Maybe you can give him some babywipes and a quick lesson on how to wipe.
Toss your cum rags over on his side of the room. Or something to that effect. 
Or buy cheap dollar store perfume and fumigate the room with that. When he complains, tell him anything’s better than smelling his shit-streaked boxers.
A earlier tonight I asked him if he’d take a shower today… he said probably not.
So I gave up on trying to get him to change without being forced to. I talked to my RA, who looked at the room, smelled it (from the hall), and decided she’d do an “intervention”. She just took down the complaints I had, what I’d done about it, and what he’d done.
Later she asked us to meet in the mini office room at the end of the hall. She just went over the complaints she had heard from other people about the smell of the room and that she had smelled the room. He said he had been planning to do laundry tomorrow. yeah… ok.
And about his mess, he said his “disorganization was the only way he could function, and that a clean room would make it impossible for him to feel comfortable in his setting” and that it was only on his half of the room (right next to the door :mad: ).
Although, when I agreed to have him as a roommate he promised he’d keep his place at least pretty clean. There are layers of shirts on the floor. :mad:
She mentioned the other complaints I had.
Like when I found long lists of voyeur porn sites on my laptop before I put a password on it.
Twice.
He explained to my RA that the first time I had found porn (when I said he could borrow it to sign his financial aid work) he had been hit by “hundreds of porn pop-ups” and that I should get software to fix that. I had gallery lists in the history files… 30 or so. I cleaned my laptop thoroughly after that.
The second time he and his friend were drunk while I was out and “were compairing what body parts of a woman should be shaved and what parts should not, and how much.” Yes… That was his excuse.
All of that on my computer.
I told him its fine if he uses my TV if I’m not around, but that I didn’t like hearing anime battles at 3 a.m. He also said he’d get a TV… about a month ago. His mom sent him a grand and he pissed it away on that magic card game and video games. Everyday he says he’s getting a TV tomorrow, either that or or once he gets a late paycheck from before college started 
ok…
My RA told him never to touch anything of mine without asking first.
So he promised he’d be doing his laundry tomorrow, getting the door combo changed monday when the offices were open, that he wouldn’t touch my stuff, and that he’d take showers.
He got a cellphone call as we were finishing up and walked out without saying much but “see ya”. A**HOLE.
I hadn’t seen him until I just came back from downtown, he went someplace else after the meeting.
None of his stuff has moved, his shower stuff that’s been sitting untouched for days was still there, and it still smells like a horse had died.
I opened the window, its about twenty degrees out. This sucks, I’m not going to have another night of this. I’ll talk to the RA tomorrow, if my roommate doesn’t go to another room I’m moving.
Sorta started as an IMHO, sorry if it sounded like a pit thread.
That is a shitty situation. He really sounds like someone that needs to live alone. He’ll probably never make enough changes to be tolerable to live with. Glad to hear that you’re not going to put up with it anymore. Looking at porn on your computer is just too much. He’s taking the comedy too far. What a tard. That kind of happened to a friend of mine, too. Although he and his roommate were sharing a single. His roommate would get up in the middle of the night (when he thought my friend was asleep) to look at porn on his computer and…yeah, you can figure it out.
Good luck with everything.
clayton_e, that is just a really bad situation you’ve got there all around. My first roommate in the dorms and I were constantly at each other for the three semesters we lived together. I can understand the frustration and anger you have, even if I haven’t had to experience weird porn on my computer or the intolerable laundry situation.
It’s good to see that you aren’t falling into the same trap I did. A lack of assertiveness on my part and an immovable stance on moving out of the room keep with that roommate for three semesters and from full-on confronting him about what he did that bugged the hell out of me. By the same token though, he never budged on moving out of the room and never confronted me on what I did that bugged him as well.
For your situation, if your still taking advice at this point, I’d say hammer him about getting the crap done that he said he would. If there hasn’t been a significant dent in the mess within a day, I think you should go back to the RA and tell her. There’s no excuse for not starting laundry quickly or taking a shower. If she can’t influence him to immediately start keeping his promises, then go to the housing office and get started on a room transfer.
Be adamant about demanding a room change for either yourself or your roommate. I don’t know about your school, but residence life at my college believed in this unrealistically optimistic ideal that two people at each others’ throats could become functional roommates through mediations, confrontations, and discussions. In short, two roommates who hate each other intensely were forced to stay together while the residence life professionals tried every way they could think of get them to get along and share the room together. Just a warning that that could happen.
Damn, forgot a fairly important part to my last paragraph above. That resistance on the department’s part to allowing room changes was only for the mid-semester room change requests. At the end of each semester, the students were allowed to transfer rooms and didn’t have to go through all the hoops and tightropes. Since it sounds like you’re going to ask for a mid-semester transfer, that’s why I offered that bit of advice and warning.
He’s a filthy, disgusting pig, he’s a liar, and he has no respect for other people. I’d say there is a high probably he might also be a thief; has anything gone missing?
The only solution is you or him moving. Either that you you just start throwing his shit in the garbage.
This may be a hopeless idea, but is there any chance that this guy has a buddy who also lives in the dorms? Maybe that person has a roommate, one whom you could deal with, and you could convince the friend to swap rooms with you. Might work out great for everyone. What about the guy who was given the room combination?
If nothing else, your bad situation has led to great comedy. Scott Evil’s comment had me laughing out loud until my sides hurt. What you should do is get a video camera and make a student short about a guy dealing with the slob college roommate from hell. Maybe take a mock-umentary approach. Get it shown all around campus. Have a private screening in the dorm. Embarrass him.Then turn it into a screenplay, pitch it to the Farrelly Brothers, and make a mint out of his shitty boxers.
I would prefer to be the one moved, I think. I’ve had the unfortunate experience to have a boss who seemed to think deodorant was for underlings. Even after he left, his old office reeked for months. In an office building where the windows don’t open, it’s almost impossible to get rid of a noxious smell.
StG
Get him out and good luck! What a pig!! You don’t need that shit at all when you’re there to get an education (unlike Mr. Piggie). I hope he gets the boot, BIGTIME, up his arse!
Well I ended up flipping out on him…
Saturday, the day after the meeting with my RA I was brought out of my sleep to a bunch of anime cartoons playing ON MY TV, less than 12 hours after he promised to never touch any of my shit again.
I told him to turn it off and I went back to bed for another hour.
When I woke up he wasn’t around. I found out later he went out to the mall to watch a couple movies (he went out for the entire day sunday as well).
His stuff still hadn’t moved (including shower stuff), and there was (and still is) a TV sitting facedown in the middle of my room, to be moved when he eventually walks to the school store and gets the cable.
My RA was having a tough time finding the RD this weekend, so it took until today for her to get ahold of him. He said my roommate would have to sign a written contract saying he’d agree to a bunch of things (including cleaning).
So I find out that I’m stuck with this guy who showers every several days, has an attitude that disturbs my girlfriend to the point where she will not stay in the room if he is there (him talking openly about voyeur porn and those websites in my history files didn’t help), and he hasn’t done shit.
He said he’d take care of the room, he picked up three pairs of pants and put them in a bag, then tossed it under his desk.
He didn’t do any of the things he said he would do, including getting the door combo changed when the offices reopened today (so now its an extra 4 days minimum that several people I don’t know have the combo to my room).
He was playing magic cards in the study lounge across the hall.
I walked in and went through the entire list:
The porn on my computer, the using my TV, the used q-tips around the room, the facedown TV in the middle of the room, the smell I’ve had to wake up to at 3 am gagging to (which he still blames on me!), how he makes my girlfriend feel uncomfortable by talking about voyeur porn, not cleaning the room, not getting the combo changed, the streaked boxers, and how he broke the promise to me when he came into the room that he’d keep his side at least from being a disaster.
Just f*cking flipped on him.
Don’t know what’ll happen now, I’ll probably get moved.
A similiar thing happened to my friend last year in residence. Ultimately, he freaked out on the guy, went to the RA, told her that he could not stand being his roommate, and within the week he was moved to another room on another floor. Oh, it can’t hurt to throw in that “this situation is causing my marks to go down, since all of this has been very distracting.” Good luck with it.
Put on two pairs of yellow kitchen gloves (jk, one pair should be enough) and get one of those large mesh laundry bags. Put all of his stinky dirty clothes in the mesh laundry bag and put it out in the hall. I wouldn’t throw anything away because then he’d have ammunition against you. Clean and deodorize as best you can, and tell him that his stink won’t be permitted to re-enter your room and if he wants his clothes, he must wash them. If his clothes actually are the source of the funk, then removing them should prove to him that you don’t have a hidden funk-aroma-maker under your bed.
Good luck.
I really like living alone.
clay… transfer to McGill. Their newest residence is a former hotel they bought, on the corner of Prince-Arthur and Parc. And living here, you could eat all the poutine you want. 
What RickJay said. Inventory all of your stuff. If so much as a sock is missing, document it and make sure the residence staff knows about it.
Actually, it’s a good idea to take a written inventory at the beginning of the year, when you first move in. That way you have a complete record of everything you brought in case something goes missing.
Robin
clay!
I feel for you man! I moved in with one of my best friends from high school thinking it would be all great and fun. Well… who knew she smelled? I had never noticed it before in high school, but I living with someone is much different. It was really hard to deal with because of the fact that we WERE friends. Our whole gang noticed the problem, but none of us were sure what to do. I can’t hurt anyone’s feelings.
Eventually I moved out into a bigger place with a new roommate. It wasn’t that difficult to do just because our place was pretty small and the other dorm room was a 4 person suite w/ only 2 people. Who can be upset with someone for that? We are still friends and I never had to mention the stench. Thank heavens.
I think she just had a weird smell…and that combined with poor cleaning habits isn’t a good combo. Her car, future apartments, everything always smelled like that. I have an extremely sensitive sense of smell, so I just couldn’t deal with it.
Good luck with everything!
It’s probably easier for you to move out than for the dorm to move him out.
It’s definitely easier for you to move out than for him to change.
Regards,
Shodan
Hey Clay, my sympathies, jeez that sound like it really sucks. 
Just an idea: how about making a compplaint to the local government agency that regulates health / hygiene codes, like public health, building inspectors, or the city, or something like that. If you can demonstrate that you have complained to the landlord, wiuth no results, maybe they can compel the University to act.
In anycase, the embarassment of having external agencies involved usually gets things moving regardless of jurisdiction issues…
Good luck.
Wow, thread from the dead.
Now I want to know what happened! Clay, did you move?