Word on the Street: Dorm Life

With many different types of dorms on campus, residential housing options at Ohio University are anything but limited. We asked students at the Baker University Center about their best moments living on campus.
Producer/Editor: Caleigh Bourgeois, broadcast journalism major. Videographer: Mike Zorbas, video production major.

[@Davett53]

Class of 1976. I was bummed at first, since I had never roomed with another person. At my family home I always had my own bedroom. My first room mate was a real dick,....he told me on day one, he was already a drunk,....and he looking forward to getting smashed every night, and he told me he drank most nights until he passed out. In addition he told me he liked to keep a trash can next to his pillow so he could puke at will. He did exactly that,...was drunk every day and night, and I had to sleep less the 5 feet from his bedside, vomit bucket. It was so gross and it stunk up the whole room. After just a couple of weeks, I begged for a room change,....but there weren't any extra rooms. If someone dropped out, I was first on the list, to transfer. The guys I became friends with on my floor, offered to beat my room-mate up, & shun him, in hopes of driving him to drop out.
Luckily some fellows on another floor, dropped out, and I was given a double occupancy dorm room. It was huge, larger then my childhood bedroom. Eventually that drunken asshole fellow, flunked out. I never saw him again. One of my new dorm friends and I, felt we were compatible enough to become room-mates. We roomed together in our sophomore year. We could move to outside housing, for our junior and senior years. Besides that stinky room-mate, I liked dorm living. I met a lot of people from all over the country, and even some foreign people. I had a regular group of guys who became my core, group of friends. We remained connected after college, for many years.

[@paulbaker4811]

It was too cramped. I moved to an apartment building Sophomore year and was much happier.