Oh she was awful, constantly with a new guy, one time she didn't tell me or even lock the door and I walked in on them...everything was always a competition and she always had it worse, she had meds and never took them. Living with her was hell and she was just so toxic. There was more, but for anonymity I'll leave it at that.

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Had a dormmate who didn't shower, not great, but we didn't share rooms.

One day she sat down next to me, didn't ask, and without a word, unfurled a plastic bag of loose pills. Took a handful and then acted like I insulted her.

The first week of the semester, she told us it her birthday, so we went and got a cake for her, and put up streamers. She walked in, took them all down, and yelled at us for thinking she wanted to celebrate it.

Knocked on my door in the middle of the night and told me her mother [ended] herself. When she was a child. But wanted me to know.

She threatened my roommate with her knife collection, because she was watching tv in her room, and "any" noise made her want to kill my roommate, and herself.

The knives were the final straw, she got moved to another room, where she threw a frying pan at her new roommate.

I Google her name, just to see if she's in jail (not yet).

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My roommate didn't shower or do laundry for the entire semester I lived with him. He and everything he owned (and subsequently everything I owned) smelled like raw beef. .

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Had a roommate with whom I shared a room in grad school. That guy used to trade stocks in India during US night time and insisted on keeping all the lights in the room on. I ended up sleeping in the living room so many nights.

Eventually found out that the person who sublet his place had left for the adjacent apartment after getting frustrated by that jerk. No one else in the apartment spoke to him either. I was so glad to leave that place.

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I shared a dorm apartment with three other people (me, Sarah, Carol, and Daniel - fake names), we all had our own rooms with a bed and a desk and two bathrooms shared, plus a kitchenette and living space. It was great. It was me, two other girls, and a guy. The guy was... A lil odd.

You see, me and Sarah shared a bathroom and Carol and Daniel shared the other. We each provided our personal toiletries and then took turns purchasing toilet paper. Daniel never provided any for his bathroom. Carol asked that he do so because that was the agreement. He waffled and didn't. She ended up taking a roll back and forth between the bathroom and her room because she didn't want to pay for him anymore. So he started to go into her room (only when no one else was there) and snag it to use. So she started to make sure her room was always locked. So he just, um, showered after every bathroom use. Whether we were home or not. He'd go in and after a few minutes, you'd just hear the shower running for a while, then he'd come out with wet hair and clean.

There were definitely weird vibes from in general and I ended up moving home over winter break for many reasons, including my roommates being less than great.

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Off the top of my head, various roomies:

1) pi polar alcohol who started partying at 2am in our 4 br apartment. He managed to get the cops called on us 6 times for noise. 1 of which was for his girlfriend screaming and I answered the door.

2) his girlfriend would bring home pets. Dogs. Rabbits. Which I gave away because they didn’t care for them (oh, and we weren’t allowed to have pets!).

3) poop boy. Back in the days of s****y internet when you had to reset the cable modem daily, it was in his room. We took turns running into his room and holding our breath to reset it so we didn’t have to breathe in his sweet aroma.

4) cops called because his girlfriend broke the sliding patio door since he wouldn’t let her in. When people learned where I lived in the complex, they were full of horror knowing I was with the “lawn screamers”.

The best roommate I ever had… we said like a total of 6 words to each other all semester.

I always had dreams of moving to NYC…. But I’ll never have room mates again.

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Stayed with a guy that was my roommate in the dorms the year prior and was an overall good guy and moved off campus to save money. I found the house to rent, signed the lease, and had him added after the fact. Regretted that one very quickly for multiple reasons:

1. When we took over the house, we had agreed that I'd take the master bedroom and he'd take the guest bedroom. He lived in town and I didn't, so during the summer he lived in the house (we had prepaid the summer rent to avoid any hassle). The week before the semester starts, I come back to find he took over the master bedroom and put the few things I had there in the guest room.

2. A week after the semester starts, he asks if a friend of his could move in with us and said we'd split rent and bills 3 ways. Like an idiot, I agreed since it would be cheaper and we got him on the lease as well. I can count on one hand the number of times his friend paid his part of the rent, not to mention he was a band student that practiced during the night and got grumpy if you made noise during the daytime (he took online courses).

3. Neither of the two would clean their dishes at any point, leaving a kitchen sink full all the time. Not only did they refuse to clean the dishes themselves, but my first roommate got annoyed with me leaving my pizza pan on the stove when I finished using it (read: waited for it to cool off before taking it back to my room). I had to keep my dishes in my room and also hoard my food in my mini fridge and a tote since they kept the kitchen fridge/freezer full of their stuff and left me no room.

4. My roommate would invite a number of his friends over all the time (many of whom I had no problems with since we hung out too), but would get annoyed with me if I had any friends come over. We never were allowed to mingle in the living room while they were there.

5. Last but not least, when the end of the year rolled around and I said I was going to look for a place to be by myself for the next year, he just told me "No, you're not." His reasoning was that we "were good friends, and our setup is perfect." That infuriated me considering I complained about the problems constantly and was always told they'd do better. Spoiler: they never did.


I wound up talking with my landlord and got a 1-bedroom apartment for the following year. I prepaid for the summer as well as covering one month of the summer for the house (essentially my 1/3 of the rent for the summer), got my deposit changed to the apartment, gave my roommates a month's notice (which they ignored and assumed I was joking), and moved my stuff out the week of finals.

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It's a little tough to describe because no one thing this guy did was ever really noteworthy, but the accumulation of s***tiness really made him a roommate from hell.

Dude straight-up yelled at me (not super loud or angry, but definitely yelling) for ordering food without seeing if he wanted to join the order. I asked him everytime I ordered after that, and then he got upset that I always asked. He also never joined an order before or after. He also never asked me to join one of his orders or invited me to anything for that matter. I guess he expected me to be psychic and know when he wanted to be included. Super weird.

The guy literally never took out the trash. I once said "I'll take it out this time, but can you please take it out next time" and the dude blew up on me.

The next people he lived with also never took out the trash so they just threw trash on their enclosed side porch, which was... disgusting.

He got upset when I watched a movie or played video games in our apartment's living room with like 3 other people in the middle of the day on a weekend.

The crazy thing was, outside of his roommates, he seemed like a pretty decent guy, but anyone who lived with him was never a roommate for more than a year.

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*I* was the roommate from hell. It was innocent and not conflict-y at all but looking back I feel bad for the guy! My roommate lived on the beach in Florida and made the decision to go to college in DC. What a culture shock! This dude, in a hurry, moved at a half-speed. He was a lifeguard with a resting heart rate of like 47. And yet he was a metal fan. Not me. I'm from Philly and high strung. I loved the Dead and classic rock and played guitar. This means I had an acoustic AND an electric plus two amps and pedals in our tiny dorm room. I was not great at the time. This guy slept maybe 16 hours a day. 10 at night and a couple of naps. I always had people coming by. I'd play the Dead or my guitar and this dude would come from class to go to bed and there would be 2 extra people in there or I'd be playing guitar or whatever. He lasted the whole year but he didn't come back. I've never seen or heard anything about him since. I hope he turned out alright...

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In my third year, I was paired with a paranoid schizophrenic. He was one of those "fine line between genius and madness" types.
We certainly had some really interesting conversations, but eventually he started stealing things from me (like my mp3 player) and leaving them in the common room of the dormitory that the girl he was stalking was staying at.
The university tried making me and the other two guys we shared the apartment with change to a new dorm because they "didn't want to be seen as discriminating against someone with a mental disorder." But once I pointed out that all they had to do was discriminate against him for stealing my s**t, they eventually relocated him instead of forcing the rest of us to move.

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She was religious and didn’t think animals had souls, or any kind of feelings, and would try to pick arguments about it with me. I volunteered at a school for mentally challenged teens and she said unbelievable things about them, like when we were paired up with students for activities she asked how it was decided who would pair with who and I said it just depended on everyone’s personalities. And she goes, “They have personalities?” Lol oh and she claimed I smelled (I bathed I swear) and she insisted on these Glade stick ups I was allergic to but refused to get rid of them. And she ran the heater every day, I would be literally panting in front of a fan.

One time I had a bad reaction to hair dye and had to go to the ER. She’d never been to the ER before and asked to go because she was curious. The hospital was trying to figure out how to treat me, I’m on a bed in this South Central LA hospital surrounded by like gunshot victims and the lady next to me having a miscarriage and here comes Susan, “When will you be done? I have homework.”

F*****g Susan. I got a bill that summer from the uni because she took my bed’s mattress cover after I left.

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Not currently a college student, but when I was, my college roommate purposefully blew snot on me during an argument. Like, covered one nostril with her finger and blew out as hard as she could.

When I said that I would be contacting our advisor, she said, "Well, I thought we could handle this like adults, but obviously, you feel like you need help.".

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My first move off campus, we needed someone a little older so the other three of us could get a place that was on the border of walking distance to campus. Enter Adam. Adam was a “teacher in training” and seemed like an ok guy im the months I knew him up til then. Within a month of living with him I wished we had just gotten another place further away (or solo).

Adams main issue was a crippling WoW addiction, coupled with his job being 3rd shift. So he slept most of the day, and when he wasnt at work he was up playing WoW for 5 hours daily at least. On days with no work, it was 11 hours usually. His admission, not me timing him. He bragged about this.

Because he was glued to WoW he never cooked or cleaned. So his entire diet was cheap pizza and chicken tenders. He never cleaned and hardly ever did his laundry despite us having a washer/drier in our unit. He never talked to us so rent was always late, and anytime anyone did anything he was never interested or told. Because he slept all day, we couldnt be loud in our own place. Nobody could come over, couldnt use the tv too loudly or play music.

Anytime I tried to talk to him his response was always “that sounds like a personal problem”. Initially I agreed, but thats not why Im talking to you about myself. It was to get him to open up and connect with us back. I realized later it was him saying he wanted to be alone. So we left him alone as he wished.

Eventually he became angry about being left out from things (his choices), so he became a pain to be around. Then complaints about others behaviors started rolling in. He didnt like what we cooked, he didnt like us laughing loudly, he criticized our majors and hobbies, he thought the tv we liked was boring.

Over time I never brought my gf over. And the handful of times she was brought, he wasnt there. One of my roomies (two other guys) also refused to bring his gf over too. It was just he gave off vibes of intense jealously and making side comments on their bodies and choices too. They didnt like how he looked at them and they didnt feel comfortable being around him alone.

There was a lot of other minor things that happened, and a couple of major events, one of which got the cops called by neighbors because he was screaming so loudly at me that our neighbors thought he would kill me.

Anyways the year was up and I moved out with those other roomies to somewhere a lot better.

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When I went home for the weekend, she would borrow my clothes and let her friend sleep in my bed. I know it doesn’t sound horrible, but her friend had crabs. So I’d have to change my sheets as soon as I got back, every time.

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I had a foreign roommate from south america (cant remember which country, I've honestly tried to block out all memories of my time with him). he moved into my dorm room in the spring semester of my freshman year, and he was so loud for no reason. he would be up until 2 or 3 in the morning on facetime with friends from back home, i dont mind being up kinda late, but that is ridiculous. he would make bowls of ramen and he would eat so loud that i could hear it in the dorm hallway. i ended up having an anxiety attack because of the constant slurping. he would get bowls of ice cream and leave them sit on his desk for a day and then eat them. he wouldn't clean up after himself and my room got several demerits because of his messes. i talked to him, nothing changed, i talked to our ra, still nothing, i went to the deans and still absolutely nothing changed! i ended up just sleeping in my room. all other waking time was in class, the library,  or out studying or hanging out with friends. it wasnt all bad tho because i made some really good friends because i was forced out of my dorm lol. i actually got to know my now wife better because of me spending less time in my dorm.

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She convinced our entire residence that i was bullying her and went behind my back and reported me to our Warden. I started being treated badly by strangers and rumours were going around about me. Anyway i was called for a meeting with the warden but when yhey heard my side they were enraged on my behalf and asked why I put up with all the things my roomate would do. (Switch off my alarm, leave dirty dishes on my side, uncleanly in general,take things from my food draws without my consent etc).

In all fairness it was my first few months of college and I didnt really know how to stand up for myself properly/ self respect. Roomate and the warden and i eventually had a meeting together and Warden helped the roomate reflect on their actions. A statement i never forgot when they apologized was that they didnt realize they had become the bully that they hated growing up too.

In anycase it took a few months but i eventually forgave them (they apologized multiple times) and all things are good now [i only lived with them that year]. In retrospect, I am kind of grateful that i was able to learn what it meant to have self respect and grace for others. It hurt a lot at the time especially when i just told myself to stomach everything now, a good couple of years later , i'm a better communicator and have more empathy.

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I never went to college (I have the big dumb). My brother did though, and his first roommate was a hardcore weaboo. There isn’t anything wrong with loving anime, but when you blare hentai loudly in the middle of the night and have your weaboo wife (he was legit married) living in yalls shared closet to avoid the cost of housing, I’d say that would qualify as a roommate from hell.

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Many nights she would wake me up by watching kiddie shows (like LazyTown) at full volume and weeping loudly in her bed as she crunched on chips because she was homesick. She lived 30 minutes away and could have commuted instead of dorming.

Towards the end of the year, her boyfriend was pledging a frat and on the last night they made him run some sort of obstacle course and covered him in things like flour and hot sauce. She told me he would be coming to sleep over because he was finally finished pledging and I agreed. He showed up as I was falling asleep, sweaty as f**k and covered in smelly food. He said he was going to take a shower and disappeared, so I fell asleep. I woke up about an hour later from the sounds and the godawful stench of them f*****g, and he had not showered. They fell asleep and he never showered that night. I didn’t speak to her for the rest of the year (only a couple of weeks, luckily) or ever again after that.

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Stole and lost a hand woven garment from a relative that was irreplaceable. Stole my phone and a saucepan, too. Offered me a threesome with her and her girlfriend while I had a committed partner. She was secretly dating her gf while openly dating my male boss who just happened to sexually harass me. .

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It wasn’t anything they did while conscious. We got on fine when they were awake, but they had a HORRIBLE snoring problem. We slept in the same tiny room of my college apartment, like literally 2 feet apart maybe, and they would sleep through my headphones if I didn’t have soundproof on. I didn’t have a restful night sleep for the entire academic year we roomed together.

I started to hate seeing them come home. They were totally nice and when they did other annoying stuff, like game until 1 am they’d always stop if I asked them to. But the snoring never got better and I can’t believe I lasted as long as I did. F*****g hell.

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My freshman year roommate was a treat!

- she frequently used my things, one being my laptop because hers broke. I was ok with it for a bit and one time I was like hey I kind of have to do my homework and she asked if I could go to the library. I said no, you’re going to have to do that.

- she lied about be SA’d. We BEGGED her to tell authorities or even our RA because until we knew it was a lie we felt terrible for her and a little scared ourselves.

- she always had different dudes in our room. She made a “love shack” underneath her bed, so you didn’t even know if she was in there or not.

- random dudes use to knock on our door all hours of the night. One night I had a literal group of men knock at 1 am and then ask if they could wait for her to return.. hard pass on that one.

- she’d smoke weed in our room all the time, which whatever, but she’d do it an know my parents were coming that day to visit.

- she stole things constantly. We went to the mall together once and she probably stole $500 worth of perfume from kohls.

She dropped out after the first semester and I got a room to myself the rest of the year. We’re still friends on Facebook and it looks like she’s doing well now, so that’s good.

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He made SO much noise, all the time. He would come back from visiting his girlfriend at 3 in the morning and make an ungodly amount of noise. Just clattering around, dropping things, even turning on the lights.

He would regularly loudly masturbate in his bed that was about 3 feet away from mine.

He had his own teddy bear, but laughed at the fact that I had one as well. (This is a minor one, I know, but Still.)

I also found out a couple months in that he was very transphobic. The weirdest thing was that I matched with him because I had applied for a trans-friendly roommate, so he had to have purposefully signed up for that despite being transphobic. That worried me for a while, but he never actually said anything bad to me directly.

The good thing about him was that he decided he missed his girlfriend (who attended a different school) too much, and dropped out 2/3s of the way through the year, so I got the room to myself for the last semester.

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