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Roommate hell

I recommend the two sane roommates eat beans like crazy and fart all night and every night. Let Miss Top Bunk enjoy that for starters. I'd comb my nether region with her toothbrush whenever she was out of the room. I'd put a little itching powder in her bed. I would make her life a living hell.
 
You are soooo bad, Risky. That toothbrush idea would be so secretively satisfying, wouldn't it? And why stop there? Why not clean the underside of the toilet seat with it? :mrgreen:

You're a corrupting influence, you are. :3oops:
 
nota bene said:
Welcome to the world of Little Miss Entitled: Dramatic Exchange Between Future College Roommates and 'Time Bomb' : People.com
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I come from a Euro immigrant background, having grown-up in a working-class inner-city immigrant neighborhood in one of the largest cities in the nation. This city has two elite world-class near Ivys, several other nationally well ranked universities, and a plethora of smaller universities, colleges, and tech institutes. With my parents' and the neighborhood's moderate economic condition, those of us that went on to the university or college all commuted. No way would our parents pay extra for dorms, when we could simply hop on a bus or el and be at school in a short period of time. Most couldn't afford the luxury of a dorm, and even if they could they didn't see the value.

So having benefited from my parents' sacrifice in providing me an (commuter) education, and having married a hard-working sensible women, we had acquired reasonable financial wherewithal where I felt compelled to give my kids the "going away to college" experience I never had! In our daughter's case, it was "going away" to a very good small liberal arts college on the other side of the city. It was my kid's pick, the nursing program was extremely well-ranked nationally and arguably the best in the state (that was the draw), and she got a great scholarship award - 50% tuition with *free* dorm! How could we resist?

The school & education were excellent, but the dorm-life? What a joke!

While it wasn't a disaster, I'm completely blown away by the messes that came through my kid's dorm. There were two bedrooms in each suite, two girls per bedroom, so four total per suite. Over the four years, some of the kids were from out of state, some from the suburbs, and enough were pretty well-off, if not affluent. With only a few exceptions, these kids were selfish, self-centered, naive & immature entitled brats! Who would think that taking kids from financially well-off parents who had never been on their own and had Mommy & Daddy taking catering to them all their lives, and throwing a bunch of them together with no parents to mediate, would be a good idea? Not me, I assure you!

These kids used their parents, partied away & slacked, and saw their dorm as an entitlement to get away from their parents on their parents' dime! Many for the most part didn't even like their parents, but happily used them for all they were worth. Two flunked-out, one got pregnant, one ran away, and another moved in with her boy friend saying sayonara to school and her parents! One was great, and as a family we all still stay in touch with her, while a couple were O.K. I guess. My daughter stays in touch with two of them.

I've since talked to quite a few parents over the years, and I'm coming to the conclusion that this 'dorm away' thing is way over-rated, at least at the undergrad level. I'm sure some kids have the maturity, and some appreciate their parents' sacrifices to send them away. But if you live in Chicago, NY, Boston, or a city with the equivalent in higher education resources, I'd think hard and long if there's really a reason for your kid to go away. My next in-line kid was considering the very well-ranked and competitive undergrad business program at Boston College. He's academically strong and seems very mature, and if he continued having his heart set on it for the right reasons, I would've helped him go (he instead decided to do a 2+2 program locally). But if your kid just wants to "go somewhere" because their friends are doing it, I think I'd want to see a more substantive reason.

/end rant

TL;DR This kid isn't at all unusual
 
I hope that this went viral because it's atypical, sigh. But I hear this girl's parents telling her all her life to stand up for herself and what she deserves. Because she's special. I really do.
 
nota bene said:
I hope that this went viral because it's atypical, sigh. But I hear this girl's parents telling her all her life to stand up for herself and what she deserves. Because she's special. I really do.
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Nothin' wrong with telling them to stand up for what they deserve. The problem comes when they fail to define what "deserve" means.

What absolute hell on wheels. I'm with Risky, personally. Make it so bad she runs screaming back to her parents.
 
That's why I said, "Because she's special."
 
I tried dorming it for 6 months in my first year, then quickly realized I could get a nice pad off campus with a roomie of my choice and just commute to school. It was way better. My college at the time didn't really give you a choice of who you got roomed with, they just put you with people based on a very basic profile. My roomies weren't bad, or partiers, but... the place was always a pig stye and they were dull people. And the dorm was really expensive for what you got.

I agree with Chomsky, living on campus is overrated. I know a lot of campuses are designed like wonder lands now but if you're just there to study then it makes more sense to not live in mouth breather central.
 
Ikari said:
Or maybe with the way that the academic environment is changing, she may find a home.
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"My dorm is my safe space, that includes being safe from arguments regarding my entitlements that may not go my way. So bow down to your queen or get triggered!"
 
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