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 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I just got my college dorm assignment. And what do I get Assigned? A triple in Clean & Sober living. Where you cant play video games or loud music.
What the? All because I checked a box that said "When I study I like to stay focused." So no more Blue Moon, Sierra Nevadas or or Limaritas for making studying easier.
And No video games?
Oh well, atleast I get cable TV.

Wait, what? The type of dorm you live in dictates what leisure activities you can do in your own time at "home", outside of class?

What sort of totalitarian control freak institution is this? The Peoples' University of North Korea?

A noise restriction is fair and reasonable (and that would have been useful for me in my first year of Uni when I had a Nigerian guy below my bedroom frequently playing music at 4am so loud my room reverberated. Great guy but god was his music annoying).

But banning video games?

Must be one of those schools that believes that video games cause world violence and wars and our current political situation.

Or cause people to be violent criminals.

Well this thread hit page two and no one mentioned this so I think I need to: are you even old enough to drink legally? This sounds like your first year of college in which case you are probably not. Now I know we all had our share of alcohol we weren't supposed to have, but dorms usually ban alcohol if you or any of your roommates have a chance of being underage. My old school had the condition that if you were of age then you could store alcohol in your own private room but not where minors can get. So if you're living in the same room as two other guys then they'll ban alcohol because there is no where you can hide it from the kiddies.

I got financial aid and scholarships to pay for most of school, I was lucky in that. But I took loans just so i could get a dorm and later an off campus apt each with my own room and sometimes my own bathroom. Soooo worth it. Also covers that other issue you mentioned about privacy. I think most dorm kids use the shower for that so be prepared for those communal restrooms...shower sandals....need.

Now can you game on a computer but not tv? Never a bad time to join the masterrace.

Tydil wrote:


Now can you game on a computer but not tv? Never a bad time to join the masterrace.

 LordofHats wrote:

Tydil wrote:


Now can you game on a computer but not tv? Never a bad time to join the masterrace.

I have never in my life seen something more accurate than this.

Behold the masterrace!

Behold!

Tydil wrote:
Well this thread hit page two and no one mentioned this so I think I need to: are you even old enough to drink legally? This sounds like your first year of college in which case you are probably not. Now I know we all had our share of alcohol we weren't supposed to have, but dorms usually ban alcohol if you or any of your roommates have a chance of being underage. My old school had the condition that if you were of age then you could store alcohol in your own private room but not where minors can get. So if you're living in the same room as two other guys then they'll ban alcohol because there is no where you can hide it from the kiddies.

I got financial aid and scholarships to pay for most of school, I was lucky in that. But I took loans just so i could get a dorm and later an off campus apt each with my own room and sometimes my own bathroom. Soooo worth it. Also covers that other issue you mentioned about privacy. I think most dorm kids use the shower for that so be prepared for those communal restrooms...shower sandals....need.

Now can you game on a computer but not tv? Never a bad time to join the masterrace.

Yes, I am 21.

Sounds like a bizarre set-up for room choices.....

Although you should be wary of those who decide who is going where on college/university housing. We have a friend who did that job for a year or two, and apparently he and his colleagues used to amuse themselves by doing things like ensuring all the female students in one block all had the same first name. I believe the crowning achievement one year was to put two guys together as flatmates - they had the surnames 'Holmes' and 'Moriarty'.......

Sounds like you got put in a freshman dorm. At my college, almost all the 'underage' students who were in college housing were put in isolated dorms explicitly for people who can't drink legally. So at night, there was only one way into the building and they would have to march past the RA drunk and potentially get written up or worse for being fall down drunk.

We actually had an issue at the college where a girl was dropped off at her dorm, and was so drunk she couldn't get inside and when found she had hypothermia. She ended up dying.

I think if you asked if this is a freshman dorm or if a majority of students are freshman, you might be able to get re-allocated. I would ask simply because a triple is hell. At least in a double you never get worse than 50/50. In a triple, you can be ganged up on.

As for loud music, no one in a dorm should play loud music, and for video games, I remember when I was in the dorm, we got yelled at for being all loud when playing mariokart 64 for hours. We would have battle arena which would reach triple digits and apparently all the taunting and excitement was too loud. They would rather we play games in the lounge and the rooms were for study/sleep.

I think you are basically in a regular underclassmen dorm, and no drinking and no loud noises are pretty standard. :(

And as for women... Get over it. Your roomates will, I guarantee. People have sex with people in the room. The 2 most valuable things I learned from college was how to poop literally anywhere and how to not be shy about where 'relations' happen. When you boil it down, both are natural and aside from a fleeting embarrassment, can anyone actually get mad at you for either action? nope.

But triple room, that sucks bro. Try to get out of that one.

 Inquisitor Gonzo wrote:
Sounds like a bizarre set-up for room choices.....

Although you should be wary of those who decide who is going where on college/university housing. We have a friend who did that job for a year or two, and apparently he and his colleagues used to amuse themselves by doing things like ensuring all the female students in one block all had the same first name. I believe the crowning achievement one year was to put two guys together as flatmates - they had the surnames 'Holmes' and 'Moriarty'.......

Find your friend and give him a high five for me, because that's hilarious

I went to college for a year and got stuck in a Triple, and it wasn't as bad as everyone is making it out to be; We had a lot more room than most (Comes down to organizing your crap), one of us was typically gone at any given point so it was never too crowded, and we all came from totally different backgrounds (Southern car dude, northern technofreak, eastern hunter).

The two worst things that happened were when I bought about $20 worth of Koolaid (Hey, $1 for 6 bottles is not a deal I'm going to pass up) and everyone thought it was all the black guys, the racist a-holes. The other thing was I had myself, Roommate A, Roomate B, B's Girlfriend. By the end of it it was myself, Roommate A, A's Girlfriend, and Roommate B, with it being the same group of people; that caused some serious problems.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I just got my college dorm assignment. And what do I get Assigned? A triple in Clean & Sober living. Where you cant play video games or loud music.
What the? All because I checked a box that said "When I study I like to stay focused." So no more Blue Moon, Sierra Nevadas or or Limaritas for making studying easier.
And No video games?
Oh well, atleast I get cable TV.

Wait, what? The type of dorm you live in dictates what leisure activities you can do in your own time at "home", outside of class?

What sort of totalitarian control freak institution is this? The Peoples' University of North Korea?

A noise restriction is fair and reasonable (and that would have been useful for me in my first year of Uni when I had a Nigerian guy below my bedroom frequently playing music at 4am so loud my room reverberated. Great guy but god was his music annoying).

But banning video games?

Must be one of those schools that believes that video games cause world violence and wars and our current political situation.

Or cause people to be violent criminals.

I wasn't aware George Bush and Vladimir Putin were gamers.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I just got my college dorm assignment. And what do I get Assigned? A triple in Clean & Sober living. Where you cant play video games or loud music.
What the? All because I checked a box that said "When I study I like to stay focused." So no more Blue Moon, Sierra Nevadas or or Limaritas for making studying easier.
And No video games?
Oh well, atleast I get cable TV.

Wait, what? The type of dorm you live in dictates what leisure activities you can do in your own time at "home", outside of class?

What sort of totalitarian control freak institution is this? The Peoples' University of North Korea?

A noise restriction is fair and reasonable (and that would have been useful for me in my first year of Uni when I had a Nigerian guy below my bedroom frequently playing music at 4am so loud my room reverberated. Great guy but god was his music annoying).

But banning video games?

Must be one of those schools that believes that video games cause world violence and wars and our current political situation.

Or cause people to be violent criminals.

I wasn't aware George Bush and Vladimir Putin were gamers.

Neither did I.

Well they do treat war like a game.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Wait, what? The type of dorm you live in dictates what leisure activities you can do in your own time at "home", outside of class?

What sort of totalitarian control freak institution is this? The Peoples' University of North Korea?

A noise restriction is fair and reasonable (and that would have been useful for me in my first year of Uni when I had a Nigerian guy below my bedroom frequently playing music at 4am so loud my room reverberated. Great guy but god was his music annoying).

But banning video games?

It's the People's Republic of California

Okay, here's what you do to get out of this situation: you need to dress like a woman and ... no wait... that's how you get out of combat duty in wartime.

Hmmmm....

Okay, how about this? Go to the office that decides who gets put in what dorm. Go there drunk. Like, really drunk. Like, so drunk you have to have a friend strap you to a dolly and wheel your butt in. I'm talking *four* sheets to the wind. Make sure you bring the sheet of paper that has your dorm assignment on it with you. Have it in your hand when your buddy wheels you into the office. Ask why you were put in that particular dorm, and then make a ruckus about how that room is not suitable. Don't mention the Clean and Sober thing. Fixate on something else. Tell them the color of the carpets is against your religion. Say it like you mean it. Complain about the lack of freeze-dried vegetables in the ventilation ducts. Go buck-wild, is what I'm saying. Then, after you've made your complaint, vomit on the desk and pass out while dropping the paper with your dorm assignment on it onto the floor. Its important to put the vomit on the desk and the paper on the floor. Or vice versa. Just don't put the paper with the puke, or this whole exercise will be for nothing. Nobody in that office is going to want to pick up a pukey paper. Once you are unconscious, have your friend wheel you out and take you to the emergency room to have your stomach pumped and your blood changed for a lower octane. By the time you wake up, you should find that the college has assigned you an entirely different dorm.



Possibly in another state.

 Slarg232 wrote:

 Inquisitor Gonzo wrote:
Sounds like a bizarre set-up for room choices.....

Although you should be wary of those who decide who is going where on college/university housing. We have a friend who did that job for a year or two, and apparently he and his colleagues used to amuse themselves by doing things like ensuring all the female students in one block all had the same first name. I believe the crowning achievement one year was to put two guys together as flatmates - they had the surnames 'Holmes' and 'Moriarty'.......

Find your friend and give him a high five for me, because that's hilarious

At my school they stuck a "Holmes" and "Watson" together in the same room. Even better was that they were both NROTC midshipmen, it was more than mildly amusing how much abuse they got from the ROTC instructors.
But anyway, I was in a triple my freshman year of college... it was the worst experience ever for me, but I also kind of lived with cave trolls who didn't leave the room, like ever. By the end of the first semester I couldn't even really enter the room, between the foul stench and their bizarre sleeping patterns of staying up all night and sleeping all damned day, and their dirty underwear forming a new layer of carpet on the floor, it was miserable. One of them ended up getting thrown out of school, the other one is getting paid 6 figures by google now, yeah he was THAT smart.

If you're old enough to drink you have, in my opinion, the right to housing wherein you're allowed to exercise that legal right in the comfort of your own dormitory... or shower if you're into that sort of thing.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Wait, what? The type of dorm you live in dictates what leisure activities you can do in your own time at "home", outside of class?

What sort of totalitarian control freak institution is this? The Peoples' University of North Korea?

A noise restriction is fair and reasonable (and that would have been useful for me in my first year of Uni when I had a Nigerian guy below my bedroom frequently playing music at 4am so loud my room reverberated. Great guy but god was his music annoying).

But banning video games?

It's the People's Republic of California

I went to Berkeley, the leftmost of leftist institutions here, and never heard of any dorm outlawing video games. Drinks for minors? Yeah, but video games? That's wacky.

My wife's freshman dorm had a growing room.

PS: It sounds like someone put Hotsauceman into the dorm for troubled kids. Do you have a police record, Mister Sauceman?


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Yeah, the "Clean and Sober Living" dorm makes me think it's a dorm primarily for recovering addicts.

So it's a drink free zone? Rather than just a party free zone? I can totally understand why people would want to avoid being surrounded by parties while living on campus.

 Fafnir wrote:
You need to realize that the best part about being belligerently drunk is that any trouble you end up getting in is only a problem for future you. And that guy's an donkey-cave, so feth him and keep drinking anyway.

I'm keeping this quote, it's the ultimate truth.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I just got my college dorm assignment. And what do I get Assigned? A triple in Clean & Sober living. Where you cant play video games or loud music.
What the? All because I checked a box that said "When I study I like to stay focused." So no more Blue Moon, Sierra Nevadas or or Limaritas for making studying easier.
And No video games?
Oh well, atleast I get cable TV.

What are you on about? What do you mean Clean and Sober Living?

Wait you're in a room with three other guys? Is this a dorm or the Army? My Boy had his own bedroom.

Whats the issue with sober? Thats what bars are for.

Video games-how do they control whats on TV. Its your TV right? What kind of weird Twilight Zone place are you at? Oh wait, its California.

On My end we moved the Boy and three other dudes into their own house at Aggieville. They intend to be there permanently until they graduate. I didn't realize until later that he just flew the nest and will be away even during the summers. Frazzled sad.

 Frazzled wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I just got my college dorm assignment. And what do I get Assigned? A triple in Clean & Sober living. Where you cant play video games or loud music.
What the? All because I checked a box that said "When I study I like to stay focused." So no more Blue Moon, Sierra Nevadas or or Limaritas for making studying easier.
And No video games?
Oh well, atleast I get cable TV.

What are you on about? What do you mean Clean and Sober Living?

Wait you're in a room with three other guys? Is this a dorm or the Army? My Boy had his own bedroom.

Whats the issue with sober? Thats what bars are for.

Video games-how do they control whats on TV. Its your TV right? What kind of weird Twilight Zone place are you at? Oh wait, its California.

On My end we moved the Boy and three other dudes into their own house at Aggieville. They intend to be there permanently until they graduate. I didn't realize until later that he just flew the nest and will be away even during the summers. Frazzled sad.

Ehh, I plan to come back during summers. Im offered a nice summer job i love. I mean seriousy. How many jobs let you try out the new ride after closing for just fun.

Load up on heroin and hack your school. Or drop out. Or go to housing and request a change. But try the first option.

That sounds like an awful dorm.

It isnt all bad. My roommates play DnD

Things to do:
1) Talk to Res Life about room assignment. A triple doesnt have to be terrible, but it has to be with friends rather than randos. Say you would prefer a dorm with students closer to your age. Give it a week or two that way you know how your roommates act and can throw that knowledge behind the case to move out.

2) If you like your roommates, broach the subject of drinking with them and eventually bring up the subject of a couple of cold "sodas" in the fridge for communal drinking. As long as everyone is of legal drinking age of course. I'd never advocate drinking under age... >_>
2.a) Sneaking booze into your dorm is as simple as a backpack and a towel.
2.b) Don't be a dolt about noise levels while legally consuming alcohol in a dry dorm hall.

Source: Spent 5 years at a university with a campus wide no alcohol policy. Successfully hid booze in my room for 3 of those years (didn't really drink until late Sophomore early Junior year)

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
It isnt all bad. My roommates play DnD

Well that is a good up side.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 MrDwhitey wrote:
This is my favourite thread on the forum at the moment.

Agreed.

Its hard not to laugh at peoples misfortune during life.

Fixed that for you.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
It isnt all bad. My roommates play DnD

Oh yeah. That totally makes up for it.

Again does this mean you have four guys in one room?

Is there one tv in this room or what?

We have to provide a TV, but we get free cable and internet.

Just bring a TV outside on the lawn and drink and play video games with loud music playing and when people complain say.... what i'm not doing it IN the dorm...