It's the College Life For Greenday!

[Greenday]

Well, I moved in on Thursday, the 24th. I love it. I'm finally done with the orientation crap. I really didn't talk to anyone until Friday. I've met so many people now. Been shooting a lot of pool downstairs. It's so awesome.

Tomorrow I start my classes. I have Calc I twice on Mondays and also a Chem I class. Tad odd but whatever. Tuesdays I have Math Stats and Effective Writing. Wednesdays I have my Chem I lab, Calc I, and Chem I. Thursdays are the same as Tuesdays. Fridays are just one Calc I class and one Chem I class. It's cool though, on Tuesdays and Thursdays my last class ends at 10:45am. That'll be sweet.

As for my roommate, he's ok. He's in marching band and I never know where the hell he is. He's always off doing stuff with the other kids from the marching band. It's a freaking cult, I'm convinced. The other kids stuck rooming with kids from marching band agree. They almost never see my roommate. I mean, I don't mind having the dorm practically to myself, but it sucks cause if I want to go somewhere, I have no roommate to go with. He doesn't drink, so he'd never go to any of the parties I would go to. He likes to talk late at night when we are both in our beds. I like to sleep when we are in our beds. AND, to top it all off, he doesn't freaking wake up from his stupid alarm! He uses the freaking buzz alarm, which I HATE. I love the radio, much rather wake up to music or talkshow stuff. The other day, he had his alarm set for 6:45am. He didn't wake up. I woke him up and he set his snooze for 15 minutes. He hit his snooze a total of THREE times. And the first three times his alarm went off, it didn't wake him up. The last time it went off, I got out of bed and went to backhand him across the face but he actually woke up that time. Next time he doesn't freaking wake up from his alarm, I'm unplugging it. Maybe that will teach him to not keep hitting the snooze button and keep waking me up. This morning he woke me up at 10:30 in the morning. It's Sunday, I wanted to sleep in REALLY late. He wasn't trying to be quiet or anything. If he doesn't wake up from his alarm tomorrow, I'm talking to him about it. If I can't work this out, I'm going to apply for a roommate switch. Maybe he can be with some other marching band kid and I can be with someone normal.

[CanadaGirl]

Dorms are weird, which is why I have an apartment! :D

[Greenday]

It's my freshman year, I'm pretty much stuck in the dorms. I like it. Last night I just went from floor to floor in my dorm and walked into any room with an open door. Met so many cool people that way.

[Fashion Lad!]

Been shooting a lot of people downstairs.


Obviously campus security is really lax...

[Greenday]

Obviously campus security is really lax...

Not really actually, someone just got arrested on the 8th floor in my dorm for underage drinking. Come on, if you are drinking in your dorm, just don't be so freaking obvious about it. No one cares as long as you aren't stupid about it.

Thanks for picking out my typo.

[Ree]

Congrats and good luck in college, Greenday. I hope you can work things out with the roommate situation.

My daughter was in a dorm last year.

She loved it except for the fact that she had a really lousy dorm mate.
The girl was rude, inconsiderate and an absolute slob. One morning she spilled jam on the floor and my daughter stepped in it.
When my daughter got home from classes that night, the blotch of jam was still there, so she ended up scrubbing the floor with no help.

Most evenings, she brought her boyfriend back to the room and slept with him, with my daughter being separated from them by only a bookshelf. He lived in the same dorm down the hall, but they never used his room.

She couldn't be comfortable in her own room. Because the girl was an absolute psycho, my daughter didn't dare to complain or her life was hell, but this chick complained all the time about my daughter.

One time, my daughter had friends over, and one of them wrote a message on the other girl's memo board. When my daughter got back after the weekend, all the girl's stuff was packed away and she had taken down the curtains that my daughter had lent her and put them in my daughter's storage.
She had even packed away all the movies that they had both been sharing.

She made this big deal about my daughter not respecting her privacy.

So, yeah, it was very one-sided. Because the girl's younger brother was one of my daughter's best friends, she didn't want to make waves.
She found out after from the guy that he wasn't any more impressed by his sister than my daughter was.

Anyway, she switched to a new program and a new school here in our town, so she doesn't have to worry about stuff like that now.

[Fashion Lad!]

Not really actually, someone just got arrested on the 8th floor in my dorm for underage drinking. Come on, if you are drinking in your dorm, just don't be so freaking obvious about it. No one cares as long as you aren't stupid about it.

Thanks for picking out my typo.

I'm actually not allowed into the St. Cloud University dorms because I was kicked out for drinking and I didn't even go to school there. So, that narrows my 4-year schools down a bit.

It was a funny typo. :p

[ArenaBoy]

I'm living at home, there's a very good 4 year that's a 20 minute drive for me and its as good as big name colleges. That and the school I wanted to go to, would involve me running into people from high school that I hated. Ah well, didn't know you were 06 Greenday, I am too. :)

[obod7x7]

He's in marching band and I never know where the hell he is. He's always off doing stuff with the other kids from the marching band. It's a freaking cult, I'm convinced.

....

Maybe he can be with some other marching band kid and I can be with someone normal.

I don't know if you're trying to disrespect kids in marching band, but it sounds like it. Typical attitude of a typical high school/college student. There is a reason band kids hang out with other band kids...everyone else makes fun of them for not being "normal."

Anyways...I hope you have the best of luck in college. Make sure you don't start slacking...it can screw you up really fast. Getting through the first year is the hardest because you have a lot of the general education classes. They get boring and annoying very fast, just push through them. Hopefully your roommate situation improves.

[Ree]

I don't know if you're trying to disrespect kids in marching band, but it sounds like it. Typical attitude of a typical high school/college student. There is a reason band kids hang out with other band kids...everyone else makes fun of them for not being "normal."I would hope Greenday didn't mean to be disrespectful of "band kids", but I can see how that comment did sound a little flippant.
I apologize for not catching that one, and I'm sorry if you were upset by it, obod.

You're right that there is a certain snobbiness against kids who are in the band, yet where would the schools be without their services during school assemblies and drama presentations or even sporting events?

I think the little cliques and hanging out together can be said for most groups of students with like-minded interests.

[Greenday]

Making fun of band geeks? Never. I was in band from 3rd grade through 12th and I'm still thinking about joining my school's pep band for basketball. I did concert band, I did jazz band, and I did pep band before. But I always had friends that were in band and friends that weren't. I've just always noticed that most of the kids in marching band always seem to stick together, never really branching out to other kids. Most kids I went to school never had anything against marching band, just the marching band kids never seemed to try to associate with the rest of the school.

[ArenaBoy]

Greenday, I do agree on the fact that they don't branch out at all. I had a friend who was in band but he always branched out, he did use his band locker just for the extra space.

[obod7x7]

I'm sorry for my overreaction. I guess I am used to being extremely defensive due to the life I led in high school (it wasn't fun...I was a "band nerd"). I was in the marching band and I am currently an instructor for one. I do agree with you that some kids in marching band don't branch out to others, but certainly not all. Though, it sounds like that is the case at your college.

Sorry to pull this thread off the topic it was intended for.

To get back on topic, I totally understand your roommate dilemma. My girlfriend went through three of them last year. The first one just randomly adandonned her halfway through the semester. They got along, I just guess their social lives didn't mix. Her next roommate was very obnoxious...she would use my girlfriend's computer all the time without getting permission and would listen to the TV extremely loudly (with annoying music). Her third one worked out (and is still doing so) because they were friends before moving in with one another.

I guess it takes a few tries for some people.

[Lehk]

Her next roommate was very obnoxious...she would use my girlfriend's computer all the time without getting permission

that is what passwords are for.

meta-L to lock a windows machine

[Greenday]

Yea, I stuck a password on my laptop the second I got it. I don't want ANYONE snooping on it. Doesn't matter what's on it, good or bad, I don't like people going through my stuff.

And obod, there isn't too much off-topic for this thread. It's pretty much just about going to college. I feel your pain for being labeled a nerd. I pretty much was given the label because I didn't go out every night, get drunk, and get high. You weren't that popular at my school if you didn't do that stuff and you had opinions of your own. That's why I love it so much here. I can be myself and everyone is cool about it.

[Sunsetsky]

I wish we had a marching band at this school. They only have a pep band and they don't allow woodwinds in it. I would join it in a heartbeat if they did. Of course...I would need to get an instrument first. Band members at my school never got made fun of. We were actually quite respected.

Anyways, good luck with school. Maybe you can talk to your roommate and work things out. If things don't work out at all then you should be able to request a new room.

[Caveat Emptor]

And this one time, at band camp...

Sorry, had to add that :D

My freshman year roommate was everything I was not. He smoked (although not in the room, smoke detector and all that), chewed tobacco (as did a number of PA natives there), pledged a frat and would come in drunk at 3am. I tried to get to bed latest by 11pm as I had an 8am class (he was in the SAME class I only recall him there a handful of times...hmmmm, wonder why?) and he once COMPLAINED to me that I was going to bed TOO EARLY :eek: to which I replied that I actually came to COLLEGE to get an EDUCATION. He "made it" into his fraternity and called his GF and kept repeating "....cause I'm a brother!!"

Yeah, a brother with a 1.8 GPA and academic probation, dipwad!!! :rolleyes:

I had an on-campus apt for the next three years...ALONE!

[RapidPad0]

Ah, college.

College is by far the best experience I've had in life. Sad to say I'm in my senior year and it'll soon be all over. :(

The sad thing about college though is (at least for me) you see people come and go CONSTANTLY. It seems like I always grow fond of someone who's going to mess up and be gone the next year. One of my really good friends had to leave because of money issues. But then... you get to meet other cool people.

As for roomates, they're like 50/50. My first roommate was cool but we had nothing in common. Unfortunately I was the annoying one my freshman year who'd come in retardedly intoxicated at ungodly hours the first semester but after that I was better. Bless her for putting up with me!

My second roomate was an absolue slob and bitch on top of that. I'd have a lot of people in the dorm sometimes and she'd be very rude to my friends. But whenever her friends were over I'd insist on making them comfortable and allowing them to sit on my bed and stuff. She ruined my very nice carpet by spilling all kinds of stuff (like blue LAUNDRY DETERGENT) on it and not even TRYING to clean it up.

Junior year, got an apartment with 3 friends. 2 were fine, but one ....... Let's just say everyone who lived with her is still recovering from that one.

Now... bigger and better apartment with 2 friends, 1 stranger I don't really know who shares a room with me. So far so good...

Good luck at the college scene Greenday. It's really fun.

[AFpheonix]

Heh...Greenday, it's time to get a squirtgun to help "augment" you roomie's alarm, eh?

My roommate pretty much moved in with her boyfriend after about 3 weeks, so I pretty much had the room to myself. They broke up part way through spring semester, about when I was spending a lot of time with future hubby, and she'd whine that she was "all by herself". Uh....what do you think you did to me?

Then we got an apartment together in the Ghetto Complex, and again she moved into a new boyfriend's place...I wouldn't sleep there by myself, the police were there about every other night for various tenants. She still paid half the rent though, even though she was never there....

[Greenday]

I got my revenge on my roommate for always waking me up early. I turned my radio up really loud so it'd wake him up when it went off. And it worked! Sweet, sweet revenge.

[protege]

My roommate freshman year was a bastard. And yes, I'm trying to be nice :roll:

His 14-year-old girlfriend (:eek: don't even get me started on why someone nearly 20 can't land someone their own age...) would call every morning at 6am, and complain because "nobody liked her." Gee, if you call people every damn morning at 6am, I can understand why!

Then there's the *many* times he would brag about how "wealthy" his family was. But, get this. Even though his parents could afford it, he was driving around in a car that had been *salvaged* from the local scrapyard!

He got what was coming though. After one time too many of coming home drunk, several neighbors got even with him. I have no idea why, but he'd sometimes forget to lock the door after one of his drunken adventures. This one night though, he made some *serious* noise, and pissed off several people. They got even--they wrapped his drunken ass in a sheet, and then stapled it to his wooden bedframe. Now *that* made my night :roll:

[Tanasi]

My oldest daughter is a sophmore this year and moved out a few weeks ago. Somehow between her and 4 friends they found someone stupid enough to rent them a house near campus. Since daughter dear doesn't have a car and won't go shop for one she needed to be close enough to walk or bike to class. I don't know how long this arrangement will last but we're a few minutes away and she comes home for weekends.

When I was in school I liked the dorms. I really didn't have many problems with roommates. I was 5 years older than the kids so they left me alone. My sophmore and junior years I was an RA and had a private room. Senior year and grad school I was a dorm director.:)

I had a couple of kids on my floor junior year that would not be quite, they were raising heck at all hours. I waited until they were recovering from a big bender early one morning and I shoved a string of 5000 fire-crackers under their door (no carpet) and lite the fuse. The moved the following Monday.:angel:

[Greenday]

This sucks. Everyone is going home for the three day weekend. I was going to stay, since it's so awesome hanging out with the people here. But it's basically me and two other kids here right now. My parents are on their way here at the second. Should be here around 9:15-9:30 then I'm coming back to NJ.

[Spiffy McMoron]

This story brought to mind the tale of E!

E just happens to be the older brother of C, made (in)famous in the War Story A New Low in Customer Service (http://www.customerssuck.com/index.php?categoryid=10&p2000_articleid=2). E and I went to the same college, although not at the same time-he went one year before I started, but I had met him when he was in college.

E shared a dorm room with a friend we all called Frankenray (he moved slowly and tended to shuffle around, like Frankenstein). While they both lived in dorms, E managed to pee in Frankenrays laundry hamper, and had brought his 14-year-old girlfriends (He only had one at a time, but he would only pick up women at the local high school. We didn't want anything to do with that) over for a couple of nights. Frankenray could manage with that. What he could not manage was the smell.

E was from a small farming town nearby. Apparently, his father built a sizable house for the family, in the middle of a field, fairly far away from the nearest town. The patriarch of the family was partially done construction, when he looked into the price of getting gas and electricity hooked up. The father did not like the prices that he was given, so he decided to not have these luxuries put into the house. Yes, this brand new house was built, and did not have gas or electricity hooked up to it.

Now, I've always taken that story with a grain of salt, but one thing that was undeniable was the smell of E. He avioded showers and bathing, and was no big fan of deodorant. His naturally creepy bad looks were not helped by the natural greases and oils that would accumulate, and apparently even the neighbours would even start to complain about the smell. So a plan was born: When the smell of E went south of cheese, Frankenray and the neighbours would wait until E was sleeping, and pounce on him. Wrapping him in the sheets, they would carry him to the showers, turn on the water, and force him to shower. Bedtime was not his, until he was squeaky clean.

Thankfully for all concerned, this did not last too long. He ended up dropping out after his first year, to work at McDonald's. Last I heard, he was fired from McDonald's, and his roommates had thrown all of his stuff out onto the front lawn in a bid to get him out of the house. But that was a while ago, so what's really new is unknown to me.