TIPS FOR LIVING WITH A PERSON ON CAMPUS

Written by dan the roommate man


One ofrepparttar more daunting aspects of survival at a residential school is dealing with your roommate. Not that it's particularly difficult, but it often looms overrepparttar 110543 impending school year. We want to make sure you're armed withrepparttar 110544 tools and techniques to effectively communicate and get along with your roommate.

The prelims: getting to know your roommate. You should always breakrepparttar 110545 ice--it's hard, sometimes, but after you do, you'll be glad you did!

Start with some easy questions like:

What's your family background?

What are some ofrepparttar 110546 activities you did during high school?

What are some of your hobbies?

What is your favorite subject in school?

When you first get in touch with your roommate, introduce yourself and share a little about yourself (try using some ofrepparttar 110547 questions above for starters). Ask some questions and find out what you have in common.

As time goes on, you and your roommate will figure each other out.

Yes, you will eventually learn what your roommate does and doesn't like, when he or she goes to bed and gets up inrepparttar 110548 morning, how loud he or she is when getting ready to go to class, how many guests he or she likes to have and how often, and so on.

It helps if you can think about how your react to things, so you can tell your roommate what to expect or watch for.

If you're upset by something, you'll probably do __________. You can be cheered up by __________. Please just leave you alone when __________. You get tense and nervous when __________. You get annoyed when __________. Any other ways you can help define yourself will only make it easier on you and your roommate.

TRUE ROOMMATE STORY-FILTH TAKEN TO A NEW LEVEL

Written by dan the roommate man


I think that I, along with one of my best friends, wererepparttar two worst roommates ever. We were legendary for our filth.

It was our sophomore year that we decided to live together. Each of us had problemsrepparttar 110542 year before becauserepparttar 110543 standards of our previous roommates were way too rigorous.

The students in our all-male dorm were primarily underclassmen so it was a pretty crappy place to begin with. You know how those places are ... puke inrepparttar 110544 bathroom that sits there for days; trash cans inrepparttar 110545 common areas filled with rotten food and beer cans; that urine smell that pervadesrepparttar 110546 entire dorm...Our room was much, much worse. What started out as simply messy turned into a biohazard.

It started out as a contest to determine who was lazier. We thought it would be funny to see who could come up withrepparttar 110547 most comically absurd way to do something withrepparttar 110548 least amount of work.

It started with throwingrepparttar 110549 daily newspaper onrepparttar 110550 floor when we were done with it. This being funny for all of two seconds we progressed to empty pizza boxes and rough drafts of papers. After a week we started adding our beer bottles and cans torepparttar 110551 mix. (Now you have to understand that we were drinking very heavily. I was drinking nearly seven or eight quarts of Magnum malt liquor a day, and he was contributing vast numbers of cans).

When cold season came around we would add our snot rags. When I coughed up flim I would spit it ontorepparttar 110552 heap. It was not unusual for one of us to drink too much and vomit in bed. Inrepparttar 110553 morning we would simply scraperepparttar 110554 vomit ontorepparttar 110555 floor and turnrepparttar 110556 mattress over (neither one of us used sheets).

I think that one night, after watching "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" we decided that since we were living like cavemen our dorm room should be as cave-like as possible. We got some black plastic sheeting and coveredrepparttar 110557 single window in our room, sealing it with tape so that no light could get in. The downside was that we could no longer openrepparttar 110558 window to let in fresh air. That's when it began to stink. When rotten beer but sits out for a few days it begins to smell like vinegar. Allrepparttar 110559 half-drunk cans lying aroundrepparttar 110560 room would get knocked over and spill this foul, sticky sludge all over our already stinky stuff. Without fresh airrepparttar 110561 room got even worse.

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