Do you or have you lived in a dorm? Help me out here.

[notfred]

I've been attending a Junior College for the past 2.5 years (yeah, I'm slow), and I'm now transferring to a 4 year school. This first semester, I'll be living on campus, as I really don't have any method of finding an apartment when I live 150 miles from school. Anyway, I've never lived in a dorm before, and I'd appreciate any advice and suggestions you may have. I move next thursday.

 

[iamshady]

Do you have a roommate?

 

[notfred]

Yes, but don't know who it is yet.

 

[xyion]

best advice? make friends with your roomie if you can. and be flexible. I guess it was just luck that my roomie and I are almost exactly the same, but still, we have to compromise all the time.

 

[wyvrn]

<< Yes, but don't know who it is yet. >>



Call your roomie if you can. Whenever you see him, make ground rules. Nothing too harsh, but something like "can't come home and puke all over the sink" and "don't leave your wheeties out five days to mold on my desk" are a couple of good ones I had some great roomies experiences in college, and I moved out after only a year

 

[minendo]

Become friends with your roommate and dont take any crap from him. Compromise is generally a good thing. Always take into account that two of you live in the room and not just you.

 

[iamshady]

Well, definitely call him if you can. If not, be ready to meet a complete stranger. I only talked to my roommate once before I arrived at college to arrange who's bringing what. You may or may not share the same goals or luxuries, at times I feel like I wanna kill mine, lol. Best advice for you is to get to know each other the first few weeks so you can iron out any living problems or conflicts immediately. After that, you may become best friends or you won't, but atleast you two can tolerate each other.

Oh, and another piece of advice, if you have a microwave in the lounge, don't blow up food in it, that just pisses off everyone

I'll post more if I can think of any.

 

[Balt]

Yeah, definitely give him a call. Make sure both of you aren't bringing TV's and stereos if nothing else.

 

[iamshady]

Another problem, there's a sophomore on my floor who likes to shave and leave hair all over the sink. Sometimes I wake up and there's so much hair I think that someone shaved a bear or something... that's just gross, respect the bathrooms

 

[notfred]

Well, I'm not bringing TV's or Stereos. I'm gonna have to find room for two PC's though. (one can go in the closet or wherever, it's just a webserver)

Any non-roommate ralated advice? My school wont even have all the room assignments finished for a few more days, so noone knows who my roomamte will be.

 

[kaiotes]

dorms suck@!!
i want my own room

 

[Sir Fredrick]

<< Another problem, there's a sophomore on my floor who likes to shave and leave hair all over the sink. Sometimes I wake up and there's so much hair I think that someone shaved a bear or something... that's just gross, respect the bathrooms >>



lol that happened to us too. My roomie and I solved the problem by puttig caution tape around this one corner area of the bathroom (this was the type that you share with the whole floor), and marked it as the designated shedding area.

anyway, bring lots of quarters...in college, quarters are nearly worth their weight in gold, also try to figure out everything you'll need and try to make your parents buy it for you before you leave. Once you're gone, they won't be buying much for ya anymore.

Note that trippy decorations such as blacklights and glow in the dark stuff only says one thing about you: "LOOK AT ME, I'M A FRESHMAN!" - you'll only be impressing other freshmen, and it'll get boring fast. save your money.

Inflatable furniture is the suck, don't bother with that either.

Try to leave your door open as much as possible (unless you really really need to study), it's much easier to make friends that way. Unfortunately, there are some people who will just walk into your room and talk your ear off until you die or kill them, and you have to risk that they'll see you in your room and start talking to you. But it's ok, really, you can completely ignore people like that and they'll still be happy. There was this girl who did that last year, I could study, talk on the phone with my GF, and go to sleep and she'd just keep on talking. Eventually they'll move on to find someone more lively if you can manage to be really boring for a long time.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I'm fairly sure that someone has already told you, but just in case; bring sandles to wear in the shower. Also, be wary of college food. I don't know what they put in the stuff, but it's a damn fine laxative whatever it is.

ZV

 

[wyvrn]

If you have a common shower, bring your own soap Just kidding, make sure you have flippers though. Sometimes people take a crap on the bathroom floors, especially if the dorm you are in is mostly freshmen and sophomores. If you get suite-mate bathrooms, make sure you lock the door on your side so they cannot come in and take stuff (had it happen ). Don't pour your ramen noodles down the sink, they do clog... Hmm see if I can think of anything else.

 

[AU Tiger]

make sure you set groundrules on proper attire. My freshman year I quickly got tired of seeing my roommate in his tighty whiteys and he played the same country song every morning while getting dressed. I moved to a new room after the first semester.

 

[MrBond]

<< make sure you set groundrules on proper attire. My freshman year I quickly got tired of seeing my roommate in his tighty whiteys >>

Indeed! I think my roomate from my freshman year only wore a shirt three times the entire time I lived with him.

If you're not doing it now, start getting in the habit of locking your workstation in XP/Win2k/whatever. If you're running something where you can't lock it, upgrade to an os where you can. Trust me on that, if your roomate has no computer, he'll be all over yours.

 

[Goldfish]

See, I don't have to worry about all this . My best friend since like 2nd grade (Goob2k) and I plan on rooming together next year at the University of Kentucky.

 

[notfred]

Is there any worry about people taking my stuff? I mean, all I won is clothes, PCs, DVDs, and cool electronic things like digital cameras and stuff. Most of it is easy to steal.

I hope I have an honest roommate.

 

[Heisenberg]

You might want to think about requesting a quiet floor if you get bothered by noise. It's a given that somebody will be blaring a stereo for most of the day and a good part of the night otherwise.

 

[bootymac]

kill your roomie then it'll be all right

 

[Elita1]

No matter who you room with, no matter how much privacy you get or find lacking, there are ALWAYS some adjustments you must make and things you must accept in order to live harmoniously.

A funny thing a roommate of mine and I used to do, out of courtesy is whenever we had to break wind(gasp, girls farting?) we'd stick our butts out the door, to keep the stink out of the rooms which were painfully small.
Hey, and it would clear up hallway traffic

 

[ander]

Make sure you bring the lube.

 

[worth]

Make sures those flaming liberals at Berkeley don't get you, notfred. Watch your cornhole.

 

[notfred]

<< Make sures those flaming liberals at Berkeley don't get you, notfred. Watch your cornhole. >>



not going to berkeley, but thatnks

 

[iamshady]

Yea, flippers are a necessity, so are rubbers... VERY important