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[punkdhiver]

Think Outside the Box
Before moving into the dorms my freshman year, I was really apprehensive about having a roommate. In such close quarters, especially for an obsessive-compulsive like me, living with someone in a dorm can easily become a torture one might find in the seventh ring of hell. But since the UCLA roommate survey boasted of its high

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[arizonadogg]

Wow...I thought I had it bad with the oversexed frat boy my freshman year (When there is a sock on the door, don't come in, I'm probably getting a *insert crude sex act here*) or my sophomore year when I had the exchange student from Tanzania who ate buffalo wings at 2 am...good times....

[allamericanjock]

Hey! I was an oversexed frat boy my freshman year! So don't knock it.

[viftrup]

only your freshman year? ;)

[allamericanjock]

Naw... you're right. Who am I kidding?

I'm still an over-sexed frat boy.

[mypaganpoetry]

I applaud you for showing an amazing amount of patience with the poor guy. It's people like that who are the reason for roommate contracts. And hired hitmen.

My freshman year here in Berkeley, I lived in the LGBT theme program, and my roommate liked to rifle through my things and secretly use my computer to hook up with old men on gay.com. I pretended not to notice and we're still fast friends.

[punkdhiver]

Oh goodness, that would have been the only worse arrangement -- living on such a floor.

Gay guys generally don't make good roommates - I have found them to be noticeably flaky. Unless they have a huge collection of Star Trek episodes, that is.

[mypaganpoetry]

You know, strangely, I find that most people who have a large collection of Buffy Episodes tend to be quite pleasant also.

And once we learned to leave each other alone, save for the occasional grunts to acknowledge one another's exsistence, then theme floor wasn't that unbearable.

[punkdhiver]

I'm just glad grunting is a socially-acceptable form of greeting, because how else would I be polite to people I don't like?

It's okay to cry...

[tres_faux]

And to think you may never see him again!

Re: It's okay to cry...

[punkdhiver]

I see him around every so often, usually looking grumpy and disheveled. He's really, really a strange person.

[screwbacca]

If anyone I kind of know from the Internet deserves a FOX sitcom about their life, it is you good sir.

[matintin]

Oh, snap!

[punkdhiver]

Well thank you for assuming I'm interesting enough to make network teevee, but you give me too much credit.

[allamericanjock]

I think they probably purposely pair people up with opposites, as part of that whole "broadening people's horizons" thing that colleges are so fond of. Clearly, to get someone like yourself, you should have put down that you were an introverted, Dilbert-loving orthodox Jew.

Most of the time I lived on campus in college, I spent living on the Fraternity Quad, so it wasn't bad.... I only had to deal with the random-pairing in a dorm room my freshman year.

Not that living in the fraternity house was idyllic perfection, or anything, though. For example, there was the semester I roomed with Tok, an asian guy who was soooo subconsciously obsessed with how much bigger my dick was than his that it somehow worked its way into nearly every conversation we had. (The stories could go on... but I need to get to work.... You get the idea...)

[punkdhiver]

Other than that, I bet he didn't Tok much.

[allamericanjock]

Tok was a nickname... I think his last name was Takanori

[punkdhiver]

Nihonjin desu ka?