In retrospect, a lot of guys on my floor where quite misogynistic. Plus they liked to sit around and brag about their sexual exploits. I think the fact that I didn't join in those discussions (plus I wasn't dating or sleeping with anyone) was why they tagged me as gay.

So did any of your dorms have a "club" where people would pull fire alarms in the middle of the night?

During my sophomore year, we had a real fire in the dorm. It apparently started in the generator room, around 8:00 on a Sunday morning. For some reason, the alarms didn't work, so nobody knew until the RA ran by, pounding on the doors.

After that, I took alarms very seriously. Even at the dorm where the alarms went off in the middle of the night about every other week.

Sorry you had such a rough freshman year tommy.

I don't have any bad roommate stories, but a friend of mine in college had an interesting roommate story. Her roommate kept having sex with her boyfriend while my friend was in the room. Her boyfriend was Andrew Koppel, Ted Koppel's son, who was at my University for a year or two before transferring/getting kicked out. Anyhow, apparently a popular refrain during sex was "Who can make you come?", asked by Andrew followed by, "You can, you can" by my friends roommate. This led to the making of a song derived from "The Candyman Can" song by my friends and I.

OMG Gud, TOO funny.

Demand water heaters:

One way to save a lot more energy than a demand water heater is a hot water recirculator. Uses hot water flowing out to heat water coming in. Some have storage, some don't. But the shower and washer use the most hot water anyway, so the ones without storage save almost as much as the ones with. One point about demand water heaters. They last longer than normal water heaters, so they may pay for themselves faster than energy savings alone account for.

God, tommy. I have all sorts of thoughts about this kind of people that I'd keep to myself.

I'm a freshwoman, but I rent a place with 2 roommates. After 3 years of boarding school and 2 years of army, I had enough of compulsory roommates (even though I spent most of the last year of boarding school in a room of my own, when the staff was considerate enough to understand that I won't be able to study (and as one of the top students of school, raise the bar) with 2 night owls as roommates).

We so need to get that island of our own. I love you people, and want to wreak vengeance on anyone who's trying to make your lives harder than they already are.

The new song was "The Andyman Can" but I can't remember the lyrics.

Wow, tommy, I too thought I had had a bad freshman year experience. My roommate moved all my stuff to another room 9trading me for her friend) and did not tell the girl living there that I was moving in.

This dispute actually made it up the ResLife chain, but the focus was not that this girl PACKED AND MOVED ME, but that I was too nice and should try to fit in more.

I lived in a triple attached to a double my freshman (and sophomore years) in the nicest dorm on campus. My one roommate started sleeping w/ her boyfriend from home's best friend who was at Boston College (we were at BU) and basically moved in with him by the end of September. The other roommate, who was possibly the loudest speaking person I've ever known, got kicked out of the dorms for dealing drugs in like October. And I had the triple to myself for the rest of the year. I almost moved out and got an apartment sophomore year, I didn't want to live with strangers, but it was too expensive. So I ended up with two women who I lived with for the rest of college, one year in the dorm and 2 off campus. And one is my best friend to this day!

We just went out for lunch and could sit outside!!! On the water. Man, I'm going to miss working down here so much.

My freshman year roommate glued straw hats to the walls.

tommy still wins.