My First Year in a College Dorm

So, here's my biggest complaint blog so far, but it's one many college freshmen can relate to. My poor friends have been hearing me talk about this for the last year, now all of you get to hear about it.

My roommates.

Now this is nothing against them personally, and it's nothing saying anything bad about them. It's actually kind of funny, and I have come to see it as a joke.

So we'll call these roommates Roomate A and Roomate B.

Now my roommates were nice, funny, and fun to be around, but the one thing that i didn't like about living with them was... well you can see for yourself:

Let's start with the closet:

This was a regular look for our closet;; On my side (right) everything was put away or at least set aside 99% of the time. As for my roommates' side, as you can see, their things are usually laying around everywhere. Especially Roomate B, whose pile of dirty laundry lived at the end of the closet. Sometimes she'd put it in a bag, but usually it was piled so that I couldn't even open my dresser drawers.

Moving on to the bathroom! This was probably the messiest room in our dorm, but with three girls, that's not much of a surprise right? Well, this was messier than the average girls' bathroom. Both Roommates A and B liked to leave their clothes in the bathroom after they showered, which is perfectly fine with me. That's a regular habit that many people do, but leaving in there for 3 or 4 days at time and letting them pile up? That's just being lazy. Of course, looking at their side of the closet, and Roommate A's shoe collection downstairs, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Just a note: No one wants to see your underwear and bra laying there for a week!
Another thing that Roomate B liked to do is leave the cups she uses for water every night on the bathroom sink. These three cups in particular were here for 5 days before she finally decided to move them.

The last, and by far most disgusting, thing Roomate B did in the bathroom was leave her hair all over the shower wall. It might be hard to see in the picture, but every time I went in there after her, it looked like cousin IT died in our shower! It's not that hard to wipe your hair off the shower wall when you're done, And on another note, I'm pretty sure she had sex in that shower with her boyfriend... while I was sitting right downstairs, ughh!! Really?! Of course, this is also the girl who went out and spent $2oo on a Coach wallet, and went out to eat all the time, then couldn't even afford $4o for our electric bill...

Going down the stairs... which were completely covered in cat hair. Clumps of hair could be found ALL over the stairs, there were times when the carpeting was white. Both my roommates had cats, and one of them especially liked to shed (that one can be seen in the picture). And guess who the one person was who always had to clean the hair off these stairs? Me! The only one who didn't have a cat. My roommates actually moved out a few weeks ago, and I'm still trying to clean all the hair off cause they never bothered to clean up after their own cats. (Which just made me remember, Roomate B's cat's litter box, always smelled absolutely DISGUSTING, but she would never clean it even though I and people who came to visit always told her how nasty it smelled.)

Down to the kitchen: Here we see a gigantic pile of dishes in the sink. This was nothing out of the ordinary. And guess what? Not one of the dishes in this sink is mine, what you see of mine is that mug and spoon sitting nice and clean in the dish drainer. This picture was taken on a Thursday morning. All those dishes were sitting in there since Sunday night... EW! How could you possibly live like that?! And the worst part is, when Roomate B washed them, they were still dirty! I was thrilled when she washed them, so I decided to put them away to make room for her to clean the rest. As I was putting them away i found there was still syrup on the plates and goop on all the silverware, so I put them back in the sink to be rewashed again. i found out through one of her coworkers that she also did this at work, and her boss always got mad about having to rewash the dishes all the time. I hope her boyfriend knows how to do dishes... There were also times when they'd go home for the weekend and leave a pile like this of THEIR dishes in the sink for me to wash, and unlike them, I hate having dirty dishes sit around, so I had to clean them.

Also in our kitchen, you see these two tuna cans. My roommates thought it'd be cute to give them to Roomate A's kitty so she can lick the tuna out of them, and she did. The part that wasn't very cute? These cans sat here for almost a week before I finally ended up picking them up, because obviously neither of my roommates were going to do it. They don't pick up clothes, cups, or shoes, so why would they pick up two cans?

Sure, I had my moments where I was messy, maybe if I had a lot of work to do, and didn't have time to clean, but i kept my mess confined to my own little corner by my desk and bed, not every room in the dorm, every day of the year! as I said, my roommates were nice and fun, and I actually find this more funny than mean, and I'm not insulting them at all, I mean I could have gotten stuck with someone much, much worse, but just a message to all of you who are going to college next year and getting new roommates:

I hope you get cleaner people than me.