Living at college is full of excitement and mystery. Students are fully immersed in a new environment with new people, including a roommate. Sometimes roommates meet each other and have an instant connection and are great friends; however, some people are not so lucky.
When students come to college, they begin to share their room with somebody new. That was the opposite for freshman Sahara Burkeholder. Burkeholder was having disagreements with the students she lived with before luckily her older sister, Cheyenne, had an open bed in her dorm.
According to the Burkeholders, they disagree and bicker like how they do at home.
“She can be a little mean sometimes,” Sahara said. “She bosses me around and thinks that I’m her maid.”
“Whenever we try to hang out or do something together we end up arguing because we can’t agree on something,” older sister Cheyenne Burkeholder said.
Freshman Olivia Schiffert got along moderately well until after midterms. Schiffert went into her room after a club meeting to see towels all over the floor because the refrigerator began to leak. Her roommate claimed the refrigerator leaked because Schiffert “leaned on it” when she went to open the blinds. “All of the stuff under my bed was ruined,” Schiffert said. “My backpack and books were ruined then the stuff under my bed had water stains.”
Sumi Sunni, freshman, had a roommate who slept with a tent over her bed. She had a black zip-up tent with windows. The roommate told Sunni the tent helped her sleep; however “she was on her phone the entire time.”
“It made me really uncomfortable because she never left her bed,” Sunni said. “One time she got up while I was sleeping and I heard her unzip her tent to turn off the lights.”
Education major Miranda Anderson has a blast with her high-energy roommate while living in East together. “She has moments where she needs to just let it out and starts dancing and singing crazily to her songs even though she can’t sing that well,” Anderson said.
Freshman Allison Thomas and her roommate got along moderately well. Thomas moved to a different room during the fall semester and is currently trying to move again to be with a friend; this will be her third room this year. Thomas recalls one of her previous roommates being a big fan of Chucky from Child’s Play.
“She had a Chucky doll and it was really scary,” said Thomas. “One time I went into the room and she was watching Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with him.”
