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10 Types Of People You Meet When Living In Dorms

You'll meet a bunch of people in college, but never a more interesting bunch than the one's who live in your dorm.

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10 Types Of People You Meet When Living In Dorms
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Everyone knows that moving into dorms is going to be a love/hate relationship. You could meet the love of your life, your best friend and some of the greatest people you'll ever meet. You'll also meet some not so great people. People that make you hate the dorms. See dorms, in general, aren't that bad, but you throw in a couple hundred 18 year olds that think that they have the world figured out together and you're bound to have some issues.

When you move into a dorm, it takes quite some time to adjust from having your own space at home to a room you have to share with someone who is literally six feet away and probably someone you never met before. Let alone share a whole building with strangers who "finally have their independence." College is hard, making friends is hard, and living with them is hard. Here are the 10 people that you're bound to meet in your college dorm.

1. The Rule Follower

This is the person that is pretty much doing the RA's job for them. They knock on doors and walls at 11 pm when quiet hours start, and they will not hesitate to report anything they deem as inappropriate or not following the student conduct.

2. The Party Animal

Now this person is pretty much the complete opposite of the rule breaker. They came to college to have a good time and nothing is going to get in the way of that. Not their eight am classes or their Thursday night classes. If there is a party they are down for it, and chances are they will be the life of the party as well.

3. The Pot Head

Now, similarly to the party animal the Pot Head is at college to break free from the restraints at home and live to smoke wherever they want. There is at least one in every dorm and chances are you'll know who they are because they'll try smoking in their dorm room by popping the window out. Now, they'll either get caught and put on probation while continuing to smoke, or they'll never got caught and get cockier as more time passes. Either way, this person is getting stoned and they do not care what you have to say about it.

4. The Hall Slut

Before you all go yelling at me, I mean this is no gender-stereotyping way. This person can be either and guy or a girl (or both depending on the dorm you live in) and they make their way through the dorm/hall. Not necessarily in a bad way, but this person enjoys sex and takes advantage of the amount of people, lack of adult supervision and a whole floor dedicated to their gender preferences. They came to have fun, and trust me... they're having fun.

5. The Tailgater

You don't know who this person is, but they know you. They know everyone on your hall, and they're friends with someone on your hall. They are the people who find a way into the dorm by following behind people who have the access cards. They typically mean no harm, and really just want to get in without having to call their friends (who to be honest are probably too lazy enjoying their Papa Johns Pizza they ordered with flex to go let them in). They will always say hi to you and chances are by the end of the year you'll at least know their face and to let them in if you're ever passing them by the door.

6. The Ghost


This is the person who is never, ever there. Whether it's the dorm room or just the building itself, you never see them. They are someone who you know of or probably someone you saw during move in or passing in the hall at one point, but you never see them again and you have convinced yourself that they are a figment of your imagination. But then you'll see them again at some point and from then on just start to question whether they're real or if you have just gone crazy.

7. The Home Body


This is the person that came to college to go home on the weekends. Even if they live a few hours away, they will make that commute to sleep in their own bed and get away from everything on the weekends. Now, don't mistake these people for loners or people with no life. They are usually very content with their lives and simply just like to unwind and be alone on the weekends. Honestly, if my parents didn't live in a different country this probably would have been me.

8. The Crazy


This is the person who is usually a little loco. You might not necessarily interact with them, but their lives follow them around everywhere you go and if you're lucky enough, you'll share a wall them and hear all their crazy drama that follows. From locking up boyfriends to calling their mothers b****'s. You live to hear their next phone call or their next argument with their roommate. Grab the popcorn because it's like your own live in Soap.

9. The Drama Starter


This person lives for drama. Slightly different from the crazy who tends to keep his/her craziness from the people on the hall, the drama starter likes to light a fuse, sit back and watch it explode. They could start something out of the blue or they could be dropping little pieces here and there until it finally combusts. They also typically say that they hate drama and are "so glad they aren't a part of that high school drama anymore", but the second they get a chance they will drop a drama bomb on you so fast you won't know what hit you until you're crying in your best friends dorm wondering what you did you make someone so mad.

10. The Roommate

Ahh, the roommate. You either know them or are total strangers, and you either love them or hate them. It's like a lottery. Some roommates are amazing and you totally won out, but most roommates suck. And it's not because they're bad people (at least not always) but because they like to live a certain way, you like to live another and then when two people with such different living situations come together, it's cause for trouble. Sometimes your roommate will never be there and might be the Ghost, maybe you're unlucky and got the Crazy and or Drama Starter. Whether it is one of the people on this list or someone else, you're stuck with them for a year. So grin and bear it, because lord knows you don't want to be fighting all year long.

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