Dorm Life

[Fantasy Dreamer]

Here I am, sitting at my laptop in my dorm room at college. Yes, that's right, I have finally joined the college students here on C.A.A. in the wonderful world of dorm life!

My room mate is my pastor's daughter, I've known her for five years. We are great friends, and also my suit mates seem really nice. I hope that we will get along with them well over the winter. I will be going home every weekend (as college is only about 45 minutes away, so I can do so) to work, but I will be living here during the week.

So, what fun/horror stories do y'all have? Please share them. I'm sure I'll have some within the next few months... if not sooner!

I'm so excited! I can't wait for classes to start Wednesday!

[Nia-chan]

Good luck <3 I don't have any stories to share yet, but when I do I'll post them

[Mangafanatic]

I don't have a story of my own, but a friend of mine had a CRAZY room mate and we had LOADS of stories on her. One of the best, I think, however, was one evening around one in the morning when my friend went into her room and found her room mate asleep in her bed, lying on her stomach with her fingers laced together and her hands on the back of her head. Now, my friend crept in VERY quietly, so as not to disturb her roommate, but, once she was in the room, her roommate popped straight up in bed, looked at my friend and said in this dry, monotone voice, "Come here. I want to tell you something so you won't be so down on yourself. Come here. I want to tell you something so you won't be so down on yourself. Come here. I want to tell you something so you won't be so down on yourself."

As one might imagine, my friend was out of there as fast as lightning. She looked like she had seen a ghost. Frankly, I think that would have been less frightening.

[Nia-chan]

I don't have a story of my own, but a friend of mine had a CRAZY room mate and we had LOADS of stories on her. One of the best, I think, however, was one evening around one in the morning when my friend went into her room and found her room mate asleep in her bed, lying on her stomach with her fingers laced together and her hands on the back of her head. Now, my friend crept in VERY quietly, so as not to disturb her roommate, but, once she was in the room, her roommate popped straight up in bed, looked at my friend and said in this dry, monotone voice, "Come here. I want to tell you something so you won't be so down on yourself. Come here. I want to tell you something so you won't be so down on yourself. Come here. I want to tell you something so you won't be so down on yourself."

As one might imagine, my friend was out of there as fast as lightning. She looked like she had seen a ghost. Frankly, I think that would have been less frightening.

More stories about crazy roommate plz xD

[Mangafanatic]

Well, there was this other time that me and my friend and the aforementioned roommate were in my friend's room and her room mate came into the room and started fooling with things in her closet. So, we're just talking, minding our own business and then *BAHM* she drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes. Naturally, we were concerned. I rushed over to her, pulled her into my arms and started trying to get her to wake up. At this point, she comes to and says "I didn't faint. I simply lost the will to stand."


So, yeah.

[Puguni]

Ummm, not yet. XD If only you posted two weeks from now, lol.

Well, I do have these summer camp-that-was-like-college stories.

Once, the rest of my suite mates decided they wanted to make a trash pile. So they just threw trash in a corner next to the couch. It piled up pretty high, before the RAs came by and made us pick it up.

Also, whenever we got care packages, we put them all in the cabinet. My suitemates invited me to eat their food, but being too polite, I declined. Then I got my own care package, which was exciting because it had lots of candies and chocolate and Asian treats, and put it in with the rest.

A few days later, one of my suite mates saw me eating their Nerd Rope, or something like that.

"Oh, you're finally eating our food too?"

"...If you're going to eat my food, I'm going to eat yours."

They ate my Reese's. DX

Then there was this pretty cool guy, who was in the same building, but not the same rooms, who blasted Beethoven on a regular basis. One day, he came out with a huge ice block named "Aeneas" and carried it around, finally smashing it after breakfast. We found out that he put water in leftover food packages, ie. potato chip bag, and stuck in the freezer.

[cbwing0]

Welcome to college life. I graduated in May, so I can still vaguely remember what it was like to be a student .

The quality of your dorm experience will vary greatly based on your choice and/or luck in the roommate assignment process. I was fortunate to have a randomly assigned roomate who was both Christian and relatively quiet, so my dorm experience was mostly positive.

The part that I hated most was the a capella groups that would come and sing at the time of night when decent people (like myself) were trying to get to sleep for early classes the next morning. That and people smoking/talking on the balcony, because open windows were a necessity due to the lack of air conditioning.

My strangest dorm experience was a kid who decided to play the violin in front of the dorm one evening. He only did it once, and I never saw him again.

[Wave]

Lets see while I went to college I stayed in the dorms for two years. our dorms were set up in an old hospital building. I have it on good authority that the area that I stayed in most of the time was once the morgue. Fun/horror stories... lets see... Some one set the microwave in the lobby on fire once at 12:30am. Fire alarm went off, I bout jumped out of my skin, and then went out into the cold January air and stood around for an hour or so. Cold! Cold! COLD!! When I first stared there there was a larger room down the hall form me that four Christen guys lived in. I became pretty good friends with all of them. I used to go over there a lot and watch them play Halo. They had a "Double-decker" couch. One couch was sitting on this raised platform and another couch was sitting under the platform For a wile they had two tv, one at each couches level. Horror story. My room mate once came home drunk at 2am and typed loudly on his compute till 3am. Another one of my room mates got me into anime. Before that time I couldn't have told you were Japan was. I was bored one weekend so I asked him if I could barrow some of his InuYasha dvd. Good times!

Edit Oh Oh I just remembered I got to tell this story. There never was such a person how had such a knack for forgetting his keys and getting looked out of his room and the dorm building as me. I wold consider it a good week if I only looked my self out one. The best looked out of my room story ever goes some thing like this. I was staying the weekend witch I did quit frequently. Most of the dorm student go home on the weekends so the there are vary few people around to help you out if you get looked out. of your room. So I'm in my room taking some thing with sharp edges apart. And what do you know, I cut my self. I sliced my self open right down to the boon. So I'm like bleeding all over the place. And my fist thought is, "I got to get to the bathroom and get this cleaned up." So I rush out of my room dripping blood as I go, and just as the door laches shut. I remember that I do not have my keys. And of core I am now looked out of my room. I go into the bathroom and run the cut under water for a minute or so. making a complete mess of that sink. The bleeding dose not seem to be slowing down. I have to get help. So I leave the building. And shore enough just as the door laches shut I remember that I need my key to open it. I am now looked out of the building and still bleeding profusely. The long and the short of it is I walked all the way to the other side of campus, where they have some apparents for people that stay there all the time, and found some one with some surgical tap and we taped my finger up good. and they I called the dorm manager and he let me back in. Oh yah and I went to the doctors the next day and got a tetniss shot.



wave.

[Fantasy Dreamer]

Welcome to college life. I graduated in May, so I can still vaguely remember what it was like to be a student .

The quality of your dorm experience will vary greatly based on your choice and/or luck in the roommate assignment process. I was fortunate to have a randomly assigned roomate who was both Christian and relatively quiet, so my dorm experience was mostly positive.

The part that I hated most was the a capella groups that would come and sing at the time of night when decent people (like myself) were trying to get to sleep for early classes the next morning. That and people smoking/talking on the balcony, because open windows were a necessity due to the lack of air conditioning.

My strangest dorm experience was a kid who decided to play the violin in front of the dorm one evening. He only did it once, and I never saw him again.

Well, my roommate is great, and I've already mentioned why in my first post. So I have no problems there. And its a tobacco free campus, so smoking isn't allowed. Anyone caught gets a $50 fine. But open windows is necessary because the dorms here are not air conditioned.

In response to Wave: wow, that sounds painful, you cutting your finger. It sounds like you had an interesting experience. However, I'm good at taking my keys with me. And we have a bathroom between every two rooms here, so we don't have to leave the dorm room to use it. We have suit mates instead, which is nice. So I won't have the problem of being locked out (hopefully).

[Etoh*the*Greato]

One of my suitemates had a nightmare for a roommate. The guy shows up at four in the morning drunk, crawls in to bed. Twenty minutes later he needs to puke. What does he do? He rolls over, throws up on the tile floor, and rolls back in to bed. He spent much of the semester pelting anyone who opened the blinds in the room or made noise before five in the afternoon.

Oh! And once a guy walked in to my dorm where he saw my roomy's collection of D&D books. Now, mind you, my roomy and I are both ministry students. He turns to me, with a dead serious look on his face, points to the books and says "Don't you go summoning no demons in here."

I looked up from what I was doing and said, "yeah, sure, I'll get right on that."

Ohhhh, I have dorm stories. Loads of 'em.

[Fantasy Dreamer]

Let's hear some more! How terrible....

[Doubleshadow]

My last roommate drove me nuts. She bought DVD's of obscure TV shows and watched them or just listened to them (one room dorm). She bought a Fraggle Rock DVD, and once the episode concluded, she left it on the home screen, so it played the jingle over and over and over... while I'm trying to do my homework. I finally asked her of she would turn it off, and she just granted "yeah" and made it perfectly clear she wasn't going to do anything. What mature behavior from a fifth year senior.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I was spending some time at a friend's dorm once (co-ed dorm) and some guy walked out of his dorm room with nothing but a towel on and said: "Man, that was the best hentai ever!"

Then he flashed his Johnson to everyone in the dorm hallway... Most of us shielded our eyes.

Yes it's a true story.

[Peanut]

Yay living in dorms! I just moved into my own dorm this past saturday. I'd never met my roomate in person up until that point but he's cool.

[termyt]

It seems to me that nudity is to be expected in male-populated dorms. I personally was a commuter student, so I've never lived in a college dorm, but I do have a few stories from my friends who have.

The "best" one is the Naked Ray story. I actually lived this one as Ray and I worked a week of summer camp together as counselors. Ray had a habit of only wearing a towel as well, but he typically had it wrapped around his neck like a cape. He definitely made a lasting impression pretty much everywhere he went. Study groups, dorm meetings, hotels – nothing was safe. I here he’s a youth minister now.

[Fantasy Dreamer]

Yay living in dorms! I just moved into my own dorm this past saturday. I'd never met my roomate in person up until that point but he's cool.

Another fellow college freshman on CAA! Yay! Its nice to know we are both just starting. Here I was beginning to think everyone was above freshman.

Anyway, that flasher dude and the 'naked Ray' is terrible! I am SO glad I'm a girl and that the dorms aren't co-ed! If I were a guy I doubt I'd want to even stay on campus. I'd drive the 45+ minutes from home to here everyday of class. Ugh....

[creed4]

Not much happened to me when I lived in dorms, then again I didn't do much

[Shinja]

broken firealarm that allways went off at 2am, some times 2-3 times a night, and you had to get out or be fined by the fire dept. luckily i was never in the shower when it happened because it also seemed to frequint on cold nights-_-

[mechana2015]

I have some great dorm stories. I've had 3 different roomates, one quiet, one awful, and one amazing.

[KeybladeWarrior]

I haven't stayed in a dorm yet so no stories whatsoever for the time being. Good luck and have a great time. College life is pretty awesome yet hard with the homework and studying.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Let's hear some more! How terrible....

Alright. I lived on the floor with most of the wrestling team for my school. One day I had the door open doing some stuff on my computer when I heard two guys hollar from opposite sides of the hallway. Suddenly I hear the sounds of feet rushing towards eachother and two fully naked guys smack right in to eachother outside my door and start practicing wrestling moves.

[termyt]

Disturbing, but not surprising.

Also disturbing, but not quite up to that level, The Buddy Stall.

Picture a typical public restroom - a row of toilets with metal walls between and doors in the front.

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In one of the restrooms in my brother's dorm, the wall between two of the toilets had been removed and one of the doors replaced with the wall:
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The reported reason for this was for handicap requirements - regulations require a larger stall to accommodate wheelchairs. However, since both toilets were still there, that explanation doesn't quite hold up as well.

[Fantasy Dreamer]

Oh my. I couldn't imagine going into the same stall and using one toilet while someone else used the second. I wouldn't even do that with my closest of close friends. Thats hilarious though. It really makes you wonder about people sometimes.

[Puguni]

Oh my. I couldn't imagine going into the same stall and using one toilet while someone else used the second. I wouldn't even do that with my closest of close friends. Thats hilarious though. It really makes you wonder about people sometimes.

You hang up a blanket or towel.

[Ashley]

This is my fifth semester in the dorms, but only my second with a roommate (I had a single room for a whole). However, that didn't stop people from doing mean things to me.

Probably the worst was when I went to the bathroom and my friends reached in and turned off the light! It didn't help that I am afraid of the dark. So I had to fumble to get out of the stall and find the lightswitch on the OUTSIDE of the room. Oy.

They would also come by my room at say, 4 am, and bang on the door just to listen to me scream and fall out of bed.

[Wave]

Ha! the more I think about it the more stories I remember. This is a good clean one, all though it dose not have much to do with dorm life. There was this guy in my class named Johnny. He was a nice guy, but just a little strange. He had a done a lot of drugs in his younger days. One day we where sitting in class. Ow teacher John was explaining how a puls of electric energy propagates down a transmission line, when Johnny raised his had with a question. "Yes?" Our teacher asked, and then Johnny asked as strait and Serious as anything "John, are those your really ears?" My teacher was so surprised that he stood there mute a hole 30 second before saying "Um, Yah, I think so." Oh It was the funniest thing ever. Just before we graduated I gave Johnny a short that said "Worming Mouth movers faster then brain."

[Nia-chan]

Another fellow college freshman on CAA! Yay! Its nice to know we are both just starting. Here I was beginning to think everyone was above freshman.

Anyway, that flasher dude and the 'naked Ray' is terrible! I am SO glad I'm a girl and that the dorms aren't co-ed! If I were a guy I doubt I'd want to even stay on campus. I'd drive the 45+ minutes from home to here everyday of class. Ugh....

I'm a new college freshman too *high five*

[termyt]

I would not turn the light out on anyone, but

They would also come by my room at say, 4 am, and bang on the door just to listen to me scream and fall out of bed.

that sounds pretty funny. I would totally do that.

[Peanut]

Disturbing, but not surprising.

Also disturbing, but not quite up to that level, The Buddy Stall.

Picture a typical public restroom - a row of toilets with metal walls between and doors in the front.

_/_/_
|0|0|

In one of the restrooms in my brother's dorm, the wall between two of the toilets had been removed and one of the doors replaced with the wall:
___/_
|0 0|

The reported reason for this was for handicap requirements - regulations require a larger stall to accommodate wheelchairs. However, since both toilets were still there, that explanation doesn't quite hold up as well.

This just...well...wins...since I've only been living in the dorms like a week I only have one good story really. A few nights ago most of the people in my dorm (it's an all guy dorm in case you were wondering) had a giant nerf battle between the top floor and the bottom floor. After we were finished, we decided to go around our dorm as a group and knock on some doors. We would then stand there with all of our nerf guns pointed at the door so when they would open up they would see a large group of guys standing there like they were about to shoot them. The reactions we got were priceless.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

This just...well...wins...since I've only been living in the dorms like a week I only have one good story really. A few nights ago most of the people in my dorm (it's an all guy dorm in case you were wondering) had a giant nerf battle between the top floor and the bottom floor. After we were finished, we decided to go around our dorm as a group and knock on some doors. We would then stand there with all of our nerf guns pointed at the door so when they would open up they would see a large group of guys standing there like they were about to shoot them. The reactions we got were priceless.

That totally reminds me of the best night I ever had in the dorms!

Alright, so my car broke down on the opposite side of campus, so I was walking back from my night class when I get punched in the face by this GIANT thunderstorm. It starts pouring like a hundred yards from my door. At fifty yards all the power in the school goes off. I walk in to find everyone congregating in the hallways. I go up to my area and it's just my roomy, the wrestling guys, and a few others sitting in the hall, talking, reading, enjoying ourselves. A guy down the way, Homer, brings out his yukelele and starts jamming for us. At some point someone runs up stairs and says, "Guys! Guys! Someone down on the second floor is running around in a Ninja suit!" One of the wrestlers jumps to his feet and says, "I know what to do!" Five minutes later he comes out of his room in a skin tight Spiderman outfit. He runs down and comes back sopping wet like five later. "What happened?" We all ask. "He had a sword..."
After about an hour the lights on the emergency lights go out too, so my roomy and a friend go to walmart to get some candles and then to Denny's for some food. When we get back the power is still out. Around midnight or one A guy is wandering around with some toy lightsabers he bought at Walmart. I join him and together we roam the halls. After mugging a few people with the lightsabers and having a duel in the common area we start knocking on peoples doors and impersonating the RD. When they come out, we whip out the blades and start pounding on them.

Best. Night. Ever.