xorbie
12-16-2004, 05:14 AM
... to want to talk about every detail of your life with your roomate/friends?
I mean, I know it's annoying as hell. But is this something a lot of people do?
I ask because I chose a different suitemate this year (we each have a single, but share a bathroom) than the roomate I had last year. Not such a great call in retrospect. I mean he's ok in small doses (why I decided to room with him in the first place)... we both like math and some dorky stuff, and we both like family guy and south park and what not. We play pool together, which is usually cool, we play poker which is fun, its all good.
The problem is that for some reason he seems to be desperate to tell other people about every minute of his damn life. For starters, he's an computer engineering major, which means I have no wtf he's talking about half the time. FPGA board? Linux kernel? Gibberish. I've made this clear in the past (not even subtle hints), yet he seems to not pick up on the fact that I don't want to hear about how his group project is going, I don't want to hear about his last ECE test, I really just don't give a shit.
And it's not just classes either. He's on the board of people that allocates student funds (more about this later, while I'm ranting), and everytime some group sends him an e-mail, I feel like I'm the first to hear about it. He tells me all about which group got money, which group got zero funded, how cool it is. EVERYTHING. WTF. And it's not like I'm special. Apparently he did this last year with his roommates. What's even scarier is that while I was off taking a final, he went down to my suitemates from last years' room, and talked to them. WTF.
And it's not like I can evade him. I'm somewhat introverted to start with, so I spend a lot of time in my room, on the internet. Plus I don't have a lot of club type activites I do, which means I'm here more often. So it's easy to track me down, and we end up eating like every meal together (which is also kinda wierd, IMO).
What's even worse is, it turns out he's a bit of an ass. I mean, I like to be arrogant sometimes, and joke about the idiots in my classes and how I benefit from the curve. But I'm not like mean about it (well, not too mean). He seems to genuinely believe everyone less intelligent than him is like retarded, and has no sympathy whatsoever. He even laughed when one of our (well, my) friends that was part of our group last year got "owned" on the discussion boards from one of our classes.
And on top of that, he's like a mild bigot, and little callous with regards to racism in general (like he's not racist as far as I can tell, but doesn't mind making black jokes). He is quite bigoted with regards to Arabs and/or muslims, and it turns out he's like a hardcore Israel supporter (he's Jewish). And because I'm Jewish, he expects me to go to Hillel, Jewish Engineering society, Israel political clubs, etc (actually he's mostly stopped asking about these, which is good).
So long story short, I'm just ranting. I also suck, because I know I'm probably not ever going to do anything about it.
I mean, I know it's annoying as hell. But is this something a lot of people do?
I ask because I chose a different suitemate this year (we each have a single, but share a bathroom) than the roomate I had last year. Not such a great call in retrospect. I mean he's ok in small doses (why I decided to room with him in the first place)... we both like math and some dorky stuff, and we both like family guy and south park and what not. We play pool together, which is usually cool, we play poker which is fun, its all good.
The problem is that for some reason he seems to be desperate to tell other people about every minute of his damn life. For starters, he's an computer engineering major, which means I have no wtf he's talking about half the time. FPGA board? Linux kernel? Gibberish. I've made this clear in the past (not even subtle hints), yet he seems to not pick up on the fact that I don't want to hear about how his group project is going, I don't want to hear about his last ECE test, I really just don't give a shit.
And it's not just classes either. He's on the board of people that allocates student funds (more about this later, while I'm ranting), and everytime some group sends him an e-mail, I feel like I'm the first to hear about it. He tells me all about which group got money, which group got zero funded, how cool it is. EVERYTHING. WTF. And it's not like I'm special. Apparently he did this last year with his roommates. What's even scarier is that while I was off taking a final, he went down to my suitemates from last years' room, and talked to them. WTF.
And it's not like I can evade him. I'm somewhat introverted to start with, so I spend a lot of time in my room, on the internet. Plus I don't have a lot of club type activites I do, which means I'm here more often. So it's easy to track me down, and we end up eating like every meal together (which is also kinda wierd, IMO).
What's even worse is, it turns out he's a bit of an ass. I mean, I like to be arrogant sometimes, and joke about the idiots in my classes and how I benefit from the curve. But I'm not like mean about it (well, not too mean). He seems to genuinely believe everyone less intelligent than him is like retarded, and has no sympathy whatsoever. He even laughed when one of our (well, my) friends that was part of our group last year got "owned" on the discussion boards from one of our classes.
And on top of that, he's like a mild bigot, and little callous with regards to racism in general (like he's not racist as far as I can tell, but doesn't mind making black jokes). He is quite bigoted with regards to Arabs and/or muslims, and it turns out he's like a hardcore Israel supporter (he's Jewish). And because I'm Jewish, he expects me to go to Hillel, Jewish Engineering society, Israel political clubs, etc (actually he's mostly stopped asking about these, which is good).
So long story short, I'm just ranting. I also suck, because I know I'm probably not ever going to do anything about it.