Roommates

University of Michigan's Best Bets, Part X: Roommates

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All right, you guys know the routine by now. Post any additional answers you’d like to see in the comments or feel free to share some stories. Send some tips in for new questions because I’m running out of id

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Room Blind

Room with Best/Close Friend

Room with other Friend (second/third circle)

Room with Acquaintance

Room with Friend of Friend

Room Alone (if you can)

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Premature Nesting
My roommates are fighting over the future of our house. For me, it seems that this is a fitting bookend to our slightly broken home. This house was mythic before we even lived here. Pushed out by University housing and determined to make our Senior year living experience the best it could be we took an... MORE »
Latest comment by Anonymous: This piece is funny and sad. It captures that all too infrequent sense of possessiveness for the often rundown places that we temporarily call home and the way that we each react. It's hard to imagine generati... MORE »
Winter Renting Guide: Roomies?
The beginning of Winter quarter is one of the most important times of the year. It is easily looked over because of the time taken to readjust to college life after a long break. The first couple of weeks in January essentially decides how comfortably you will live next year. This is due to the timing of... MORE »
“Help! My roommate is hooking up with a douchebag!”
Douchebag sightings have been a big part of OTR lately, and for good reason—they make moronic comments, publish ridiculous viewpoints, and generally piss people off.

Most of the time, however, douchebags are avoidable, or at least escapable.

But what would you do if one invaded you... MORE »
Latest comment by Anonymous: I'd make his journey to my dorm absolutely horrendous and unbearable so that he'll never come and sleep in my room.
Let's face it, when you're short, it can feel like everyone is looking down on you. That's why you need to find a tall friend to help you:

1. Hang Things in Your Room
2. Grab the Cookies on top of the refrigerator
3. Help your friends find the spot... MORE »
Latest comment by Anonymous: I like third-rate porn--especially with silhouette lighting! Hmmmm...giant tall blond guy and tiny short brown-haired girl...meeting to nail things to the wall...oh, oh my...
Two's a Crowd When Your Roomate Sucks
"Hey man, you want to join us for Yoohoo and D&D?"

Problems with you’re roommate? Do they steal your clothes or toiletries? Are they a recluse who plays video games and pesters you about your social life? Are they just huge dorks? Then here is you’re guiding to getting back at them.

Your roomma
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Top 10 Reasons You Should Choose To Live In A Single...

Many of you probably think your college experience will be incomplete without the right of passage we commonly refer to as The Roommate.

For those of you brave enough to stray off this path, here are the top 10  reasons (actually it's really ten reasons in no partic

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Parents: There's Much To Learn From An Alcoholic Roommate
With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, paranoid parents of college-bound teens now have even more irrelevant issues with which to pester the administration. As reported this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, it seems that the new trend for inco... MORE »
Link: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/BacktoSchool/story?id=34...
Rooming with Friends: Ach Ya or Nisht Nisht?
“Will I try to suffocate my roommate with my pillow in their sleep because they are not the person I thought they were?” is an age-old question. Many of you incoming noobs out there have probably spent some time this summer wondering whether your high school friend will make a good roommat... MORE »
Crappy Roommate? Just Butter Him Up A Bit


So you have an 8am, but your roommate gets to sleep til noon? Don't be bitter (thinking, hell if I can't sleep, no one can!), or you'll get buttered. Slipping in butter, that is. Okay, seriously, just watch the video. It's funny.

Link: http://gigglesugar.com/256229
Latest comment by Anonymous: your roommate's a dick.
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