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[Renegade_Turner]

That looks cosy.

[Freshbite]

It is, actually. I don't need alot of space if all I'm doing is eating, sleeping, studying/programming and gaming.

It's quite perfect as a first apartment for those specific purposes.

[Renegade_Turner]

Do you know your roommates? Good point, I could operate in one room as long as it had my computer, my bed, a table, a microwave and a fridge.

[Freshbite]

Well, they are not technically my roommates. However, they do live in the same "section", and we all share a bigger kitchen and something similiar to a living room, including 2 couches and a TV.

Most of them tend to just stick to themselves, but I've gotten to know some just from meeting outside in the hallways. They all seem to be nice people, but I think the major part has their social network in other places, regardless of how real it is.


Oh, I just want to point out that I do indeed have a bathroom and a small kitchen.
I just kind of missed it in the other pictures.



Taken 12 minutes ago, night-time. Different lighting.

[Renegade_Turner]

Oh yeah, I didn't mean 7 people hunched together in your bed. I assume it's student accomodation? Most of those have the same set-up. A common room, i.e. a kitchen and living room and whatnot, and then segregated rooms for each person. Sometimes there may be a common bathroom that everyone has to share and sometimes there's ensuite bathrooms. My girlfriend luckily last year had a private room with an ensuite bathroom, saves a lot of hassle.

I still go to college from home. Free dinner.

[Freshbite]

Yeah, I have the all inclusive shower-bathroom aswell. It's a real privilege.

To still be able to live with your parents sounds great, I am not nearly that close to home...

[Renegade_Turner]

Ouch. That's a long way away. That's about the width of Ireland. lol

[Freshbite]

Yeah, it's kind of a pain to not be able to get around with a car anymore.
I haven't got my own license yet either, so basicly I have to travel by bike.
It's good in its own way, but it takes alot of time.

Living elsewhere from home has its benefits, too. I wont have to argue with my little brother anymore. Well, for the time that I'm gone, that is.

Man, he was a real pain...

[Assaultman67]

Most of them tend to just stick to themselves, but I've gotten to know some just from meeting outside in the hallways. They all seem to be nice people, but I think the major part has their social network in other places, regardless of how real it is.

Dorms are much different from apartments ...

When I lived in the dorms people would keep their door open and you could just walk in and talk to them. In general, you pretty much know everyone on the entire floor by the end of the semester.

There used to be these huge spontaneous Halo 2 games in which everyone would use their Xbox 360, or go split screen with another person and play Halo around 3pm occasionally running out the door and screaming down the hallways at each other every time someone got a "bullshit kill" over someone else.

Coed dorms are especially cool ...

Apartments however is a much more introverted environment, I lived right next door to a guy that was around my age and going to the same college as me for two years and never spoke to him.

[Freshbite]

That does sound like alot of fun.

I think the problem for me is that I still have a very active companionship with the friends I still have in Stockholm (through Skype, that is). At the moment we are playing alot of League of Legends and I don't want to trade that away.

I think it might be a similiar case with alot of the people that live here.

[Renegade_Turner]

I wish I had geek friends to play my online games with...my friends are mainly the non-geek type, and the ones that are generally own PS3's. lol

[Freshbite]

What online games is it that you're playing?

[Renegade_Turner]

Shit man, Monday Night Combat, Bad Company 2, Modern Warfare 2, Fifa 10 when it worked, bit of GTAIV and Red Dead Redemption very occasionally but the auto-aim in multiplayer pisses me off a lot.

[Assaultman67]

I wish I had geek friends to play my online games with...my friends are mainly the non-geek type, and the ones that are generally own PS3's. lol

They're all busy playing on their PC's in basements and other NEET dwellings ...

And occasionally when you do befriend one, you often spend more time avoiding them than you do talking to them ...

I was talking techno-babble with some guy in my chemistry class freshman that was also on my floor about building PC's, specifically water cooled video cards. Anyway, I think I gave him the impression that I was a good friend or maybe he was gay and thought I was hitting on him ... I dunno ...

Anywho, this guy was the kind of nerd that talks too much and says very annoying or dorky things in a monotone voice and he started hanging around me all the time ... he would walk with me to class, he would walk back. he would keep his door open to see when I was going to lunch/dinner/breakfast (we went to dining halls for meals) and then he'd run out quick and join me (he didn't really ask if he could come). I started taking less direct routes to classes and to lunch so he wouldn't spot me and follow me.

And on top of all that, every time you slightly displeased him by saying something like "Oh, i have to go" or "I can't do that now" its like he would reveal a bit of some kind of hidden attitude that was as if he was actually really depressed (or extremely angry at the world). This creepiness was amplified by the fact that he looked like Charles Whitman with black boxed glasses sorta like these.

In a nut shell he was the kind of guy I thought was on the brink of commiting suicide or going on a shooting spree.

Then when my freshman year was over and I got room assignments for next year ... I found that he had requested me as a roommate (And of course the housing dept. doesn't think twice about making it come true, sending me a roommate confirmation notice). Needless to say that was the last straw, I immediately went and requested a different roommate (any roommate ... I literally requested for any other random roommate on any floor) and they granted my request. I then lied to him to the reason i requested a new roommate. I said that I was a really messy person and he was a tidy person so it wouldn't work out. He was displeased, and that is verified by the fact that even though i see him often on campus, he doesn't talk to me, he doesn't wave to me, he just looks at me like "You're on my list." as he walks by. He's done this now for 3 years. Needless to say I try to avoid eye contact around him and pretend to not notice he's there.

However, most of them are just the stereotypical fashion and socially awkward person ... some are even tolerable or partially cool ... not borderline psychopathic.

[Precastwig]

Haha,
Maybe he just REALLY liked you, i mean like REALLY

Just out of curiosity,
what was his name?