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!!
I shared a tiny room with two other girls my freshman year. One of them called me on the phone to chat before we got to school, and as soon as I started talking she interrupted me and asked "are you white?" I said "yeah." And she was like "oh." *akward silence....* lol! It was a strange year. When we first moved in, she put a code on the remote control so only she and our other roommate could use it. :rolleyes: Of course, the tv still worked (without the remote) but she didn't know...lol. She once asked me "is the world flat?" I stared at her, silent and totally stunned, and she answered herself, "yeah, it is...." And one time she asked me if Hollywood was in California.
Like I said. It was strange.
You will have hilarious stories by the end of the year, I assure you.
I shared a tiny room with two other girls my freshman year. One of them called me on the phone to chat before we got to school, and as soon as I started talking she interrupted me and asked "are you white?" I said "yeah." And she was like "oh." *akward silence....* lol! It was a strange year. When we first moved in, she put a code on the remote control so only she and our other roommate could use it. :rolleyes: Of course, the tv still worked (without the remote) but she didn't know...lol. She once asked me "is the world flat?" I stared at her, silent and totally stunned, and she answered herself, "yeah, it is...." And one time she asked me if Hollywood was in California.
Like I said. It was strange.
You will have hilarious stories by the end of the year, I assure you.
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So i know you guys told me not to judge and everything, but I am now friends with my future roommate and her profile song is soulja boy. :(
haha, listen... I lived with one friend that only listened to broadway musicals. And this was a roommate I CHOSE! :eek: (In my defense, I honestly didn't realize this until we moved in together. It was...interesting. )
my first semester I was in a room the size of a shoe box with this chick who caught mono. And then used my dishes.
there were two other bedrooms in that dorm, with two girls in each room. One of them was madly cheating on her bf.
It was horrible.
I transferred to another school after that semester.
When I went to school in Buffalo, I lived off campus with my then bf and my best female friend, and we moved into this house that two of my then-bf's female friends lived in. It was like this chick that played D&D and her 'maybe' girlfriend (they shared a bedroom).
And after we moved in: we come to find out they are PACK RATS of the highest order. It was a nightmare.
And we had signed a lease for the school year. Then the bf and I broke up so I started sleeping in the extra bedroom upstairs. Which they wanted me to PAY for.
Unbelieveable. But the moral of the story and the lesson learned was to never move in with people you don't know very well. I moved back on campus and insisted on a single dorm room from then on
"...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
"Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
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6/25/08
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and Metsy!
nice guy though... we both minded our own business to an extent but were friendly and we got along great... just didnt make an effort to keep in touch since
just make the most of whatever ya get! and dont force friendship just cause you have to live together... just get along
hmmm...freshman year. i missed out on living in the dorms, which was a good thing because ucf dorms sucked my freshman year. so, i signed a lease for an individual lease apartment right across the street. at least i had my own room...with a door...but i was still paired w/ girls that i didn't know.
two of the girls were best friends from a high school nearby, and the other girl was a crazy party girl from a prep school up north. i got along great with the best friends, though i always felt like the 3rd wheel. they both had boyfriends who were always staying over, so i would hang out with the party girl. she would walk around the house naked and didn't care...a bit of a shock to me. but, she did help me to break out of my shyness...and introduced me to the world of drinking. so, i can't really be mad at her for that.
i remember that she dated on of the courtesy cops that lived in our complex. i was 17 when i started college, so i had to spend the first few months being a loser. but, for my 18th bday she planned to take me out to my first bar by campus. i was excited, until my boyfriend suprised me by driving down to orlando from gainesville. long story short...i get dragged out to the bar by my roommate and the cop, my boyfriend stays at my apt, i'm fed a crapload of shots and beer, i'm begging the cop to take me home but he won't!! by the time i made it home, i was puking all night with my bf in bed next to me. awful bday...but a kinda funny story now!
we actually moved into another apartment together during summer break. she ended up leaving town for the summer, and skipped out w/ all of the rent money i had given her. eviction papers were served to me, though thank goodness that my name wasn't on the lease! never heard from her again.
i lived the rest of college w/ my best guy friend from hs. which worked out perfectly!
yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
These are nice memories.
Freshman Year - Fall Semester - I lived with a basketcase who had just broken up with her boyfriend before she started school. She was nice enough, but I'd come back from class and find her in tears every other day. I found her crying over the video for Brandy's song "Have You Ever". She only lasted a semester and went back home. Tough stuff.
Freshman Year - Spring Semester - I had a room to myself until a rat crawled across the floor. RATS! I moved out the next day and into some girls room for the last month of that semester.
Freshman Year - Summer Semester - We didn't really get to know each other that well. She was friends with some football players which was cool.
Sophmore Year - One of the greatest friends I'll ever have. We are still friends nearly 10 years later.
Junior Year - Fall Semester - Some dumb freshman moved in and told me that she was moving in with her boyfriend and her parents didn't know and asked if when they called I could just take a message. She never moved in, but had the audacity to tell me that she might stop by in between classes. I told her that was unexceptable, if she wasn't going to live there, she wasn't allowed to stop by. She left school after the Fall Semester.
Spring Semester - A really sweet freshman who was a refugee from some psycho roommate.
Senior Year - I moved into an apartment with two friends. One friend's life went one way, the other we are still very close.
hmmm...freshman year. i missed out on living in the dorms, which was a good thing because ucf dorms sucked my freshman year. so, i signed a lease for an individual lease apartment right across the street. at least i had my own room...with a door...but i was still paired w/ girls that i didn't know.
two of the girls were best friends from a high school nearby, and the other girl was a crazy party girl from a prep school up north. i got along great with the best friends, though i always felt like the 3rd wheel. they both had boyfriends who were always staying over, so i would hang out with the party girl. she would walk around the house naked and didn't care...a bit of a shock to me. but, she did help me to break out of my shyness...and introduced me to the world of drinking. so, i can't really be mad at her for that.
i remember that she dated on of the courtesy cops that lived in our complex. i was 17 when i started college, so i had to spend the first few months being a loser. but, for my 18th bday she planned to take me out to my first bar by campus. i was excited, until my boyfriend suprised me by driving down to orlando from gainesville. long story short...i get dragged out to the bar by my roommate and the cop, my boyfriend stays at my apt, i'm fed a crapload of shots and beer, i'm begging the cop to take me home but he won't!! by the time i made it home, i was puking all night with my bf in bed next to me. awful bday...but a kinda funny story now!
we actually moved into another apartment together during summer break. she ended up leaving town for the summer, and skipped out w/ all of the rent money i had given her. eviction papers were served to me, though thank goodness that my name wasn't on the lease! never heard from her again.
i lived the rest of college w/ my best guy friend from hs. which worked out perfectly!
haha nice puke story! but the eviction sucks!! glad it all worked out in the end! thanks for your story!
These are nice memories.
Freshman Year - Fall Semester - I lived with a basketcase who had just broken up with her boyfriend before she started school. She was nice enough, but I'd come back from class and find her in tears every other day. I found her crying over the video for Brandy's song "Have You Ever". She only lasted a semester and went back home. Tough stuff.
Freshman Year - Spring Semester - I had a room to myself until a rat crawled across the floor. RATS! I moved out the next day and into some girls room for the last month of that semester.
Freshman Year - Summer Semester - We didn't really get to know each other that well. She was friends with some football players which was cool.
Sophmore Year - One of the greatest friends I'll ever have. We are still friends nearly 10 years later.
Junior Year - Fall Semester - Some dumb freshman moved in and told me that she was moving in with her boyfriend and her parents didn't know and asked if when they called I could just take a message. She never moved in, but had the audacity to tell me that she might stop by in between classes. I told her that was unexceptable, if she wasn't going to live there, she wasn't allowed to stop by. She left school after the Fall Semester.
Spring Semester - A really sweet freshman who was a refugee from some psycho roommate.
Senior Year - I moved into an apartment with two friends. One friend's life went one way, the other we are still very close.
you had a hell of a freshman year!
sorry about your friend from senior year, but i'm happy you got a couple good friends out of everything
oh the puking on the birthday story reminded me, my now ex-fiancee who was my then bf and I lived in the same dorm bldg (before the off campus move)
on my 21st b-day, he bought me a 'gag' gift and when I got mad and didn't think it was funny, he went out with his boys and didn't talk to me for my entire birthday :(
why I agreed to the proposal after that is beyond me :(
Oh we have so many stories from that dorm though! Oh man. I'm thinking about them now. Wow.
"...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
"Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
6-01-06
6/25/08
Free Speedy
and Metsy!
I get my roomate at the end of the week too! I'm just stoked though. But my friends like to tell me not to overwhelm and corrupt them.... It should be okay, as long as I can make a PJ fan out of them;)
my best friends through college, were the ones I met on my floor freshman year. I loved them all so much. I lived on a co-ed floor with 3 wings: Girls, Guys and a co-ed wing. I lived in the co-ed wing, and the guy who moved in right next door was someone from my home town, who went to the same high school as me, and we had never spoken to each other but we knew each other's names. We went on to become super close friends, and we still visit when I go back home. We had so much fun on our floor. I went to a school that was a dry campus, so even if you were 21, you couldn't have anything in the dorms, so our RA's had a little more work to do.. but we made good friends with the RA, and they never tattled on us. They looked the other way and ignored little infractions, as long as we were "under control".
Even though most of us left our floor after freshman year, we all stayed close, and most of the guys in the group got a house together, so we always has a home base. It was such a blast. I hated going home for winter/summer breaks.
my best friends through college, were the ones I met on my floor freshman year. I loved them all so much. I lived on a co-ed floor with 3 wings: Girls, Guys and a co-ed wing. I lived in the co-ed wing, and the guy who moved in right next door was someone from my home town, who went to the same high school as me, and we had never spoken to each other but we knew each other's names. We went on to become super close friends, and we still visit when I go back home. We had so much fun on our floor. I went to a school that was a dry campus, so even if you were 21, you couldn't have anything in the dorms, so our RA's had a little more work to do.. but we made good friends with the RA, and they never tattled on us. They looked the other way and ignored little infractions, as long as we were "under control".
Even though most of us left our floor after freshman year, we all stayed close, and most of the guys in the group got a house together, so we always has a home base. It was such a blast. I hated going home for winter/summer breaks.
My close group of friends, 12 years later, is still based on my first year floor (we all either directly lived on the floor or met through people on the floor).
it's not to say there are no problems with being thrown together with these people...there were many people on the floor who I thought were my friends...uh uh wrong about those people. That's sort of the problem with these situations-because everyone has to hang out together so much, there are incentives to deceive, talk behind backs, etc. I had some problems my first year because I had grown up with such amazing friends in high school- we were all very different but we all treated each other like family. For me, dealing with some of these people on my first year floor was drama similar to that of grade school or jr high! But it seemed like all this got weeded out by the end of the first year, and I had established more of who my friends were, met some people off the floor, etc. You're going to meet all sorts of people in college- rich kids whose daddy knows the trustees and that's the only way they got in, kids who think they are the coolest thing since sliced bread, kids who think they're the SMARTEST thing since sliced bread...these people will intentionally try to intimidate you. My advice to the people starting college is to take all this with a grain of salt, don't get caught up in the all floor/house drama...just be who you are, be nice to everyone but-not fake, and study hard.
I get my roomate at the end of the week too! I'm just stoked though. But my friends like to tell me not to overwhelm and corrupt them.... It should be okay, as long as I can make a PJ fan out of them;)
I started college like a few days after No Code was released. So I'm in my room with my parents unpacking and I hear No Code coming from the room next door...now I had met a lot of my friends in high school through a love for PJ so I got excited and my parents are like "go introduce yourself next door" (because I need a little prodding with things like that). So I went to nextdoor and introduced myself and was like "hey pearl jam" or whatever...anyway, long story short the kid turned out to be kind of a jerk and I was never really friends with him .
oh this reminds me of good tip to meet people when you first get there- have a large supply of something delicious in your room. My dad actually thought of this for me...he packed me a 10 lb bag of gummi bears...I was like "what the hell do I need this for" he's like "you'll see."
oh this reminds me of good tip to meet people when you first get there- have a large supply of something delicious in your room. My dad actually thought of this for me...he packed me a 10 lb bag of gummi bears...I was like "what the hell do I need this for" he's like "you'll see."
My close group of friends, 12 years later, is still based on my first year floor (we all either directly lived on the floor or met through people on the floor).
it's not to say there are no problems with being thrown together with these people...there were many people on the floor who I thought were my friends...uh uh wrong about those people. That's sort of the problem with these situations-because everyone has to hang out together so much, there are incentives to deceive, talk behind backs, etc. I had some problems my first year because I had grown up with such amazing friends in high school- we were all very different but we all treated each other like family. For me, dealing with some of these people on my first year floor was drama similar to that of grade school or jr high! But it seemed like all this got weeded out by the end of the first year, and I had established more of who my friends were, met some people off the floor, etc. You're going to meet all sorts of people in college- rich kids whose daddy knows the trustees and that's the only way they got in, kids who think they are the coolest thing since sliced bread, kids who think they're the SMARTEST thing since sliced bread...these people will intentionally try to intimidate you. My advice to the people starting college is to take all this with a grain of salt, don't get caught up in the all floor/house drama...just be who you are, be nice to everyone but-not fake, and study hard.
Wow, I'm leaving for good in just 2 days. I can't believe it. It's such a weird feeling...every time I'm back home it will only be a visit. I'll never just be living here again. :(
Stay away from the drama, and always save time for fun with your roommate. We bonded over ice cream trips. Don't always study in your room and make a clear plan for brining home sexy guests.
Wow, I'm leaving for good in just 2 days. I can't believe it. It's such a weird feeling...every time I'm back home it will only be a visit. I'll never just be living here again. :(
you're not excited?
I have a calendar marked down until the day I leave.
Wow, I'm leaving for good in just 2 days. I can't believe it. It's such a weird feeling...every time I'm back home it will only be a visit. I'll never just be living here again. :(
Awww! Changing is hard! I'm kinda sad about it, too. But it's okay, you, outlaw & I can all go through it together!
Freshman roommate: Dorm. Annoying dude who smoked pot all the time. Oh, and I walked in on him self gratifying himself TWICE!! :eek:
Sophmore roommate: First apartment. Female friend from the freshman dorm. We ended up hating eachother. She was awful!!
Junior to end: Other apartments. Good guy, but a total slob (I'm a neat freak) and a drunk...but fun.
Post college (good job): Condo. Life couldn't be better or happier on my own. You go solo you will NEVER want to go back!!!
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I shared a tiny room with two other girls my freshman year. One of them called me on the phone to chat before we got to school, and as soon as I started talking she interrupted me and asked "are you white?" I said "yeah." And she was like "oh." *akward silence....* lol!
Like I said. It was strange.
You will have hilarious stories by the end of the year, I assure you.
WHAAAAAT?! hahah that IS strange!!!
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hahahha that sucks!
you don't have to be friends with her, you just have to TOLERATE her.
Yeah you're right. Hahha I should probably talk to her. It's just that I love my music and that's SUCH a horrible song!!!
haha, listen... I lived with one friend that only listened to broadway musicals.
there were two other bedrooms in that dorm, with two girls in each room. One of them was madly cheating on her bf.
It was horrible.
I transferred to another school after that semester.
When I went to school in Buffalo, I lived off campus with my then bf and my best female friend, and we moved into this house that two of my then-bf's female friends lived in. It was like this chick that played D&D and her 'maybe' girlfriend (they shared a bedroom).
And after we moved in: we come to find out they are PACK RATS of the highest order. It was a nightmare.
And we had signed a lease for the school year. Then the bf and I broke up so I started sleeping in the extra bedroom upstairs. Which they wanted me to PAY for.
Unbelieveable. But the moral of the story and the lesson learned was to never move in with people you don't know very well. I moved back on campus and insisted on a single dorm room from then on
"Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
6-01-06
6/25/08
Free Speedy
and Metsy!
nice guy though... we both minded our own business to an extent but were friendly and we got along great... just didnt make an effort to keep in touch since
just make the most of whatever ya get! and dont force friendship just cause you have to live together... just get along
good luck!
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two of the girls were best friends from a high school nearby, and the other girl was a crazy party girl from a prep school up north. i got along great with the best friends, though i always felt like the 3rd wheel. they both had boyfriends who were always staying over, so i would hang out with the party girl. she would walk around the house naked and didn't care...a bit of a shock to me. but, she did help me to break out of my shyness...and introduced me to the world of drinking. so, i can't really be mad at her for that.
i remember that she dated on of the courtesy cops that lived in our complex. i was 17 when i started college, so i had to spend the first few months being a loser. but, for my 18th bday she planned to take me out to my first bar by campus. i was excited, until my boyfriend suprised me by driving down to orlando from gainesville. long story short...i get dragged out to the bar by my roommate and the cop, my boyfriend stays at my apt, i'm fed a crapload of shots and beer, i'm begging the cop to take me home but he won't!! by the time i made it home, i was puking all night with my bf in bed next to me. awful bday...but a kinda funny story now!
we actually moved into another apartment together during summer break. she ended up leaving town for the summer, and skipped out w/ all of the rent money i had given her. eviction papers were served to me, though thank goodness that my name wasn't on the lease! never heard from her again.
i lived the rest of college w/ my best guy friend from hs. which worked out perfectly!
Freshman Year - Fall Semester - I lived with a basketcase who had just broken up with her boyfriend before she started school. She was nice enough, but I'd come back from class and find her in tears every other day. I found her crying over the video for Brandy's song "Have You Ever". She only lasted a semester and went back home. Tough stuff.
Freshman Year - Spring Semester - I had a room to myself until a rat crawled across the floor. RATS! I moved out the next day and into some girls room for the last month of that semester.
Freshman Year - Summer Semester - We didn't really get to know each other that well. She was friends with some football players which was cool.
Sophmore Year - One of the greatest friends I'll ever have. We are still friends nearly 10 years later.
Junior Year - Fall Semester - Some dumb freshman moved in and told me that she was moving in with her boyfriend and her parents didn't know and asked if when they called I could just take a message. She never moved in, but had the audacity to tell me that she might stop by in between classes. I told her that was unexceptable, if she wasn't going to live there, she wasn't allowed to stop by. She left school after the Fall Semester.
Spring Semester - A really sweet freshman who was a refugee from some psycho roommate.
Senior Year - I moved into an apartment with two friends. One friend's life went one way, the other we are still very close.
haha nice puke story! but the eviction sucks!! glad it all worked out in the end! thanks for your story!
you had a hell of a freshman year!
sorry about your friend from senior year, but i'm happy you got a couple good friends out of everything
thanks for sharing!
not bad!
on my 21st b-day, he bought me a 'gag' gift and when I got mad and didn't think it was funny, he went out with his boys and didn't talk to me for my entire birthday :(
why I agreed to the proposal after that is beyond me :(
Oh we have so many stories from that dorm though! Oh man. I'm thinking about them now. Wow.
"Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
6-01-06
6/25/08
Free Speedy
and Metsy!
Even though most of us left our floor after freshman year, we all stayed close, and most of the guys in the group got a house together, so we always has a home base. It was such a blast. I hated going home for winter/summer breaks.
My close group of friends, 12 years later, is still based on my first year floor (we all either directly lived on the floor or met through people on the floor).
it's not to say there are no problems with being thrown together with these people...there were many people on the floor who I thought were my friends...uh uh wrong about those people. That's sort of the problem with these situations-because everyone has to hang out together so much, there are incentives to deceive, talk behind backs, etc. I had some problems my first year because I had grown up with such amazing friends in high school- we were all very different but we all treated each other like family. For me, dealing with some of these people on my first year floor was drama similar to that of grade school or jr high! But it seemed like all this got weeded out by the end of the first year, and I had established more of who my friends were, met some people off the floor, etc. You're going to meet all sorts of people in college- rich kids whose daddy knows the trustees and that's the only way they got in, kids who think they are the coolest thing since sliced bread, kids who think they're the SMARTEST thing since sliced bread...these people will intentionally try to intimidate you. My advice to the people starting college is to take all this with a grain of salt, don't get caught up in the all floor/house drama...just be who you are, be nice to everyone but-not fake, and study hard.
Jesus Christ!!!! That's horrible!!!!
I started college like a few days after No Code was released. So I'm in my room with my parents unpacking and I hear No Code coming from the room next door...now I had met a lot of my friends in high school through a love for PJ so I got excited and my parents are like "go introduce yourself next door" (because I need a little prodding with things like that). So I went to nextdoor and introduced myself and was like "hey pearl jam" or whatever...anyway, long story short the kid turned out to be kind of a jerk and I was never really friends with him
oh this reminds me of good tip to meet people when you first get there- have a large supply of something delicious in your room. My dad actually thought of this for me...he packed me a 10 lb bag of gummi bears...I was like "what the hell do I need this for" he's like "you'll see."
aw great advice. thank you dear!
I have a calendar marked down until the day I leave.
well, not really.
Awww! Changing is hard! I'm kinda sad about it, too. But it's okay, you, outlaw & I can all go through it together!
Sophmore roommate: First apartment. Female friend from the freshman dorm. We ended up hating eachother. She was awful!!
Junior to end: Other apartments. Good guy, but a total slob (I'm a neat freak) and a drunk...but fun.
Post college (good job): Condo. Life couldn't be better or happier on my own. You go solo you will NEVER want to go back!!!
haha no, I'm definitely excited. It's just kind of a weird feeling now that I have to leave my home in 2 days.