5 September 2008, 3:07 pm
I am right now in a triple with two other girls who are very nice people, but they never leave the room! My roommates don't seem to do much noticeable hanging out with friends during the day, but when its like ten o'clock, they always go out to the sorority and frat parties and come back at 12-1. I've taken to hanging out at a friends dorm just to avoid the awkward silence that prevails when me and my two roommates are all in the room together doing our own things. Every time I go back to the room, hoping that maybe once I'll get it to myself, one or the other, or often both, are holed up on their beds, typing madly on their facebooks as they seem to resort to whenever they don't have parties or class. i feel like now that the only times I'm in the room are to sleep, and the occasional drop by to pick up something and then leave. i'm no recluse, but I do enjoy having some private time now and then. In fact, when my boyfriend drove almost two hours to stay for the weekend, on his last day there, I was hoping that I could get the room to ourselves just for like an hour before he had to leave.But there was still always a roommate in there, sitting at her laptop, madly checking facebook. And I was too shy and feeling too polite to ask her to leave. There is also the problem that because i'm not into the sorority/frat drinking hooking up party scene, my roommates have decided they are each others favorite roommates and announce it on facebook. once, when we were all in the dorm room, one of my roomies announced that they were talking to each other, over facebook im, while i was in the room (!!) it's also getting difficult to make a private phone call, b/c although right now i can walk around campus and feel vaguely private while talking to my family and boyfriend, my campus is in the north east, and once the crazy winter starts, the indoors will be the only option. its possible that my dorm may be de-tripled in the future, and although otherwise the living situation is comfortable, i'm wondering if i should ask to be the one who is moved to a different double. anyway i feel like i give my roommates a ton of space and private time, but the lack of any privacy is starting to toll on me. if i'm being unreasonable please tell me, i'm thinking its a big possibility, but I just wanted to get some advice on my situation.... read more
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