Havent started a thread in awhile and i was just sorta curious about this. I am starting college in the fall and I was just wondering how your freshman roomate was. I am not really worried just curious as to what your guys experiences were, good, bad, or just ok?
I'm starting college in the fall too (Bowling Green State University), so i can't tell you how my experience was, but I know for sure I'm rooming with my cousin/best friend, so it should be pretty fun. I can't wait! FlyerFanatic, what college are you going to?
It's weird but me and my freshman college roomate didn't get along too well even though we had a lot in common. We never really hit it off and I actually got along more with his best friend and his girlfriend. I guess it's sort of hit or miss but it's just one of the many joys you will get to experience as a freshman...Enjoy these days young man because the real world sucks big time...
I never have had a room in college but many of my friends have and most of them have enjoyed their roomate but some have not and all you have to do is ask for a transfer to another room or roommate, at least at ASU and UM.
Somehow you would think these colleges would get freshman roomies beter matched. Both of my brothers had not bad, but roommates that they had nothing in common and never had anything to do with again. When I was still looking at TUlane, they made me fill out and answer a HUGE survey of questions that would calculate my 'compatibility' to another guy. It felt like an amazingly gay match.com (no offense). The rest of the places simply asked like 2 or 3 questions on a business reply postcard mailer: -Do you consider yourself clean or messy? -Do you smoke? -Are you a late night person or an early morning person? What's really messed up with Miami (Fl.) is that they sent my room information last week, but won't send my roommate info until about a week before I head down in August. WTF? I (like the rest of y'all) fear an *******, egotistic maniac who is a Laker/Jazz/Cubs fan. SWEET! Just checked the schedule and the first game is UM-FSU Monday Night Football on Labor Day!
I just finished my first year of college and i can happily say that I had a great roommate. He and I had really nothing in common, (in fact, he was a yankees fan and i'm a red sox fan). Nonetheless, as the year went on, we became really good friends. I'm actually gonna stop by and visit him this summer at his beach houseD ). All in all, there is really no reason to worry about what you'll end up with. I don't know anyone who had to request a change, at least at my school.Though, even if that becomes the case, it usually not too big a deal.
No one could have had a worse roommate that I did http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54152
Having read that thread, I retract my previous. I guess it is just as likely to have a total ******* as a roommate. Looks like i was just lucky.
My first year roomate was ok, I guess. Having to share a rather small dorm room with anyone can be trying. We didn't have much in common, but we got along fine. I had my peeves about him...he watched cartoons way too much for a 19 yr old, and he stayed up very late frequently. That only bothered me because I just have a hard to sleeping well with someone else even awake in the same room, especially if they are making any noise. I can say it could've been much, much worse. My suite-mate was this fat slob that literally had no sense of smell...unfortunately we had to share a bathroom with him, but that was it. I couldn't have taken living with him. Oh, I almost forgot his very unattractive girlfriend over all the time and shuddering if you were in the bathroom and happened to hear them, well...you get the idea. Yes, they made a lot of noise. It was disgusting. Not that I'm trying to frighten you or anything. If you don't like your first roomate, find someone you can stand to live with the next semester.
another roommate thread that was linked in the thread arkoe provided. http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthrea...20&pagenumber=3 i never lived in a dorm myself, i guess i am lucky. i moved straight to an apartment in Austin with my high school buddies. it wasnt a typical college experience, it was more like getting stoned all day, oh wait, that is the typical college experience! __________________ I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough.
My college roommate was ok. We had similar lifestyles, similar tastes, we even had the same major. We got along well enough, although after the first couple of months, we didn't hang out socially. I got into lacrosse, she got into her boyfriend and his crew. If I had to choose to live with her or any of my other past roommates, I'd choose her. I didn't mind living with her but I hated the dorms more than anything.
my roommate was pretty decent. we got in two fights where we were swearin at each other and stuff, but we both know how to move on pretty quick - so the year went pretty good. we would go to the pool hall together and stuff like that - pretty chill. my major complaint with him being that it was always his music on and that whenever i'd go to bed (i had an earlier class) the lights were still on and about 5 other people still in the room chillin...i am a deep sleeper - so it was alright -- except the rare occurences of them moving my bed into the hallway or me waking up with a black marker mustache. but yeh, it was all good -- i got back in my own ways (pissing on his pillow). my roommate next year is a rad guy. he's a starter on the b-ball team (while i'm on the hockey team)...and just a chill guy - barely ever in the room, likes to play nba live on x-box -- so we'll have lots of good times. (last year he beat me in our series of nba live...224 games to 213).
My last roommate was awesome. He used to sell crack in the 3rd ward. He'd ask me to run him out and drop him off at some POS gas station in the middle of the night to do his dealings. He was an awesome roommate. He cooked everyday and never asked for anyone to chip in for groceries. I was sorta sad when his parents intervened and sent him to rehab in Washington.
Had my first year of college/roomate last year, worked out pretty well, we'll be living together next year too. We are both fairly considerate and laid back guys; we're fairly similar but didn't really hit it off as "friends" so we dont' hang out alot but we get along and can talk adn stuff when just chillin in the room. Probably the only problem was he was a pretty light sleeper so I would feel bad sometimes knowing I probably woke him up here and there, but I'm a night owl, so what can ya do! Couldn't have been that bad since he asked em if I wanted to room with him again next year. I guess I lucked out so far in terms of roomies, definetly no horror stories!
My first roommate at Texas Tech was a good one. He was a sophomore, so he knew his way around the school and how everything worked and was nice enough to help me out in that regard. And we had some things in common, so we hung out a little bit. But we were just roommates for the summer. In the Fall, I got a different roommate. The second roommate was making the most of his collegiate experience and was hardly ever there. I think he may have had a job, too. So, we never really did anything together... or even talked, really. Plus, since I arranged my schedule to only have Tuesday-Thursday classes, I wasn't there all that much. I would go back to Amarillo and stay with my wife most of the time (I was married just before that Fall semester. Since my parents, who were paying for college, had already paid for the dorm for the Fall, they decided I should stay there during the Fall, so I did). And during the Christmas break, I moved out and got an apartment with the wife. But, he wasn't a bad roommate. There's nothing wrong with having a roommate that just stays out of your way.
My first roommate was a total loser. He was a CJ major (don't know what they were thinking putting a CJ major with a music major) who slept with his police scanner on. He told me it was because he "didn't want to miss anything good". He had a boy scout banner with his troop number that he put on the front of our door. He talked to his friends on a CB (instead of a phone) and spoke in CB lingo. He had an evil laugh that I used to tape and play back for my friends One time, there was a fire at the prison (I went to Sam Houston) and we could see the smoke from our room. He started jumping around like an crazed animal he was so excited. He called all his weird friends (on the CB, mind you) and started breathing hard and yelling at them to turn out the lights so they could see it better. I got a new roommate the next semester...
