It sucks.
Don't be a dumbass like me and use any mental problems you have to get out of the dorms.

Never had to live in a dorm, I live close to a train station that goes straight to my university. All I can say is that maybe you should try to get over your chronic masturbation.

freshman year, i got roomed in a 2 bedroom suite with 5 other guys. 3 to a room.

there was so much garbage and no one wanted to take it out so we febreezed it.

>>7244059
You can get unlucky and get a fat wowfag like me who's always on his computer desk and is only out of the room when his classes are in session, and sometimes he skips them to raid with his guild or something. So I NEVER get the room to myself.

He's always talking on vent with his guild and I can never study.

well, you figure out each other's schedules and you fap when your roomie isn't there. simple enough. you'll have hours alone in the room.

every so often, your roommate will pick up a ho, and they'll have monkey sex right next to you/across from you. those are good shows and you're never pissed that you missed 20 minutes of sleep time.

>>7244091

Why would I need a reason, can I just choose NOT to live in one, or do most people have to?

>>7244097

Living at home would be even worse, I wanna get out, and it's not just the masturbation I need my space.

>>7244181
Fuck, I got a wow fag myself two years ago. Same situation as you.

Why to people go to uni to spend 3/4 of their time playing wow?

You WILL hate the guy you'll live with. Whoever he is, whatever he does - you'll hate it. Even if he's a perfect roommate you'll still despise him.

Get out of dorms as soon as you can, seriously.

>>7244181
I had a guy like this my first semester in the dorms. I just invited people over every chance I got, he'd leave then. I felt bad for him though. We lived on a floor full of awesome people, saturday nights everyone would just leave their doors open and wander from room to room, having some beers, playing music or vidya, getting high, whatever. And there he'd be, sitting on his computer watching anime with his headphones on.

Don't be that guy robots.

i got my own en suite room, really cheap too, the only thing i share is the kitchen and i don't even have to clean it. sucks that i'll have to get a place in the private sector next year, this is only for first years.

>>7244238
Samefag

Forgot to mention dorms for the most part suck ass. Especially the communal bathrooms, so fucking fail. If you want to stay in res, which isn't a bad idea, try to get an actual apartment with a bathroom asap.

It depends on what your roommate's like. If they're cool it's like having a slumberparty with your best friend every day, but if they're lame it's a pain in the ass. Especially if they're inconsiderate when it comes to sleeping - coming and going at all hours, watching TV when you're trying to sleep, ect. Even if they're just some normal jackoff it sucks, cause then you have all the disadvantages of having a roommate (limited fapping, ect) with none of the benefits (easy friend).

My advice to freshmen is always to get a single for their first semester or year, make some friends, then room with one of them if you want a roommate. Otherwise you're probably gonna get stuck with a lameass.

College is the perfect time for you to get over your antisocial tendencies. You need to be able to get along with a wide variety of people if you want any hope of surviving in the real world and the job market. If your ability to fap is one of your FIRST concerns about living with someone else, you fap too much. Your roommate will not likely be in the room 24/7. Fap when he's gone.
I never had a problem with dorm living. I lived in a suite: 4 rooms, 2 people per a room (so 8 total people.) There were four sinks, 2 toilets, and 2 showers.
I never had any problems with the people I lived with, but I might have just been lucky. Everyone cleaned up after themselves and we kept the bathrooms/sink/etc. pretty clean by working out a cleaning schedule. My roommate and I aren't best friends, but we got along really well and we're still friends two years later.
Then again, I'm a girl and i was living with all girls. Boys tend to be a little less concerned with cleanliness.

>>7244280
It's the perfect time to hone them.

Fuck, I wish I had a choice of room like you guys seem to.

At my school, all freshmen are tripled. As a sophomore, you are tripled or doubled. Only when you're a junior or senior can you get a single.

This is why I commute :-/

It's not bad at all, actually. Most people respect the rules of privacy - IE, you need the room to yourself for whatever reason, they get out of there. Within reason, at least.

>>7244238

I simply do not understand why people don't take advantage of situations like yours. I lived on a floor of about 15 people, all coming and going. We had a couple people who were ultra quiet and very very shy. We were nice though, and always tried to include them and they made the effort to at least not sit alone all the time. A little alcohol works wonders. Eventually they came out of their shells. Not trying to change them, they still same people. Just obviously happier that they'd made some effort.

>>7244263
Many universities force freshmen to live with at least one roommate. Single occupancy dorms are only available to non-freshman students.

My roommate was a nice guy from Missouri. I would smoke him up with my Volcano occasionally and he would play abysmal music whenever I got him high. I didn't really like hanging out with him to much, though, as I found him to be a pretty boring person.

About two or three months into our first semester, he started dating a nice girl and they got serious quickly. They soon began sleeping together in our room nearly every night. Despite the fact that this is obviously annoying, I didn't mind too much. If anything, it forced me to go hang out with my friends and I soon began only using my room for sleeping, showering, and homework purposes. All the drinking, smoking, partying, and gaming I did, I did with friends on other floors or off campus.

As for fapping, I did all my fapping in the bathroom (not the shower, mind you).

>>7244280
>Boys tend to be a little less concerned with cleanliness.
from my experience guys usually just don't clean until they absolutely have to and then it's just simple "i did it last time so now it's your turn".
With girls it's bitching and fighting all the time.

>>7244280

see how organized and clean girls are? no boys' dorm would ever have a cleaning schedule, instead, they wait til the place looks like a garbage dump then fabreeze it.

I spent my first 2 years in the dorms sleeping in a small room with 2 other guys. It really wasn't bad at all.

My first year we mostly just did our own stuff at our desks, homework, stuff on our laptops, etc. Occasionally we watched TV together.

Second year my roommates and I got along much better. We played a bunch of SSBM, F-Zero GX, and raced through LoZ:TP together. Played some LAN Emulated SNES games too. It was pretty awesome. I never had any space issues.

Last two years I had my own room in half of a duplex with two other people. We didn't get as long as well (not that we butted heads much, we just mostly kept to ourselves). My own room in a duplex with 2 other people was actually cheaper than sharing one room with two other people in a dorm too.

>>7244289

living with 2 people can't be as bad as just 1. 3's a crowd - less awkward.

>>7244321
Like I said, I never had a problem with my roommates. The easiest way to avoid fighting over cleaning is to make a chart with people's names on it and actually keep track of who cleans when.
That reminds me; I had a guy friend who lived down the hall from me. His roommates NEVER took out the trash, they just kept stacking it onto the tiny little trashcan until they had a trash tower that was about 6 ft. tall. It was kind of funny, until the day it got bumped during a party and went everywhere. Then it was hilarious, because at that point they couldn't put it off anymore and had to bag up all the trash while they were completely wasted.

>>7244219

I would have killed for a WoW fag. I would assume that they're better to be around than a fucking Business Freshman who's gona party all the time bring scores of random people in our room who steal things and comes in at 2 am drunk. And always comes up with reasons why he's better than you because he's been to more parties than you.

I would think a WoW fag would be somewhat respectful.

>>7244356
With only 2 people you have greater potential to make friends with them and not be the 3rd wheel in the room, though. It really depends on the social dynamic of the room and the people in it.

>>7244376
Loud. Obnoxious. Awful hygiene. Steals food.

Same shit different name.

This best shared housing i've has (and I've had a few) always has people who figure out the best way of keeping it clean etc, as they go along. Making little gestures goes a long way too. Like doing everyone's dishes one night if you can't sleep etc. Shit creates a good atmosphere and everyone responds.

The worst is when some cunt immediately draws up rules and a schedule for everything. They always write their name on all food and crockery too. Living rules are for seriously anal cunts.

I had a roommate in a dorm in college. He was a weak nerd type, and while I wasn't a jock or anything, I was bigger than him.

One night I raped him.

He didn't tell anyone, never spoke of it, never looked me in the eye again.

A month later he killed himself, and everyone was really supportive to me about my emotions and how hard the situation must have been for me, and I got so have the whole room to myself for the rest of the year.

>>7244376
I'd rather have the party boy, because you could easily report him for underage drinking and get his ass thrown out of school and have the room all to yourself. The WoW fag usually doesn't do anything bad enough for you to get rid of him. Unless his body odor becomes to offensive it actually becomes a health hazard (and this does happen sometimes. A guy got thrown out of the dorms for poor hygiene. There was mold in his pillow from food and a colony of some sort of bugs in his mini fridge. Shit was legendarily disgusting.)

>>7244416
I agree with the worst, but the best I've had is where everyone was on top of their shit well enough that gestures weren't even necessary. Dishes were never left dirty in the sink, we just fell into a comfortable trash routine, etc. Shit was awesome. Then one of them had to move out and we ended up getting this anal retentive German exchange student who cunted everything up.

>>7244435
My WoWfag left a box of pizza in his minifridge for about 2 months. At the end of the semester when we had to clean them out he just decided to unplug it the night before. Opened the door in the morning and almost killed us both. We had to drag the fucking thing outside and wash it out with ammonia, and it still smelled so bad that we emptied half a bottle of Febreeze into it before the inspection.

During my freshman year of college, there were two guys who lived directly across the hall from me. The two of them obviously knew each other from high school. They never left their rooms (except for class and over breaks) and would game constantly. I tried to engage them in conversation about anime or video games, but nothing came out of it (with the exception of my borrowing LoZ: TP from them).

I always wondered what went on in that room. Simultaneous masturbation? Hentai fap sessions? WoW raids?

I recently lived with 2, 20yr old girls who liked a drink and didn't afraid of drugs. The best part is I'm 30! This was at uk uni. I'm what's officially called a Mature Student but the term is wasted on me. Was a truly fantastic year. Not for anal fags though.

>>7244548
Probably all of the above. Maybe a little good old-fashioned homosexual intercourse.

>>7244561

did you look young for a 30 year old? i'm a mature student, and i don't think i'll fit in with the freshers even though i'm only 24, because i look a lot older...

My roommate spilled a gallon jug of soy sauce in his closet at the start of the semester, room smelled like it for the rest of the year.
General roommate experience:
1st year of college: roomed with best friend from high school, he was a extroverted weeaboo manchild who ended up stalking some female friends that we had pretty badly. I was a pretty big loser too, rarely leaving the dorm other than class and going home most weekends.
2nd year: roomed with friend that I made the first year. He was pretty similar to me, nerdy, sat in front of his computer most of the time. Luckily he had a gf and she had a single room due to a water leak (which my other friends had caused by doing pullups on the sprinkler pipes... her room was completely unlivable so they moved her to a single) so he rarely spent the night during the week, and again I went home most weekends.
I dropped out of college at that point and joined the Air Force, but roommate scenarios are still pretty much the same.
I only physically shared a sleeping room while in basic (doesn't count) and tech school...
Tech school roommates generally weren't too bad, the only honorable mentions would be 1.) First roommate got caught with a stack of porn mags under his bed in an inspection, lulz were had. and 2.) Second roommate was a 'student leader' type fag... got me roped into sponsoring a special olympics kids when they came. Our kid ended up pissing the bed hard core, edge to edge yellow. My other friends who weren't sponsoring were out getting drunk and laid :|
tl;dr roommates suck, if you get one you should probably kill him immediately.

What did you guys think about your RAs? I lived directly across from the RA room both of my two years in the dorms and they were both actually among my favorite people in the dorms. A lot of the people seemed to dislike them though; especially the guys. I always figured it was just because they figured the RAs were out to bust them for the alcohol they had stashed in their rooms.

I'm a freshman in a single. I'm sort of glad about it, too. Roommates can be like ready-made friends if they're cool, but chances are that they won't be cool. Meanwhile, I've still got 5 suitemates, which are also pretty much ready-made friends. Thing is, if they weren't it wouldn't be a big deal because I wouldn't have to deal with them screwing up my sleep, messing with my stuff, fucking girlfriends/skanks all the time, ect.

I actually haven't seen many issues regarding shared areas in my suite, either. Everyone takes care of their own trash, cleans their own dishes, eats their own food or asks before taking, ect.

There've been a couple of disagreements, but we instituted a rule in the first week that any disagreements would be resolved by a rollerchair jousting match in the hallway to determine who was right - the results of which would be indisputable.

I'm proud to say that my broom and officemax chair combo is yet undefeated.

gottablockthisforsomereason
I'm a senior in highschool right now and I've applied to share a room with my best friend of a bunch of years. We've never fought, so I don't think the whole "you're going to hate eachother in 2 weeks" thing will go down. It'll be a suite, two double rooms share a bathroom. Kind of excited, very nervous. I'm really shy.

>>7244637
Tangential to this, I made friends with this girl who I literally shared all but one of my classes within my major with my last two years, and I didn't find out until knowing her for almost a year that she was actually 28 (or maybe it was 29). Me and the other person we always sat with both dropped our jaws when she casually mentioned her age at one point.

>>7244650
Our RA was a relatively chill black chick the first year, she had a rabbit (no pets allowed) in her room, so she couldn't really say anything about anything we did. 'Someone' put a large hole in our dayroom wall.
The 2nd year I never even saw our RA.

Most rooms in my dorm are singles, and all the other people in doubles use one room for sleeping and one for working. I live in a double with one other guy - he has the inner room and I have the outer room. He stays in his room a lot but has friends and goes places. It only bothers me when I'm getting dressed and I'm worried he'll walk in on me (he has to walk through my room to get out). Otherwise, it's pretty cool - my half of the suite is larger than most other singles in the dorm.

>>7244650

No one at my college cares about alcohol, you can leave a bottle of Stoli or whatever on your desk with the door wide open and the RH's will ignore it. A few people don't like my RA, but she's my best friend. The only time she ever cracks down on parties and stuff is when people are being way too loud during quiet hours (12:00 on weekdays, 2:00 on weekends), and the people who complain about her are the ones being obnoxious jackasses at 3 in the morning.

>>7244650
I liked the RAs. As long as you weren't making a shit ton of noise, they really didn't care what you did. The rule of thumb with most RAs seems to be "If I didn't see it or hear it, it didn't happen." As long as you hide the booze and drugs, you're good.
Unless you get a powertrip RA who thoroughly enjoys ruining everyone's fun. If you get one one those I'm truly sorry.

>>7244650

My hall RA was a cunt. The adjacent hall RA was a bro, though. I would smoke bowls by myself outside the dorms late and night and would always see him skulking about, coming back from parties and such. He would always wait for me to finish smoking and would join me for a cigarette afterward.

My friends lived on the third floor of our dorms and I would always hang out in their room (fell asleep stoned or drunk in their chairs on a semi-weekly basis). Their RA was one of the coolest people we knew. We'd see her at parties, chat with her about anything, get her to help us with homework, and she had absolutely no problems about the drinking and smoking that went on in their room. In fact, she would even tell us when we ought to tone it down (as opposed to reporting us, like she was supposed to).

That said, all the other RAs I knew were gigantic faggots. They ranged from christ-fags to art-fags and they were all equally insufferable.

>>7244637

yeah I do look young. Still get ID'd all the time.

I was grad student and they both worked in nightclubs so our schedules were ok. I was in lab all day and when I came home they'd usually be going to work. I could study in peace then. If they weren't working I'd party with them. Worked well, but we were all mega laid back.

>>7244763

My advice is to stop being shy. For your first week or two try not to hang out with your friend much, and try not to spend much time in your room. If you HAVE to be in there, leave the door open and try to be doing something that other people can join in on.

Introduce yourself to EVERYONE. Everyone in your classes, everyone in lunch, everyone in your classes (again), everyone in dinner, everyone in your dorm at night. Even if it's just 'Hey I'm Anon, nice to meet you.' it really helps. Try to find a party to go to as soon as you can. It doesn't really matter if you've never been to one before - just go and get drunk. You'll suddenly get much more talkative, you'll meet tons of people, and make some friends. Seriously, alcohol is fucking awesome for helping shy kids make friends.

I'm in the UK, and the thought of actually sharing my room does not compute. I was speaking to me American friend about it, she says you Yankfags just live with it, and it's not that uncommon.

How the fuck does anyone share a room with someone they're not fucking?

>>7244884
It's really not bad at all. As long as you get along with each other, or at least keep to yourself and remain courteous thing go smoothly. Really, the primary issue is just a matter of everyone having similar cleanliness standards. As long as you or your roommate is social enough to not be in the room 24/7 it's not hard to avoid privacy issues either.

>>7244866
Lol, stop being shy. It's not that easy. I'm like, 10 times more outgoing when I'm with someone I know, so I figure rooming with her is going to help. If I'm not supposed to be in my room all the time, where should I be? How do I find a party to goto? I've been to parties, but never been drunk. Don't enjoy the taste of alcohol, but I figure that'll change while in college.

Our dorms have shared sex floors and dorms. The suites are single sex, but still, shit rox man. It's not suspicious to see them going into the building, nor getting off on the floor, nor even going into the room if you're not really familiar with the layout. It's so much easier to sneak chicks in.

>>7244884

I'm the guy who shared with the 2 20yr old girls. I also shared a duplex room at another time with a Nigerian guy. We mostly got on and he introduced me to plantains which I still eat. Fucking lovely fried. He was the super shiny cool type and i'm more the laid back cool type. Only thing was his awful r n b music but it was always quiet and never played for long. Neither of us was in room much anyway.

Do campusfags look down on us who still live at home?

I live 15 minutes away by interstate from my school so living in a dorm seemed unnecessary and a waste of money. Have a job as a reading tutor 2 days a week for elementary kids and I'm looking for another one for off days so I can afford to get a place with a couple bros.

People seem a little off-put when I say I still live at home though, what gives?

>>7244884

You did it for ~18 years living with your family, and I'm assuming that you weren't fucking them. It's largely the same.

>>7244992
I didn't share my actual room with them. I can share living space, but not sleeping space.

>>7244951
>How do I find a party to goto?

It's really easy. Whenever you see someone on your floor you just ask "Hey anything going on this weekend?". If yes then "Mind if I join you guys?", most likely they'll invite you anyway. Aside from that just keep your door open on the weekends if it's not an issue with either of you, someone's bound to pop in and ask if you want to come with to wherever they're headed.

>>7245005
In America people never get their own rooms and it is common to be three in bed.

my roommate asked if we could room together
she turned out to be batshit insane and blamed her failing grades on me
she also had her boyfriend over EVERY NIGHT and fucked him while i was sleeping. she was hopelessly codependent.
anyway, she threw a bitch fit because my shoes were on the floor and my desk was cluttered, and my sleep schedule was ruining her life.

now i have a giant room to myself.

fuck yeah. i masturbate 2-3 times a day now.

>>7245020
This just baffles me. People are really that friendly? All you have to do is introduce yourself, leave your door open, and you'll get invited places? Sounds too good to be true.

>>7245130

when no one knows anyone they will assume you're at least not a wowfag if you're asking about parties, i'm not saying you'll be able to completely change your image and become COOL DUDE but you can improve it for sho.

>>7245130
people are like that, just not to me.

my hall hates me, though.

i never leave my room (well, i do, but i hang out with upperclassmen downstairs) and i'm weird. of course i wouldn't want to go to a party.

if you can't room with a friend or a suite type dorm where you have a private room, GET A SINGLE (if available at your college).

i have never had a good experience with a roommate. there's always something. plus it's just kind of a hassle overall, even with friends.

>>7245130
Not everyone, but in general yes. Remember they're all in the same boat as you, they just got there and they don't know many people. They're happy to make some new friends. Just get in on it early, don't sit there for 6 months and THEN decide that you want to start having a social life.

>>7245130
in my experience, it's only true during the very beginning of college -- especially during orientation week/time of moving in. after that, people quickly group off and it gets much more difficult for an introvert.

first few weeks of college are key for making friends.

Roommates are awesome. Especially when you teabag them and post pics on 4chan! Fag.

>>7244951

>I'm like, 10 times more outgoing when I'm with someone I know

Believe me, I was too. It's just something that you've gotta learn to work through. Even if you sound nerdy or awkward or you're stammering, people won't really mind. The mindset's way different than in highschool. For the most part, people will go out of their way to try to be nice and include you. If you hide out in your room or only talk to your friend, it'll make that a lot harder for them to do. Sounding stupid or nerdy or awkward is still way better than not saying anything at all.

>If I'm not supposed to be in my room all the time, where should I be?

Wherever there are people. The dining hall/cafeteria is great for mealtimes, since it's always packed full of people. Common rooms in the dorms, where people hang out, are usually good too.

>How do I find a party to goto?

You'll probably see one at some point. Lots of people drink in the dorms, so just look around when it starts getting later (8-10 on). Other signs of a party are groups of people all going towards the same place and suites that get full of people then close their door. Nobody'll care if you just show up and don't know anyone, but if you're not sure you could bring your friend too. You might also hear about/get a text about one from a new acquaintance or see a post about one from a new facebook friend, or you could ask pretty much anyone in a frat about where you can find a party and they'll either point you in the right direction or call you up next time they're throwing one.

>I've been to parties, but never been drunk. Don't enjoy the taste of alcohol, but I figure that'll change while in college.

Nobody really enjoys it at first. It starts going down like water once you reach a certain level of drunkenness, so you can try drinking some girly drinks to start if it's too bad.

I had room mate who was an arch communist and always made some moral comment if I was drinking Coke or had some Nestle product lying around. I went to college in the 50s. Cunt got what was coming to him.

>>7245337
>I went to college in the 50s.
that makes you how old?

I plan to live with my best friends once we head off to uni this fall, looking forward to it. We're both quite tidy ppl so it shouldnt be much of a problem keeping the place clean.

>>7245051
FUCKEN WANT.

I'd love to have a roommate, even if we do fight a lot.

>>7245715

Care to elaborate on why?

>>7245715

commit a crime. share a cell. lulz will come.

>>7245337

hahahaohwow.jpg

If I am that old and still on 4chan, strangle me with my own limp dick

>>7245797
It's university; the only freedom you'll ever get.

May as well share that freedom with someone else, be it a rival or a friend.

>>7245676
>>7245862

I'm over 9000. I can polish my shoes with my nose hair and have an aunt who recollects the first battle of Agincourt.

>>7244435
If he's 19, he's not underage

Freshman year of college is where I met my best friend, I went to a dorm that was shared gender. I got roomed up with a crazy fucking lezzie gal with a shaved head and had a thousand piercings, she heard me listening to rancid and the rest was history.

good times.

>>7244965
sneak girls in? what in the hell? what kind of school are you at that doesn't allow you to bring whoever you want into your room?

>>7246235

There was an Iranian guy in our dorm and the sexes lived separately, at opposite ends of campus. Sever penalties for midnight encouners or morning walks of shame. Guy was cool though.

>>7246039

Drinking age in the US is 21, bro.

>>7246235

Most colleges don't allow guys in girl dorms/floors or girls in guy dorms/floors after a certain time. It's not always strictly enforced (especially if your RA's cool) but it can still be annoying.

>>7244280
Hmm, we had a mixed-gender apartment with 18 rooms for 18 people (only 2 toilets and showers though, still, at least own rooms). Our landlord enforced a cleaning policy by billing us WAY more rent than the rooms costed, then returning what he billed extra if we kept the lot clean (he made random checks). If not, he'd hire a professional cleaning company for what he billed too much.

>>7246371
It's still 21?
Thought you guys changed it to 19