Campus Living
The bills are due today. You reminded your roommates about the due date over a week ago, but they still haven’t coughed up their share of the cash. And this isn’t the first time either. Last month it took over 2 weeks for you to get all the rent money back, and they only paid you after you asked over a million times. It’s just not fair. You can’t keep talking all the responsibility for the bills. It’s obviously not fair that all of the money comes out of your pocket first. … [Read more...]
Your roommate is in L-O-V-E. She and her boyfriend are inseparable. They spend almost every second they’re not in class hanging out together, and that means they’re both spending a lot of time in your dorm room. At first it wasn’t an issue. They were cute together and you like seeing your roommate so happy. Besides it’s not like her boyfriends is a bad guy, he’s actually really nice. So when your roommate asked if you were okay with him hanging out, you told her that you were … [Read more...]
The Issue: Your roommate is not happy. She sleeps all day, frequently skips class, and almost never leaves your dorm room. She complains about everything. She doesn’t like it if you’re noisy, she hates it when the dorm is too quiet, and she’s always crabby. Nobody ever talks to her or comes over to see her, and when you do talk all she talks about is how homesick she is. She’s bringing everyone down, and it’s making it very hard for you to have fun or relax in your residence … [Read more...]
The Issue: Most of your friends took the summer off. They’re at home enjoying the sunshine and posting random pics of their free leisure time on Facebook. You, on the other hand, decided to stay on campus and get a few extra credits done. You’re living in the dorms with a randomly paired roommate, and he’s making your life miserable. His clothing is always scattered across the floor, he doesn’t ever wash his dishes, he always sounds like he’s yelling, he comes and goes all … [Read more...]
Getting along with your roommate can be very hard. It’s not like the girl in Organic Chemistry that you can just ignore in classes, at the end of the day you have to come home and share a dorm room with your roommate every day. So it’s important to maintain a positive relationship. This is first part of a series in which I will discuss common roommate issues and some positive ways to solve them. The Issue: You’ve always gotten along really well with your roommate. You’ve become … [Read more...]
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that the two of you are never going to get along. You are definitely not two peas in a pod; you have nothing in common, and you’d honestly be happy if you never saw one another again. But sometimes, that same person winds up being your lab partner, your roommate, or the person that’s always sitting next to you in the library. Maybe she didn’t get the same vibe you did. Maybe it’s just pure coincidence. Whatever the reason, it’s time to pull … [Read more...]
It’s not fun to return to your dorm every day and find your roommate curled up beneath a mountain of covers. It’s annoying to live with a person who is always asleep. You feel as if you need to tiptoe around your own room every second of every day. On the rare occasion that you do accidentally make noise you feel mean, but also, secretly, glad that you woke them up. Now you can breathe again. Until your roommate gets mad at you. Even if you are close her anger can make your situation very … [Read more...]
