Roommate Drama is Bad Drama

So in my tenor here at WKU, I have had some good roommates and some god awful ones as well. I have had so many different experiences at times its rather comical now. I just want to share some of my experiences with you so you know what to look for in a potential roommate.
My freshman year I had a roommate for 3 weeks before I moved to the first floor of my dorm. I had a private room for the rest of the year, but we still got a long great and even hung out on occasions. Sophomore year wasn't so cheery.
My roommate that well fall semester was very clingy and I hate that. She would always ask me where I was going and so forth like she was my mother. Irked the living daylights out of me. I did invited her to some things that I was doing, like my bible study and things, but after a few failed appearance I just stopped. She would always say well you don't invite me to anything your doing which was complete bull. The only thing that we actually agreed on and could do with out fighting is watch and talk about Laguna Beach. She got to the point where she was never in the room and I decided to rearrange my side of the room and she finally shows up and has a fit like I touched her stuff. I could go on really about it but I'll spare you the stories. She ended up dropping out that fall semester because of illness and I got that room to myself for the rest of the year.
Now my favorite roommate was my roommate junior year (the first jr. year lol). She was so nice, we had the same morals, and so forth. But my favorite thing about her was...she always baked goodies for me haha. She would always bake stuff and we would eat it. Sometimes I would give it to the boys that lived down the hall from us. Now she was a bit anti-social which is totally different than me but I got past that. She ended up taking her last semester online at home because she only had 9 hours left and couldn't live on campus. So I had a private room the next semester.
Last year (O8-09) was the worse year in the dorm that I had. My first roommate was a clean freak. I am clean but I'm not OCD about it either. I had a lot of stuff so my side was kinda cluttered compared to hers. We finally got to a point where we just got over it, but she moved into another room with her friend and I had the room to myself. We actually get a long better now. Then for the last few weeks of school another girl or should I say girl(s) moved in. My roommate and her friend were always together, in our room. The other girl acts like she couldn't stay in her own room by herself. It was soo annoying. Plus I got to hear about all the drama that was going on with them, I'm pretty sure I never asked to hear their whole life story. But they got a room together in the spring in a different dorm
But the story that trumps them all is last spring semester. It was just horrific. The girl that moved in, I knew her, but it's different when you live with people. She was umm...how do i say this nicely....promiscuous. I mean my big red flag was when she had a big ole box of condoms on her desk. We just had totally different morals. I was kept quiet and kept my composure for most of the semester until I walked in on her having sex in our room! First of all, have some self respect, I would never do that in a dorm. Plus you could have put a sign up that said something. But this story gets even better. When i come back in the room and start to get ready to go to bed, they start going at it again!!! I went ballistic and lets just say it never happened again.

I know this is long but I tell you this to warn you, try to room with someone you know you will get a long with. Some one who has the same morals and things as you. try to save yourself from all the unnecessary drama that I had to go through. Happy roommate hunting.

Your Shoes Don't Have to Match Your Shirt and Pants

Kiwi. Banana. Apple. Blackberry. Pomegranate. Plum. Strawberry. Rug.
Apricot. Raspberry. Tangerine. Mango. Passion fruit. Pineapple. Chemistry.

There are times when a sequence does not make sense. There are also times when a sequence does not have to make sense. That is how you should think of a college education, like the latter sentence.

This semester, I am enrolled in two bi-term (the first or second half of the semester) classes that I do not need. Both of them are about food. Both of them have nothing to do with my major. Both of them require a lot more work than I had initially expected. Both of those classes are awesome and extremely relevant to my life.

Although these classes are totally out of line with my current route of studies (Communication Studies and Spanish... oh yeah! ♥), they are probably going to be the most beneficial classes I will take this semester.

I will not get into the specifics of the two classes beyond the fact that they both examine the role that food plays in our health, policies, environment, and overall culture. I am learning information that I would have never taken the time to learn on my own had I not enrolled myself in these classes.

My point is, the route of classes you take during your college years does not have to make total sense. It does not have to be some perfect sequence or some "race to the end."

Advice from a senior: Take your time. Relax. Avoid predictability. Take the unbeaten path every now and then. You will develop new areas of interest, new skills, new pools of knowledge. You will appreciate the opportunity to learn while you are still in college.

So, that is enough "waxing poetic" with ya'll for a late Saturday night. Until next time... steer off course a bit... live a little!