Category: Roommates
Dealing With Roomate Drama: The High Road vs. The Low Road
I must say, I have had my share of roommate drama. My freshman year I lived in a dorm with 5 other girls, and my junior year (due to some emergency circumstances, aka a bad breakup) I ended up in a house with 8 other roommates (technically 9, if you count the practically-living-there boyfriend of one of the girls). And trust me, when there’s 9 or 10 people living in a house? You better learn how to deal with drama real quick, or there’s no way you’re ever going to make it out alive.
So for your convenience, I have narrowed down roommate drama to five easy-to-recognize categories, and have chosen two options for dealing with the drama: either the high road or the low road.
Doing the Dishes – These Pictures Couldn’t be More Accurate
Any college student that has ever been in the dorms or had a roommate will understand the truth that is presented in every single one of these pictures.
20 Questions to Get to Know Your Roommate
All of these questions will eventually develop into conversations that will really help you build some rapport with your roommate. Just make sure you’re not that “really annoying” roommate that administers these questions like he’s interviewing someone for a job.
50 Things That PISS Roommates Off
Taking any Increment of Food: Just because it was “only” a quarter bowl of cereal does not make it okay.
Taking Forever to get Money for Rent and Utilities: Maybe your landlord isn’t too stringent about on-time payment, and maybe they don’t require one check, BUT this is not an invitation to take your sweet time to write out a check. Chances are, one roommate is the conduit through which the household communicates with the landlord, and they are probably on the ball about their own payment, so it is just plain embarrassing to have to wait until the 10th to hand in all of the checks. Just make sure to have your money on time.
The Dishes Argument: Learning to Cohabitate Harmoniously with Roommates
“I don’t use the dishes, so I shouldn’t have to wash them!” This is a phrase uttered by roommates around the world. Unfortunately it is a sign of poor communication and cohabitation technique.
The Case for Keeping Your Room Clean.
I found a beer can in my shoe the other day. A man with higher expectations- a man more in tune with the norms that dictate our society; not me mind you – but a man like that – just might have been disgusted. Alas, I am a college student, and it takes more than [...]
