend who doesn't drink much not only for the obvious reasons like keeping you out of trouble and getting you away from situations where you drunken ass might incur an ass whoopin' and driving your drunken ass around....but you need someone around who will remember all the nonsense 10 years down the road. One of my roommates is constantly bringing up things that I don't remember....I actually think he has just started making stuff up now to mess with my head

InHiding19

My first college roomate was the biggest dork. He would go to be at like 9 pm every night and would watch nothing but WWF. He neverr got laid either biiiiggg suprise!!!

markymark550

Going with random roommates didn't exactly work out well for me. Apparently the U of South Carolina thought it necessary to challenge me to live with idiots while I lived on campus.

Freshman year, I was roomed with a real big dork. He played in the marching band and his only friends were people from the band that played the same instrument. He never went to class and sat around playing CounterStrike online all day. He didn't like to hang out, party, or anything and hated it when I had my friends over. Some people are shy, but this kid was anti-social to the extreme. He hated alcohol and would threaten to call the RA/campus police on me and my friends when we chilled out drinking some beer. He was such a downer that if I wasn't sleeping or studying, I was not in my room. Oh, and the worst was the day that I walked in on him masturbating. I had just left the room, where he was laying on his bed watching tv. In the minute it took me to get to the stairwell, remember I left part of an assignment, and go back to the room, he was buck naked whacking off to some hardcore porn on his computer.

Sophomore year was a little better, as he at least had a fake ID and would buy me and my suitemates alcohol. This guy was in the ROTC though and got up loudly at 4am every morning to go to training or something like that. He was also a complete slob as he hardly ever cleaned up his stuff, washed clothes, etc. If the campus didn't have pest control, I'm convinced our dorm would have been infested with roaches because of his nastiness. And to top it off he was a pervert with some really nasty fetishes. His DVD collection had some very very odd selections in it. He apparently also got off on watching people live. We had agreed on the old signal of putting a hat on the doorknob for whenever you were getting lucky. Well, me and my girlfriend (later became my wife) were in the deed and he busts in and says "Hey, there's a hat on the door. You must be gettin laid. Don't mind me, I'll just watch."


They were freaks, both of them...Junior and senior year I lived with some friends in an apartment off campus. They were normal, or at least kept their freakiness to themselves.



Good luck to you with your roommate though. Hope you get somebody that isn't as bad as my first two.

alexers

Oxxys wrote:

My first college roomate was the biggest dork. He would go to be at like 9 pm every night and would watch nothing but WWF. He neverr got laid either biiiiggg suprise!!!

hahaha WWF. and 9? wow.

alexers

markymark550 wrote:

Going with random roommates didn't exactly work out well for me. Apparently the U of South Carolina thought it necessary to challenge me to live with idiots while I lived on campus.

Freshman year, I was roomed with a real big dork. He played in the marching band and his only friends were people from the band that played the same instrument. He never went to class and sat around playing CounterStrike online all day. He didn't like to hang out, party, or anything and hated it when I had my friends over. Some people are shy, but this kid was anti-social to the extreme. He hated alcohol and would threaten to call the RA/campus police on me and my friends when we chilled out drinking some beer. He was such a downer that if I wasn't sleeping or studying, I was not in my room. Oh, and the worst was the day that I walked in on him masturbating. I had just left the room, where he was laying on his bed watching tv. In the minute it took me to get to the stairwell, remember I left part of an assignment, and go back to the room, he was buck naked whacking off to some hardcore porn on his computer.

Sophomore year was a little better, as he at least had a fake ID and would buy me and my suitemates alcohol. This guy was in the ROTC though and got up loudly at 4am every morning to go to training or something like that. He was also a complete slob as he hardly ever cleaned up his stuff, washed clothes, etc. If the campus didn't have pest control, I'm convinced our dorm would have been infested with roaches because of his nastiness. And to top it off he was a pervert with some really nasty fetishes. His DVD collection had some very very odd selections in it. He apparently also got off on watching people live. We had agreed on the old signal of putting a hat on the doorknob for whenever you were getting lucky. Well, me and my girlfriend (later became my wife) were in the deed and he busts in and says "Hey, there's a hat on the door. You must be gettin laid. Don't mind me, I'll just watch."

They were freaks, both of them...Junior and senior year I lived with some friends in an apartment off campus. They were normal, or at least kept their freakiness to themselves.



Good luck to you with your roommate though. Hope you get somebody that isn't as bad as my first two.

wow. that's awkward. my brother's roommate was a slob too and they actually ended up getting a roach or two. he was also against showering and really into watching porn... girls and horses. yep.

he moved back home second semester, hahaha.

alexers

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

Yeah, and I forgot to mention that he left the vacuum. We needed one too

Edit: And to give you a little advice if you are a drinker: you need to have at least one friend who doesn't drink much not only for the obvious reasons like keeping you out of trouble and getting you away from situations where you drunken ass might incur an ass whoopin' and driving your drunken ass around....but you need someone around who will remember all the nonsense 10 years down the road. One of my roommates is constantly bringing up things that I don't remember....I actually think he has just started making stuff up now to mess with my head

thanks for the advice! haha i look forward to having those stories after 10 years!

fuck

alexers wrote:

hahha that was a funny story. i would be pissed, too! high five on starting this year! where are you going? i actually just checked my email and got my roommate and room assignment. i'm living 21 stories up!

I'm going to the University of Chicago. what about you?
21 stories up? jesus, I don't even think we have a building that high at UChicago, lol. sounds pretty cool though. would be awesome if you had a balcony.

and yeah, high five for class of '12

Fighting Hellfish

My first year I was thrown into a triple, which was difficult enough in a tiny room. To make it worse, one of roommates was a 24/7 pot smoker. First thing he did when he woke up, last thing he did before going to bed, and all day in between. The other guy was a wannabe tough guy. Hope you have better luck than me

Yellow Ledbelly

markymark550 wrote:

Going with random roommates didn't exactly work out well for me. Apparently the U of South Carolina thought it necessary to challenge me to live with idiots while I lived on campus.

Freshman year, I was roomed with a real big dork. He played in the marching band and his only friends were people from the band that played the same instrument. He never went to class and sat around playing CounterStrike online all day. He didn't like to hang out, party, or anything and hated it when I had my friends over. Some people are shy, but this kid was anti-social to the extreme. He hated alcohol and would threaten to call the RA/campus police on me and my friends when we chilled out drinking some beer. He was such a downer that if I wasn't sleeping or studying, I was not in my room. Oh, and the worst was the day that I walked in on him masturbating. I had just left the room, where he was laying on his bed watching tv. In the minute it took me to get to the stairwell, remember I left part of an assignment, and go back to the room, he was buck naked whacking off to some hardcore porn on his computer.

Sophomore year was a little better, as he at least had a fake ID and would buy me and my suitemates alcohol. This guy was in the ROTC though and got up loudly at 4am every morning to go to training or something like that. He was also a complete slob as he hardly ever cleaned up his stuff, washed clothes, etc. If the campus didn't have pest control, I'm convinced our dorm would have been infested with roaches because of his nastiness. And to top it off he was a pervert with some really nasty fetishes. His DVD collection had some very very odd selections in it. He apparently also got off on watching people live. We had agreed on the old signal of putting a hat on the doorknob for whenever you were getting lucky. Well, me and my girlfriend (later became my wife) were in the deed and he busts in and says "Hey, there's a hat on the door. You must be gettin laid. Don't mind me, I'll just watch."

They were freaks, both of them...Junior and senior year I lived with some friends in an apartment off campus. They were normal, or at least kept their freakiness to themselves.



Good luck to you with your roommate though. Hope you get somebody that isn't as bad as my first two.

My first year myself and another guy were by far the more free-wheelin' ones and the other two...well, one of them was a total dumbass which we did not really realize until we lived with him and the other one, while a really nice dude, was a stick in the mud with a crazy ass girlfriend. We did get the stick in the mud extremely drunk one night by making up a bullshit drinking game in which he drank every time. He called his girlfriend at like 5 that morning because he was feeling sick and wanted her to come watch him because he, and I quote, "didn't want to go out like Jimi." Jimi as in Hendrix...the whole deal with the vomit

markymark550

alexers wrote:

wow. that's awkward. my brother's roommate was a slob too and they actually ended up getting a roach or two. he was also against showering and really into watching porn... girls and horses. yep.

he moved back home second semester, hahaha.

yeah that was very awkward....roommate #2 had some dvds with girls and animals...he was a weirdo

I wanted both of them to move out so badly, but it never happened :(

xscorcho

i had awesome college roomates (spent two years in the dorms, first was random roomy)...... my best friends now are all the people from my dorm floor freshman year.....

if you do end up hating your roomate though... you can request a switch at semester break.

alexers

_outlaw wrote:

I'm going to the University of Chicago. what about you?
21 stories up? jesus, I don't even think we have a building that high at UChicago, lol. sounds pretty cool though. would be awesome if you had a balcony.

and yeah, high five for class of '12

i'll be in new york city!! yep! 21st floor out of 50-something. we don't have a balcony... which i guess is a good thing, because college students + drunk & really high up = potentially disastrous.

we can complain about all our first year troubles here on the board. i'm looking forward to it hahahaha.

CityMouse

alexers wrote:

so i'm starting my first year at college in about... 25 days or so and i still haven't found out who i'm living with. apparently i'm supposed to hear by the end of this week, but since it's on my mind... what were your college roommates like?! share your stories - the good, the bad, the humorous!!

hahaha at my college almost everyone lived on campus all four years, but you only got a roommate assigned first year. the pairs they make in those housing offices are pretty funny. If I think about the roommate groups on my first year floor, they all would make sense on paper, but in reality the people were all totally wrong for each other.

My first first year roommate had serious mental health issues and was taking so many hard core drugs so could barely interact with other people, let alone study at highly competitve college. She would do really weird things out of nowhere, like once she walked around the dorm distributing soda cans door to door (and it was my soda...). Some days it was really scary because she'd be hallucinating or she wouldn't talk...it was tough to be starting college myself so I couldn't do much for her. She ended up not coming back after christmas break. So...they assigned me a jan frosh for a new roommate. I got back after break and she was already there and had redecorated the whole room. She would cook soup in the room and it smelled horrible, and she also had really smelly work out clothes. She also started off hooking up with a lot of guys, but then settle on this one senior guy who slept over every single night. When you're in college, you put up with it because it's just the way it goes, but I had ZERO privacy. they were always there (they never went to his room) and it was a small room. I couldn't even change clothes in my own room...oh the weirdest thing she did-she used to pierce her own nipples. I came home on a couple occassions to find her sticking needles through her nipples.

Yellow Ledbelly

alexers wrote:

i'll be in new york city!! yep! 21st floor out of 50-something. we don't have a balcony... which i guess is a good thing, because college students + drunk & really high up = potentially disastrous.

we can complain about all our first year troubles here on the board. i'm looking forward to it hahahaha.

I wish I was going to college. Enjoy yourself

markymark550

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

My first year myself and another guy were by far the more free-wheelin' ones and the other two...well, one of them was a total dumbass which we did not really realize until we lived with him and the other one, while a really nice dude, was a stick in the mud with a crazy ass girlfriend. We did get the stick in the mud extremely drunk one night by making up a bullshit drinking game in which he drank every time. He called his girlfriend at like 5 that morning because he was feeling sick and wanted her to come watch him because he, and I quote, "didn't want to go out like Jimi." Jimi as in Hendrix...the whole deal with the vomit

haha...that's hilarious

At least he drank with you. My first roommate tried a sip of beer and a sip of smirnoff ice, and that's it. He denounced them as nasty and evil and looked down on me for drinking. Well, he looked down on me for that until I walked in on him playing pocket pool.

SVRDhand13

If I told all my college experiences with my roommates I'd surely be kicked off this board lol. A word of advice- your roommates may be different from your usual friends but learn to like them for who they are. That's what I did, with some reluctancy, and college turned out to be amazing. I just graduated in May and wish so badly that I could go back next month.

CityMouse

oh the other thing I wanted to mention...it's really more than your roommates that you'll be with all the time your first year, it's the whole floor!

gregkitefan

I went to college from 89-93 and my rommmate from my freshman year is going to see Eddie Vedder with me on Friday night in Boston.

I still talk to 6 guys from my college days.

I'm the only one not married with kids.

alexers

CityMouse wrote:

hahaha at my college almost everyone lived on campus all four years, but you only got a roommate assigned first year. the pairs they make in those housing offices are pretty funny. If I think about the roommate groups on my first year floor, they all would make sense on paper, but in reality the people were all totally wrong for each other.

My first first year roommate had serious mental health issues and was taking so many hard core drugs so could barely interact with other people, let alone study at highly competitve college. She would do really weird things out of nowhere, like once she walked around the dorm distributing soda cans door to door (and it was my soda...). Some days it was really scary because she'd be hallucinating or she wouldn't talk...it was tough to be starting college myself so I couldn't do much for her. She ended up not coming back after christmas break. So...they assigned me a jan frosh for a new roommate. I got back after break and she was already there and had redecorated the whole room. She would cook soup in the room and it smelled horrible, and she also had really smelly work out clothes. She also started off hooking up with a lot of guys, but then settle on this one senior guy who slept over every single night. When you're in college, you put up with it because it's just the way it goes, but I had ZERO privacy. they were always there (they never went to his room) and it was a small room. I couldn't even change clothes in my own room...oh the weirdest thing she did-she used to pierce her own nipples. I came home on a couple occassions to find her sticking needles through her nipples.

WHATTT? ouch!!!!!!!

haha distributing your soda... that's random!!

alexers

CityMouse wrote:

oh the other thing I wanted to mention...it's really more than your roommates that you'll be with all the time your first year, it's the whole floor!

there are four suites on my floor. each suite has two rooms, and since i'm quiet i requested to be in a suite with 3 other people. so i have one more person in my room and two in the other suite. so if you put that all together I guess there's sixteen people on the floor? ...rusty math skills before college.

InHiding19

alexers wrote:

hahaha WWF. and 9? wow.

yeah he was really really lame........I used to make fun of him all the time. He put this huge Giants football helmet in the window that took up the whole window (the window was huge) that said Home of a Giants Fan, so my buddys gave me shit about it.

alexers

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

I wish I was going to college. Enjoy yourself

I will, I promise. I'll share some of my funny stories here and you can be there in spirit!

Yellow Ledbelly

markymark550 wrote:

haha...that's hilarious

At least he drank with you. My first roommate tried a sip of beer and a sip of smirnoff ice, and that's it. He denounced them as nasty and evil and looked down on me for drinking. Well, he looked down on me for that until I walked in on him playing pocket pool.

Yeah, one night that same guy poured up the shots for me and the other guy while he matched us shot for shot...with Mountain Dew. HA! That was ridiculous.
As for the pocket pool....after the stick in the mud and the dumbass were gone my lifelong best friend moved in, who was quite the drinker. Well, the other guy got up one morning and happened to notice the best friend laying sideways across his bed, dirty magazine by his side, pecker in hand and fast asleep...possibly the ultimate classic tale of getting busted in the act