Roommates!

The first semester of college, I hung out with my roommates/suite mates all the time and I still do, the only problem is that I sense some “bad blood” and quite frankly, I am getting fed up with a few things.  I have decided to room with my friend who lives across the hall, and also with the same suite mates that I have now, and I do not know how it is going to work out.  This semester has been a very stressful semester.  All the homework assignments and the tests just seem to never stop coming and I think that everyone needs a break.  I am wondering if this is what is making the dorm life a little different this semester.  I am a pretty passive person and I tend to let a lot of things slide, and I think that I am a pretty reasonable person, but it seems I have been getting a little more vocal when expressing things to my roommates/suite mates.  This might be a cause to some of the problems, and I really do not know if rooming with them is such a good idea anymore.  I really want to get everything out in the open so everyone in my room knows where they all stand so it will be possible to continue to live peacefully.  The only problem is that I don’t really know what to do because I normally do not like to speak about topics like this.  I mean who wants to tell people there problems with each other?  I know a lot of people first semester had roommate/suitemate problems, and I was wondering what some possibilities would be.  Should I continue to let things slide, or should I start to call out people on certain undesirable things, or is there a better way to go about this whole little predicament?

Comment

I just commented on a post that EAF did which was on whether or not weed should be legalized or not. The blog title was called argument, and i basically said that i do not really have a strong point of view on the subject because i can see both sides of the picture. i think that if somebody really tried to convince me that it was good or bad, i might take a view point, but as a third party i was not really able to take a stand.

The Last House on The Left

Over the break, I saw what I thought to be a truly creative movie called “The Last House on the Left.” It was about a girl and her family going to a lake house for vacation. When the girl goes into town, she meets up with a friend and the two girls meet a young boy who is the son of a murderer family. The two girls go with the boy to smoke weed, and then the family comes back and does not know what to do with the two girls being afraid that the girls might talk to the police, so the family takes the girls to the forest, kills one of the girls, and rapes the other leaving her for dead in a lake when she tries to escape by swimming to her lake house. The family does not realize that a storm has come in stranding them in the forest. The family comes to a house where they find a nice couple who graciously take them in and let them stay in the guest home. Little does both families realize is that the family that took the family of criminals in, was the family of the daughter. The movie then becomes a series of gore and killing as the family get vengeance on the criminals. Luckily the daughter finds the strength to make it back to the lake house and she lives. I was very entertained with this movie, but after, I came to a realization. Why was I entertained? Instead I should have been sick to my stomach with all of the blood and guts that were flying around, I mean a guy dies with his hand in a dish washer disposal and a hammer in his head. Also a girl gets raped, and the main criminal’s head explodes because the father sticks him in a microwave. I mean some of this stuff is sick stuff, but it is weird how the media has made things so blown out of proportion, that this stuff becomes cool. Is there a problem with the way the media makes us think, or do we come to some sort of realization that things shown in the media are so fake, that it becomes entertaining because we know that if given the chance we would do some of the same things?

Southern Millionaires

I like to buy nice things for myself, for example; I like to buy hats, and slippers (flip-flops), but when I say I like to buy nice things, it is certainly different from a lot of students at SMU when they say that they like to buy nice things.  I understand that people like to spend money on brand name merchandise, but what I do not understand is how people at SMU can buy so much.  It would be different, if students were buying nice things with their own money, or buying in small reasonable amounts, but I can almost guarantee that most students are buying expensive over the top things, with their parent’s hard earned cash.  I do not dislike the people who have money, or people who like to shop, but I do not like the fact that people with money show it off, and just flaunt around campus with the newest toys.  To me it gives the impression arrogance.  Sometimes is feel that people think that because their parents have money, they have money as well and are better than those who may have to work for things.  Really does a college student really need a car that costs more than 70,000 dollars, or go on shopping sprees every other weekend?  I feel that some people feel that because their parents worked hard, that they deserve everything in life.  I think that some people should be a little more gracious and understand that spending money to buy things is a lot different than earning the money to buy things.  People here I think spend too much money worrying on how people will perceive them, so they spend ridiculous amounts of money to buy things so people will view them in a certain way.  I am not saying this is for everyone, but for a nice handful of students.