Living Away From Home

Here are the three things both my roomate and I wished we'd known before starting school:

- Emptying the Trash Prevents Bug Infestations; even if the dorms are very clean and don't look like there are bugs to be infected with
- You are allowed to irritate your roomate; I was so nervous about annoying my roomate that I pretty much avoided her for two months, did homework in the library rather than keep her up, and did not play music off my headphones. It made her think I didn't like her. Eventually I couldn't stand all the work that went into not annoying her, and she got more annoyed because she was convinced I hated her and decided to hate me back, and I prematurely requested a room change. I wish I hadn't done that.
- You are Not allowed to irritate your roomate; my boyfriends roomate stays up all night playing World of Warcraft, then sleeps all day and skips classes. My boyfriend is a straight A honours student, but the ridiculous hours killed his sleep and now he's struggling to survive to the end of the quarter. He is, however, too proud to request a room change.

Jam it back in, in the dark.