Many people go to the sanctuary of their homes to escape the madness of the day, but when people have roommates the madness can be right inside their home.
Katharine Hoffman, a senior marketing major, said when she lived with her roommate, she never knew what to expect when she’d come home.

“I’d walk in and not know what was going to happen at the end of the night,” Hoffman said. “I’d just come in and there’d be a queen sized air mattress in the middle of the apartment and ten of her friends, just all sitting around drinking wine.”

Hoffman said that another roommate she had was rarely home, but when she was, things would get a little weird.

“At three in the morning she’d come in, turn the heater all the way up and turn the shower on as hot as it would go to humidify the room because she had really bad allergies,” Hoffman said. “She’d take her allergy medication, turn on all the lights and then leave. So she’d leave all the water faucets on, all the lights on every night, for three or four months!”

Hoffman lives in her own home now and says her only roommate is her cat who occasionally trashes the house, but is easier to deal with than humans.

Avery Whittington, a psychology senior, said after the first roommate he had in boarding school, he knows things could always be worse.

“This was my first roommate,”said Whittington, “and the first night there, he had his girlfriend sleep over and they were just getting it on while I was in the room. That was a great introduction to the school. I just kind of laid there all night like, “What is going on? What did I get myself into?”
As the semester drew on, Whittington said things didn’t get any better.

“He’d get really paranoid for some reason,” Whittington said. “Like whenever he’d change clothes, he’d get his girlfriend to come in the room and sit and watch me to make sure I wasn’t looking at him.”

Two weeks into living there, Whittington said his roommate barged in while he was taking a nap one afternoon, telling him to get up and accusing him of talking about him behind his back.

“I was like ‘I don’t know anyone here, what are you talking about?’ And he was just going on and on and I was like ‘Sorry, I guess? I don’t remember doing anything but okay,’” Whittington said. “Obviously we didn’t get along that semester.”

Whittington said that they’ve reconnected since then and are on good, cordial terms with one another, now.

“It took three years,” said Whittington. “But since then, everything compared to that, it’s like, it could be worse, so whatever.”
As long as there are roommates,there’s always the chance of things getting a little strange.