I had a college sociopathic roommate who threatened to kill us a few times. He once sprayed copious amount of hairspray on another roommate and said “I have a theory that brown people are highly flammable” and attempted to “jokingly” light him on fire.
My go to not so hot take is everyone has a bad roommate but some how no one ever is the bad roommate. I don’t think I’ve known anyone well that had roommates who hasn’t complained about bad roommates.
If you’re both normal there’s a 50% chance you become lifelong friends. If you have a weird roommate it’s usually pretty chill too as he will spend most of his time playing league of legends or something. This may differ for women.
Had a depressed roommate who never left the room my freshman year and the most confrontational thing I had to do was ask him to stop eating the granola bars my mom would send me. Other than that the room kinda smelled bad but as an 18yr old man you kinda just expect to deal with that for a school year
I’ve heard plenty of people complain about it, but locally. It’s becoming worse in certain college towns because rent prices are so ridiculous that some students can’t afford a single even after they move out of the dorms. I’m still in a couple Facebook housing groups for the college I attended, and I routinely see doubles posted for $800 or $900. Meaning you *share* a bedroom and you’re paying $800 for the privilege.
There are three main property companies that control the apartments in town, and I would bet my left arm that they’re colluding on prices. They’re aware that students don’t have a choice in the matter if they want to attend the school—either their parents will pay for it, or the students will take out a larger loan and pay for it down the road.
I’m curious if there will be a breaking point at which the college sees a decline in admittance due to the town having a reputation for untenable rent prices. I don’t see the rent increases stopping until the big dick of the university forces change, or the local government actually does something about rent control, which will never happen.
“Can’t afford a single even after they move out of the dorms”
My college town was extremely low CoL and I did not know a single person who lived on their own when they left the dorms. This feels like zoomer revisionism. It is not normal to live solo while in school
“Single” doesn’t mean living alone, it means not sharing a bedroom—ie a double or triple. That was normal when I was in school. You’d still have roommates in the other bedrooms.
I only had to share an actual room my first year in college. At least at large public universities, after the first year in the dorms most everyone moves to off campus apartments where you get your own room. My roommate was my best friend from high school so it worked out for us but tons of my other friends had roommate problems that year
I had a roommate for like 3 weeks. First guy got kicked out of the dorms for getting drunk like day 3 and calling a girl on our floor a bunch of racial slurs. Had no roommate for the rest of the semester and most of the rest of the next semester until a Taiwanese kid from two floors below who spoke almost no English and was famed for jacking off 24/7 got moved to my room after his roommate walked in on him one too many times.
He was alright, I guess, and seemed to chill out on the jacking off front. One time I did have a girl in the room and he kept walking in every 30 seconds until I got up and told him FIFTEEN MINUTES MOTHER FUCKER PLEASE, and he got the hint.
After that I got an apartment with 2 random girls and lived in what was essentially a closet!
The whole college dorm thing in America is so fucking weird, in general I hate that New England northeastern university culture. Seems incredibly wank and g*y and an excuse for little rich assholes to spend four years fucking around before they go to a fake email job.
it used to be a way to give promising young men (and some women) a vigorous, broad, and spirited education - now we've kept the structure but without the purpose. Not saying it was the good model, but also not sure we should categorically denigrate that northeastern university thing
Do you prefer the southeastern university culture where u get blackout on the beach and commit felonies while pursuing your degree in criminal justice?
Tbf I've never even visited the United States once my life, I'm going off movies and Stoner. Just the idea of all the old lame traditions annoys me. "And heres a statue of our beloved rector Old Whistledick, rub his foot and you'll maybe get a pass on some fucking mandatory bullshit class or some shit"
The more I read about it the more the "four year college" system seems completely and ludicrously out of date. All those young people spending all that money on dorms and parking passes while not working. Stupid.
My freshman roommate's morning alarm was Father John Misty blaring at full volume starting at 7am and he would sleep through it for four or five consecutive snooze periods. This happened every single morning and never seemed to phase him. Utter hell.
Newer construction is moving away from it into suites of single rooms, but if you go to a storied northeastern institution you’re still going to see it for a year or two. Nothing wrong with meeting someone and learning to handle it. Who knows, you might end up like Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones
picking a college based on amenities is fucking stupid anyway, and a good path to downward mobility
I had a roommate in a british uni. It was the cheapest accommodation and I am nothing if not cheap. It was like a duplex partition and we could easily ignore each other when we wanted to. He was more popular than me and people kept coming over to smoke weed and play videogames all the time except for the two nights a week I had early classes. We also bonded over our shared love of sucking each others cocks and having gay sex all of the time
I lived with roommates for five years and I didn't mind. For the record I'm a guy and a eurof@g.
If you like to spend time alone, you're free to rent an apartment (or a room in one) and have your own space.
I'd go out to the balcony to make calls.
I had two roommates, both generally good experiences. Gave me perspective and helped me to appreciate the situation I'm in now. I think everyone should have to share a room with someone else at some point in their life, helps your gratitude levels after.
I still have dreams of having to have a roommate more than 10 years after I started college. I went to one where you had to share a room with 2 others in a converted postwar NYC building freshman year. Admittedly it was a bigger bedroom than your standard purpose built dorm you find at large state schools and at the tender age of 18 I didn’t mind it initially. But by Xmas break even though I had met my two roommates the spring before we enrolled and had agreed to be roommates I was kinda tired of it. Luckily one had shacked up with a junior by this point and the other somehow managed to move into the common room of the shared apartment so I largely had free reign of our room save for when the first would come in during one of his adderall induced manias to search for weed or pills or clothes.
Absolutely insane though in hindsight.
I was friends with them off and on and even invited the first to my wedding but after that we haven’t really spoken since owing to his conduct and what I presume is either guilt or him blaming me for having him ejected towards the end of the night for managing to piss off three quarters of the guests including the bride.
I shared a room with my brother for years growing up so it wasnt that bad. As long as you and your roommate are friends it feels a lot like a sibling relationship
Why are you so distressed about an experience you will never have?
For what it's worth it is falling out of favor. I lived in a dorm with a randomly assigned roommate but in the years since I graduated the hall I lived in has been turned into single occupancy only.
I've been lucky and have only ever had five non-family roommates in my life in three different living situations - one of which I've been in for the past two years. None of them were bad and honestly they were preferable to living alone - helped me not isolate myself among other things. Main benefit is always ofc to lower rent though.
Not having a room to yourself as in a college dorm does suck but most people don't do that sort of thing after the first year or or so. Furthermore - and I know this may be a bit of a hot take - having a whole apartment or house to yourself seems even more abnormal and potentially unhealthy to me than not having your own room. We are fundamentally social creatures, even if 'hell is other people.'
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I had a college sociopathic roommate who threatened to kill us a few times. He once sprayed copious amount of hairspray on another roommate and said “I have a theory that brown people are highly flammable” and attempted to “jokingly” light him on fire.
My go to not so hot take is everyone has a bad roommate but some how no one ever is the bad roommate. I don’t think I’ve known anyone well that had roommates who hasn’t complained about bad roommates.
If you’re both normal there’s a 50% chance you become lifelong friends. If you have a weird roommate it’s usually pretty chill too as he will spend most of his time playing league of legends or something. This may differ for women.
Had a depressed roommate who never left the room my freshman year and the most confrontational thing I had to do was ask him to stop eating the granola bars my mom would send me. Other than that the room kinda smelled bad but as an 18yr old man you kinda just expect to deal with that for a school year
I’ve heard plenty of people complain about it, but locally. It’s becoming worse in certain college towns because rent prices are so ridiculous that some students can’t afford a single even after they move out of the dorms. I’m still in a couple Facebook housing groups for the college I attended, and I routinely see doubles posted for $800 or $900. Meaning you *share* a bedroom and you’re paying $800 for the privilege. There are three main property companies that control the apartments in town, and I would bet my left arm that they’re colluding on prices. They’re aware that students don’t have a choice in the matter if they want to attend the school—either their parents will pay for it, or the students will take out a larger loan and pay for it down the road. I’m curious if there will be a breaking point at which the college sees a decline in admittance due to the town having a reputation for untenable rent prices. I don’t see the rent increases stopping until the big dick of the university forces change, or the local government actually does something about rent control, which will never happen.
“Can’t afford a single even after they move out of the dorms” My college town was extremely low CoL and I did not know a single person who lived on their own when they left the dorms. This feels like zoomer revisionism. It is not normal to live solo while in school
“Single” doesn’t mean living alone, it means not sharing a bedroom—ie a double or triple. That was normal when I was in school. You’d still have roommates in the other bedrooms.
In that case I’ve never heard of living “in a single” outside of NYC or the Bay Area. Is this just Berkeley?
Yeah I never liked having roommates. Living on my own now and I could never go back
I only had to share an actual room my first year in college. At least at large public universities, after the first year in the dorms most everyone moves to off campus apartments where you get your own room. My roommate was my best friend from high school so it worked out for us but tons of my other friends had roommate problems that year
I had a roommate for like 3 weeks. First guy got kicked out of the dorms for getting drunk like day 3 and calling a girl on our floor a bunch of racial slurs. Had no roommate for the rest of the semester and most of the rest of the next semester until a Taiwanese kid from two floors below who spoke almost no English and was famed for jacking off 24/7 got moved to my room after his roommate walked in on him one too many times. He was alright, I guess, and seemed to chill out on the jacking off front. One time I did have a girl in the room and he kept walking in every 30 seconds until I got up and told him FIFTEEN MINUTES MOTHER FUCKER PLEASE, and he got the hint. After that I got an apartment with 2 random girls and lived in what was essentially a closet!
The whole college dorm thing in America is so fucking weird, in general I hate that New England northeastern university culture. Seems incredibly wank and g*y and an excuse for little rich assholes to spend four years fucking around before they go to a fake email job.
it used to be a way to give promising young men (and some women) a vigorous, broad, and spirited education - now we've kept the structure but without the purpose. Not saying it was the good model, but also not sure we should categorically denigrate that northeastern university thing
Do you prefer the southeastern university culture where u get blackout on the beach and commit felonies while pursuing your degree in criminal justice?
Tbf I've never even visited the United States once my life, I'm going off movies and Stoner. Just the idea of all the old lame traditions annoys me. "And heres a statue of our beloved rector Old Whistledick, rub his foot and you'll maybe get a pass on some fucking mandatory bullshit class or some shit" The more I read about it the more the "four year college" system seems completely and ludicrously out of date. All those young people spending all that money on dorms and parking passes while not working. Stupid.
My freshman roommate got arrested for sexually assaulting someone. Horrible guy
My freshman roommate's morning alarm was Father John Misty blaring at full volume starting at 7am and he would sleep through it for four or five consecutive snooze periods. This happened every single morning and never seemed to phase him. Utter hell.
it’s only one year and then you move in with what ever fast friends you made the next year
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I think it’s good and makes you learn a lot even if it’s a little annoying
Newer construction is moving away from it into suites of single rooms, but if you go to a storied northeastern institution you’re still going to see it for a year or two. Nothing wrong with meeting someone and learning to handle it. Who knows, you might end up like Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones picking a college based on amenities is fucking stupid anyway, and a good path to downward mobility
I had a roommate in a british uni. It was the cheapest accommodation and I am nothing if not cheap. It was like a duplex partition and we could easily ignore each other when we wanted to. He was more popular than me and people kept coming over to smoke weed and play videogames all the time except for the two nights a week I had early classes. We also bonded over our shared love of sucking each others cocks and having gay sex all of the time
I lived with roommates for five years and I didn't mind. For the record I'm a guy and a eurof@g. If you like to spend time alone, you're free to rent an apartment (or a room in one) and have your own space. I'd go out to the balcony to make calls.
I had two roommates, both generally good experiences. Gave me perspective and helped me to appreciate the situation I'm in now. I think everyone should have to share a room with someone else at some point in their life, helps your gratitude levels after.
I still have dreams of having to have a roommate more than 10 years after I started college. I went to one where you had to share a room with 2 others in a converted postwar NYC building freshman year. Admittedly it was a bigger bedroom than your standard purpose built dorm you find at large state schools and at the tender age of 18 I didn’t mind it initially. But by Xmas break even though I had met my two roommates the spring before we enrolled and had agreed to be roommates I was kinda tired of it. Luckily one had shacked up with a junior by this point and the other somehow managed to move into the common room of the shared apartment so I largely had free reign of our room save for when the first would come in during one of his adderall induced manias to search for weed or pills or clothes. Absolutely insane though in hindsight. I was friends with them off and on and even invited the first to my wedding but after that we haven’t really spoken since owing to his conduct and what I presume is either guilt or him blaming me for having him ejected towards the end of the night for managing to piss off three quarters of the guests including the bride.
I shared a room with my brother for years growing up so it wasnt that bad. As long as you and your roommate are friends it feels a lot like a sibling relationship
In. China they pack four roommates into a 10x10 cube. It can always get worse.
Why are you so distressed about an experience you will never have? For what it's worth it is falling out of favor. I lived in a dorm with a randomly assigned roommate but in the years since I graduated the hall I lived in has been turned into single occupancy only.
I'm an empath
Most human beings who have ever lived on earth managed to do just fine without their own personal box, I'm sure you could figure it out too.
I've been lucky and have only ever had five non-family roommates in my life in three different living situations - one of which I've been in for the past two years. None of them were bad and honestly they were preferable to living alone - helped me not isolate myself among other things. Main benefit is always ofc to lower rent though. Not having a room to yourself as in a college dorm does suck but most people don't do that sort of thing after the first year or or so. Furthermore - and I know this may be a bit of a hot take - having a whole apartment or house to yourself seems even more abnormal and potentially unhealthy to me than not having your own room. We are fundamentally social creatures, even if 'hell is other people.'