This thread is about everything to do with roommates...see it's been on my mind for the last couple of days (or rather weeks.) because I move into my dormitory tomorrow, and I meet my new roommate for the first time.

I'm a little nervous.

So let's talk about roommates, do/did you have one? Any bad experiences, or good experiences? Do you spell it with one m or two? Stuff like that.

I lived in halls last year, my flatmates were awful they didn't clean up after themselves, the kitchen was full of food stains from them spilling stuff and not wiping the counter. The shower kept getting clogged up because they didn't clean their hair out of the plug hole and one of them at the beginning of the year kept giving her keys to her boyfriend and he would just let himself in.

I also lived in halls in first year, that was much better because I was with all first years and we were all really considerate of each other and asked before we brought boyfriends over to stay so it wasn't a giant surprise walking to the kitchen and a boy in his boxers coming out of the bathroom.

...Well I live on a co-ed floor so I don't know what's in store. But that sounds really gross.

I was in an all girl flat because I asked not to be put with boys because I've seen the way they live and I ended up living with girls who were exactly the same as guys. First year was all right though since we were all first years, last year I was with 2nd years and 3rd years as well as first years so they weren't quite as considerate.

Hm, closest I've come to having roommates was at the few times I went to camp. All those times I was in a cabin/room with people I've known and had known before then for years. Still, even though it was some of my closest friends, we all had to figure out how to live with each other stuffed in one cabin (it was about 12 girls, but three consolers to the cabin). Of course, this is nothing like a college dormitory, so I can see how this would be nerve racking for you. I'd be really scared of having a roommate.

Freshman year I lived in a co-ed floor, but everyone from my school. (there are two schools on campus, SU and ESF) My roommate and I were both out of staters and we got along fine for the most part. Both very colorful and loud obnoxious people. However and this was where we disagreed, she needed ABSOLUTE silence to study. I mean she had ear plugs and ear phones and the room silent to study. I need some sort of distraction to study, it sounds strange, but if there isn't music or the tv going on in the back ground I will find a distraction and won't get ANYTHING done. And that's where we didn't get along and weren't roommates after that.
My second year, I HATED my roommate. I was an ESF student and she was a SU student, we never got along. the first time she met me she went on about all the things she didn't like about ESF kids. seriously? I was right there, she was telling it to me. She had NO manners and would let food rot in the room, she was ALWAYS on the phone, and would ask ridiculous things of me, once she asked me to not make a single noise while she was interviewing someone for a project. I shifted and she yelled at me. She would use me as a catching basin for all her complaints, and if I ever said a single thing about anything she would call me out on it. But the worst thing she had done was the night before finals, I had two tests that morning and I asked her to keep it down as I needed sleep, she proceeded to make a phone call at midnight and it lasted past 3am... OH I MOVED OUT AFTER THAT.
My roommate now is a DEAR! I love her, we get along very well. my only qualm about her is that she is a fanatic cat person and I am a dog person, so I just don't care about this cat or that cat or the knick knack cat things. But we cook together, hang out together, chat to each other on aim only a foot away from each other.
Sometimes you get crap sometimes you hit gold. but you can always change that too.

Wow. Roommates.

My first year was okay, they were nice and we got along pretty well, though it was rather crowded because we had six people living in one room.

Second year was awful. I got sorted into a room with three other people that are not from my class...two are from the same department but in a different grade (they are one year above me) and another one was in the Taiwanese department. All of our personalities are completely different. And naturally we clashed. Badly.
I'm okay with the one from the Taiwanese department since we sometimes chat and we're okay when we're doing our own stuff...the other one is also okay though she can sometimes be a bit loud. The last one...sitting behind me...was the worst. She walks very loudly, I can hear her halfway down the hall in her slippers. She likes to play her music very loud and sing along with it. She likes to watch a bunch of TV shows on her computer and have it up very loud too, because 'ear/headphones are bad for your ears', despite the shows being all horribly boring and interrupting with what I'm trying to do at my desk. She and the other two likes to put on nail polish every few weeks, but when I mentioned how the fumes were poisonous and would harm our health to the one from the Taiwanese department, she turns around and starts yelling at me for eating instant noodles at night which, apparently "smells too good and wakes her up in her bed and gets her all hungry too". Um. Excuse me. At least the scent of my instant noodles does not cause diseases like...CANCER??? She's always complaining about things. Loudly. She bangs around all the time, but she actually had the nerve to yell at me about me clicking my mouse and typing on my keyboard too loudly. Like what the fuck.

I'm so glad that year is over.
Though now I'm onto my third year and due to certain complexities in class I'm not sure how this year will turn out because another classmate tried to get into the room I'm in by attempting to tell me how bad her disease was and that she wanted to be in the room and that I should move out to live in her room instead, which is with three other people from different departments. I told her no and now she's giving me dirty looks everytime I pass by her and completely ignoring me. Well excuse me for not wanting to live with people from different departments/different grades again! Just because you've got a problem, you can't expect everyone in the world to be all nice and do things your way. You're not a fucking princess in a fairy tale where everyone dotes on you.
Unfortunately, she's pretty good friends with someone in the room, and from her personality I'm sure she'll be bad mouthing me from now on. As she apparently already has begun. Makes me really look forward to moving back into the dorms in a couple of weeks now. *sigh*

As Longcat (I'll leave out a few o's here xD) said, it's all down to luck. You might get some that are awesome, but there's also the chance of hitting a truck load of crap. I wish you luck in getting some cool roommates :3

My freshman year started out with me being part of a forced triple in a double sized room. Everything was going fine, we had all our stuff equaled out and everything but a week later they came to me and told me that they wanted me to move out. They said "Your nice and everything, but we just don't have enough in common."

The only rooms available were upstairs aka Party central. Eventually, they started to move my stuff. After a firm 'no, that is against the law and they can't don that' from the Resident Director I got to move in with a acquaintance from a program I had done for two summers prior known as Upward Bound. Cloud as she came to be called by yours truly were like two pea's in a pod. The move was epic though. Five girls, one night, 55 MINUTES before quiet hours! >o< By the time everyone else was moving in, I had five minutes before I could move in, but we made it! xD Even my manga collection survived!

So yeah, we ended up making a Japanese culture and Anime club and became really good friends. She is still in Maine while I'm here in Hawaii but, ya know. There's always the summer time! :3 My next roommate was and is my girlfriend Nena. *snuggle* And she's wonderful of course!

I have 5 other roommates in the apartment, and they like to keep to themselves since they all go to school together and play basketball on the team there and all. I hope we can at least tolerate each other in a nice manner.

Here's hoping!

When I lived in the dorms my roommate at first seemed chill and we'd get along. Then she turned into evil bitch of the North (excuse the crude word). Anyhow, she was calling me all the time to come sleep in our room. Usually I would go but I need "time" with my boyfriend and it started to conflict. She would freak out at me when I didn't come home on the weekends too. I like to party and y'know see other people. She didn't have a lot of friends and I invited her a lot but she never wanted to go and depended solely on me. Towards the end of the quarter I noticed a lot of the food I had bought for myself was gone. She had been eating my food that cost me money! That was it, the demands, the calls, using my computer was it! We got in a huge fight and she left. End of story.
I am now going into my second year and I got a house and i have my own room...should be betterl.^^

So I've moved into residence and my roommate is actually pretty chill with everything, he seems to be alot like me.

That's good to know ^_^

I'm moving back to the dorms in a few days too, and totally dreading it >.>

I'm going to have three new roommates soon. I'm excited, nervous... and hoping we all get along. The problem I see is that they are all very conservative(I've already met them on face book) and I'm like..totally not.. I think the college based pairing us together because we all like to read..and just that fact.. that we like to read.. and none of us smoke..well that is.. none of us were suppose to smoke but one of them lied on their application ^^''

My roommate's really nice. She's a Christian like me (although she's Baptist and I'm Catholic, it fortunately doesn't really matter to either of us), and she's also Pro-Life like me (which was a nice revelation when I asked her [see my sig as to why I asked in the first place, as I know it's a touchy subject]). We also both like to write. We don't have a lot in common otherwise (one thing is her being a light sleeper and me sleeping like a rock; I like anime and fantasy, she doesn't), but it's okay. ^__^ We talk and everything and like each other enough to not have gone to the "change roommates mixer" they had a couple days ago. I don't think we're going to become really close friends or whatever; probably we won't be dorming together next year, so I hope I get someone nice next year as well.

I have one and well, we're not best friends. I always hoped that I would get a room mate who would be my bff for life, but that didn't happen. We're very different and a lot a like at the same time. She's a party girl, I prefer to stay in the room (which means I get the room to myself a lot :D) But we both need it to be super quiet in order to study and we both get up early, except on the weekends, but so far she hasn't spend a weekend night in the room, she has other friends she hangs out with.

I guess we can tolerate each other, but I really hoped for a good friend, instead I made friends with some girls two floors above me, I wish I had gotten a room up there as well, so much easier to visit and hang with them :D

I've had two roommates when I was at art college. Neither were good experiences.

First roommate- you know that skanky cheerleader type, the type with no brains, always out partying, and never with the same guy twice? Yeah, that was her. Took over a vast majority of the room with her crap (I don't think I ever saw her wear the same thing twice), was very impolite overall, and was a brainless drama queen. Oh, and she brought a different guy back to her room every night. Every. Night. They'd get all gross and cuddly while I was in there trying to work, as I was never one to leave the room. I stopped that by playing Street Fighter II on my PS2 whenever she and the boy du jour came back. The guys would get all excited that "oh man your roommate has Street Fighter II? AWESOME" and ignore her. She threw a fit over that and never brought a guy back again!

Partway through the semester she moved in with a friend. That brought me to the second roommate, who was... I still don't know if she was worse.

Roommate number two was vaguely a friend of mine, the kind of friend one can only tolerate in small doses. We had similar interests and everything, but she was the sort of person who HAD to be in control of EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING had to go her way. Want to watch a movie she didn't like? No way. Gotta go find somewhere else to watch it. I had a friend she didn't like either at the time. She purposely lied to try and turn him against me. I'm still bitter about that, even if he did turn out to be a jerk.

Since everything had to be HER way, she had all our friends over to watch TV every.freaking.night. Now getting together with friends to watch TV is okay. I'm all for that. but EVERY night? In OUR room, no less? It was terrible. I couldn't work because he had half a dozen girls over every night, filling up the place, giving me no place or quiet to work with. If it had been a rotating "Okay, tonight we'll go hang out in room A, then room B tomorrow and room C after" there would have been no issue. But no. Our room. every night. It was awful. It wasn't until I broke down and we had a screaming match that things kind of worked out. Still wasn't good, but it was.... better.

After that second semester though I left that school in general disgust. Since then I've been living with family members and commuting from school there. not only does it save money, but I will never get a roommate again. Ever. Sure I know I'll miss out on potential friends, but I'll never have to go through that garbage ever again.

That reeeeeeeeally sucks! You know what you do to scare them? Hide a Seagull somewhere in their room and feed it an alka seltzer tablet and they blow up. Hehehe. I learned that in science

Getting a room mate is like playing Russian Roulette. Even when you have a choice in the matter, people you really like as friends can turn out to be horrible housemates.

Not that you don't also have the random odds of getting a great roomate who you become best friends with as well as the unreliable, non-bill paying/cleaning/respecting your privacy and property people.

I'm currently in my first year of college and my friend and I decided to be roommates. :\ Now I wish I had just gotten an apartment by myself. I can't stand when I hear her and her bf making out on her bed. It just uber grosses me out since i'm friends with them both. And I also hate it when she plays her music loudly. I swear that girl only listens to like 4 bands. And only their songs. ON REPEAT. Oh... and then REPEAT. And just for fun... Let's listen to some more of that first band! XD You get my point. Also it bothers me because when she throws things away, she'll miss the trashcan and just... leave the trash there. And i end up picking it up. DX Also when I want to go to bed I usually just have to turn HER light off. But if she tries to go to bed first she gets all bitchy if i don't turn my light off RIGHT THEN. But enough ranting!!

Next year I will have a different style of housing and I will have a much better friend as a roomie. :D So ONLY room with someone you KNOW you won't end up hating. Ok? XD

Yeah, room mates can be a crap shoot. Get the book "Please Understand Me" and use it to help you choose a room mate who will have a temperament that is compatible with you.

I have horror stories of roommates.

My first was someone I dated, big mistake.
Second was an artist who was one of the biggest slobs on earth.
The next was a someone who turned out to be a pedophile, I made him move out.
Number four was a girl friend whom I should have never roomed with, we were too much alike.
Number five currently is so annoying and I try not to be at the apartment as much as possible.
Finding a good roommate is so hard.
Not many good ones.

When I attended college, I had a large number of roommates, some of them from other countries.

There were good ones and bad ones, but in the end I was simply happier in a single, and I was lucky enough to find a room that was too small to be anything else. I've had roommates who brought boyfriends over, who once locked me out of our room, who left school after getting pregnant, and a few who suffered from emotional problems.

My personal advice is to talk with the potential roommate before moving in and determine just what your schedules are, your personal tastes, habits, etc. You might even want to make a list.

Then you can decide if it'll work out between you. Good luck.

My roommate has been rather moody lately. He's got this horrible attitude and he's been snapping at me and calling me names... there is a lot of stress between he and my mother, so he's taking it out on me.

i spell it with two "m's".
i used to be okay with roommates. now that i've had 2 or 3...i won't do roommates ever again. i just can't deal with people in my space like that. i have a very large personal bubble.

I don't live in a dorm, so I don't have a roommate, no.
But all of my friends that live on campus have roommates, except one.
Most of them don't have problems with their roommates.
If they do, the problems are usually fixable, like laundry times and things like that.
They can sort that out fine.
Most of my friends have problems with people in other dorms in their halls.

Apparently, one girl has a problem with a girl down the hall playing Miley Cyrus really loud at two in the morning.
Another has people running up and down the halls late at night while others are trying to sleep.

This is "fixed" by the rest of the hall mates messing with their rooms.
Someone got a bag and put it under the girl's door while she was singing Miley Cyrus, then stepped on it, causing the contents inside to spray all over the room and the girl. (The contents was shaving cream.)
Then the person ran off.
I don't think that girl knows who did it, to this day.

the only good roommate experience I've had was living with my current boyfriend. :P