I've had a bunch of roommates at RIT. The first one wanted to live with a friend rather than me, so he moved out. He even made false claims that I stank. He said such things in front of people in class even after the RA told him that it was rude.
After a month, my second roomie moved in. I asked him if I smelled and he said no. We talked about lots of stuff and laughed all night sometimes. He was the one who told me about my first roomie talking about me smelling in class.
My third roomie was the only one I was with for a whole year. Then my 4th one wanted a friend with him, so I moved into the friend's room and the friend moved into the roomie's room. There was nobody else in the friend's room, so my 5th roomie moved in after a while.
For my 4th year, they put me in a room at RIT Inn for a month with someone who didn't know sign and kept to himself. He also used up a lot of toilet paper and the boxes of tissues in the bathroom. So I hid some paper to be sure I had some. I met him later and he had learned plenty of sign.
After RIT Inn, they moved me into Sol's with my 7th roomie. My dorm rooms before that were all in Tower A. The new roomie had hearing aids, didn't know sign and was annoyed by my vibrating alarm and even threatened to call Campus Safety on me. I went to housing and they said, duh, he can't do that. Then I changed it to use the light only so he won't be mad.
I had enough of the dorms, so I made plans with three other people to get a Perkins apartment. I was staying in the dorms because I had a scholarship that required staying there. I didn't realize that it was for only two years, so I stayed in the dorms for 4 years except for a month at RIT Inn.
One of the people who were going to be in Perkins with me transferred to Gallaudet, so we had to find a replacement. We did after a while. By that time, I had VR support due to getting a good agent who replaced a lousy one who had left my file lying around doing nothing. They paid for the Perkins apartment in full, even when the fees went up during the spring quarter due to our new 4th roomie moving out. He moved out because of physical difficulties he had walking from Perkins to NTID.
I had some drama in the Perkins apartment due to my other roomies letting in someone who was off of her meds and that caused a lot of trouble, so much that we had to call Public Safety on her when she wasn't around. She was foisting space in the apartment for excessive time against housing policy, sobbing and having suicidal thoughts. When the roomies finally told her to stay away for good, she said she wanted to die in a car crash and nearly ran her car into us on the night before I graduated.
So I had a total of 10 roomies in five years.
Then I graduated and was happy to be away from roomies who were rude, intolerant or invited in crazy people. I found a job and lived in a company apartment with someone else from work. It was nice and quiet there with no silly drama.
Then when my temp job went permanent, I moved to my current location. It's a house where the landlord, his friend and I live. I have my own bedroom and share the bathroom, living room and vegetarian kitchen downstairs with the others. There was a fourth person who moved in on the same day I did. Now he's gone because he got drunk too much and smoked mysterious stuff as well as squeezing and twisting peoples' arms and hands. He also borrowed money and never returned it.
Now I'll move to a one bedroom apartment soon because of my current apartment shutting down due to high heating costs. There, I'll have no roomies, finally giving me my own space.
After a month, my second roomie moved in. I asked him if I smelled and he said no. We talked about lots of stuff and laughed all night sometimes. He was the one who told me about my first roomie talking about me smelling in class.
My third roomie was the only one I was with for a whole year. Then my 4th one wanted a friend with him, so I moved into the friend's room and the friend moved into the roomie's room. There was nobody else in the friend's room, so my 5th roomie moved in after a while.
For my 4th year, they put me in a room at RIT Inn for a month with someone who didn't know sign and kept to himself. He also used up a lot of toilet paper and the boxes of tissues in the bathroom. So I hid some paper to be sure I had some. I met him later and he had learned plenty of sign.
After RIT Inn, they moved me into Sol's with my 7th roomie. My dorm rooms before that were all in Tower A. The new roomie had hearing aids, didn't know sign and was annoyed by my vibrating alarm and even threatened to call Campus Safety on me. I went to housing and they said, duh, he can't do that. Then I changed it to use the light only so he won't be mad.
I had enough of the dorms, so I made plans with three other people to get a Perkins apartment. I was staying in the dorms because I had a scholarship that required staying there. I didn't realize that it was for only two years, so I stayed in the dorms for 4 years except for a month at RIT Inn.
One of the people who were going to be in Perkins with me transferred to Gallaudet, so we had to find a replacement. We did after a while. By that time, I had VR support due to getting a good agent who replaced a lousy one who had left my file lying around doing nothing. They paid for the Perkins apartment in full, even when the fees went up during the spring quarter due to our new 4th roomie moving out. He moved out because of physical difficulties he had walking from Perkins to NTID.
I had some drama in the Perkins apartment due to my other roomies letting in someone who was off of her meds and that caused a lot of trouble, so much that we had to call Public Safety on her when she wasn't around. She was foisting space in the apartment for excessive time against housing policy, sobbing and having suicidal thoughts. When the roomies finally told her to stay away for good, she said she wanted to die in a car crash and nearly ran her car into us on the night before I graduated.
So I had a total of 10 roomies in five years.
Then I graduated and was happy to be away from roomies who were rude, intolerant or invited in crazy people. I found a job and lived in a company apartment with someone else from work. It was nice and quiet there with no silly drama.
Then when my temp job went permanent, I moved to my current location. It's a house where the landlord, his friend and I live. I have my own bedroom and share the bathroom, living room and vegetarian kitchen downstairs with the others. There was a fourth person who moved in on the same day I did. Now he's gone because he got drunk too much and smoked mysterious stuff as well as squeezing and twisting peoples' arms and hands. He also borrowed money and never returned it.
Now I'll move to a one bedroom apartment soon because of my current apartment shutting down due to high heating costs. There, I'll have no roomies, finally giving me my own space.
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