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aposiopetic
2007-09-02 01:45 am UTC (link)

Fun (kinda long) story time :D

Backstory: Before my freshman year of college I got a letter that said, "Autumn, you will be living with Olga and Carolyn in Gordon 212," more or less. "Well, shit," the three of us thought, "that's going to be crowded." Before we got to school we decided that Olga would have the bottom bunk, Carolyn would have the top, and I'd have the lofted bed. When I arrived at school, however, I found out that Gordon 212 is a truly odd creature, and one of a small handful of two-room (natural) triples on campus. There was one bed and two desks in the room that had the hallway door and a room with bunk beds, one desk, and the closets leading off of the hallway room. I was the second person to arrive and hungrily eying the semi-single (as I am an only child and have always had my own room). Olga thought that I should have it, since there was no lofted bed.

So yay :D I sort of have my own room, Carolyn has the top bunk that she wanted, and Olga's on the bottom bunk. Keep in mind that these are all pretty teeny beds for college girls, especially college girls that have sleepovers.

At some point during the school year, I'm woken up by the connecting door semi-slamming, and I see Carolyn with a pillow and a blanket make a little nest on my floor. I turn over and make a mental note to wake her up in the morning, as we've got class at the same time. Then Olga comes in and whisper-pleads with Carolyn to just come back to bed. Carolyn then proceeds to hiss back, "No. I don't want to hear you two fucking."

Because Olga and her boyfriend had been getting it on in the lower bunk, and the shaking had woken Carolyn up.

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	influencethis 2007-09-02 05:49 am UTC (link)
	Oooooh, I had the same thing happen to me. Except my roommate had the top bunk. And she was drunk and loud. And she's a loud moaner at the soberest of times (I found out). And she woke me up by her banging on the wall. And I was a very sheltered virgin. Such fun times, freshman year. Oh such fun. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

aposiopetic
2007-09-02 06:09 am UTC (link)

I swear, Olga and her boyfriend provided much hilarity. *L* I can't get mad at Olga, because she was oh so earnestly proud of me, when I first had sex. And I couldn't get mad at her boyfriend (then) because he was black and Egyptian and the hottest thing I had ever seen. And I may or may not have gotten to see his peen. Umm.

Oh god! And that just reminded me of another funny Olga/Carolyn ~~OTP~~ story. We all went to school at Brandeis, which is a twenty minute train ride from Porter Square, so we were just west of Boston. Carolyn had grown up in Mattapan, which is on the south east side (I think). So pretty far from her house, but really close by college standards. During her senior year of highschool, this young (23 I think, maybe 24) physics teacher had started at her school. Carolyn had had a crush on him, he might have liked her, but she was in school then, so that was a big no-no. She still talked to him though, and she went to visit with him. And fooled around a little, because I guess he had liked her too. So she comes home and tells the two of us all about it. She then goes out to see him again and comes home again. In the interim, Olga had gone off somewhere, but left a large note written in Sharpie taped to the door to their room:

CAROLYN YOU BIG SLUT, HOW WAS PHYSICS?

It was hi-larious, let me tell you. Carolyn comes in, closes the hallway door, sees the note, and proceeds to slide down the wall. I died laughing. Incidentally, Carolyn also had the same response when she walked in on Olga and her friend watching gay porn.

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	meammouse 2007-09-02 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	Oh lawl, Brandeis. I thought "natural triple in Gordon" sounded familiar. I got me a double in Cable. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aposiopetic 2007-09-02 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	Gordon 2, represent. We survived the fire...twice. I was in the one furthest away from that lounge. But holyshit, I've never run across someone from Brandeis on JF before. What year are/were you? I'm class of '06. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aposiopetic 2007-09-02 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	facepalm I mean what year are you. Since you have a double in Cable and all. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	meammouse 2007-09-02 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, me neither. I actually just got here; I'm class of '11. My newbie self has never heard of the fire in Gordon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

aposiopetic
2007-09-02 09:58 pm UTC (link)

It wasn't a big one like the one that (I think) went down last year in Ziv. There was one time where someone (I think one of the not-freshman in one of the singles) found a spider on her towel and promptly chucked the towel in the hallway. They left it there for a bit and someone set it on fire and there was another time where someone set some of the hall posters on fire. Neither of them were big things, but we just liked the way that "Gordon 2, we survived the fire" sounded cool *L*

But aww, freshman ♥ It's funny, on Thursday at work I realized that Brandeis classes had started. Do they still have USEMs and all that junk? I had mine with Koloski-Ostrow, who is a riot and a half (and more than slightly batshit crazy) and it was "Greeks bearing gifts into the future."

If you're standing in Gordon, is Cable the one on the left that's perpendicular? My best friend freshman year lived on the first floor there, in the corner by whatever that is that's parallel to Gordon. I used to hang out down there all the time when I was doing laundry *L* I even ended up being his roomie's Shabbas Goy once or twice.

And random piece of unsolicited advice: While I never ate at Sherman past the early part of sophomore year (points = ♥), you should definitely make a hot waffle sundae and split it with your roomie.

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	meammouse 2007-09-05 04:06 am UTC (link)
	Hahaha. We'll more likely than not have a fire at some point in time. We still have USEMs, but now we also are required to take a UWS. "Greeks bearing gifts" was all filled up by the time I got to it, unforch, but they're all neat classes. Thanks for the waffle advice. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ruffwriter 2007-09-04 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Welcome to Brandeis! I'm pretty close to you, actually. I'm typing this from my castle triple as we speak. How're you liking it so far? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	meammouse 2007-09-05 04:03 am UTC (link)
	I feel silly saying this in f_w, but I'm really ridiculously happy here. :D Bizzare question... you in the comic book club? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ruffwriter 2007-09-07 12:11 am UTC (link)
	Aww, I'm so glad! :D I really love it here, too. Brandeis is my second home; it's so cozy. I'm in the comic book club, but my attendance is quite haphazard. I wasn't at Tuesday's meeting, for example... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ruffwriter 2007-09-04 05:45 am UTC (link)
	... HI, FELLOW BRANDEIS STUDENT. Sophomore living in the castle with two roommates (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

aposiopetic
2007-09-04 05:59 am UTC (link)

!!! I love this, Brandeis bonding over the sexcapades of room mates.

Are you in one of the real triples with a sink? I had a friend who was living in one first semester our sophomore year, but then they all got shuffled down to Ziv when The Powers That Be decided that they wanted to a) start a midyear class and b) cram them into sophomore housing (otherwise I would have had a sweet dingle all the way at the end of Pom 5).

Is it hella hella loud in the castle now? I went up there in like, June or so to visit my old boss (in the slide library, down by the museum and the theater) and saw them excavating out the back chunk of the whole science complex. My first thought was that that construction's going to suck for people in the Castle and possibly all the way to East. My second thought was that the drawings look way too much like ~~Revenge of the Shapiros Part Nine: This Time It's Fucking Hideous~~ the campus center and one of those buildings is more than enough.

I always thought that it was kind of neat that I could see a castle from my chem lab ♥

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ruffwriter
2007-09-04 06:15 am UTC (link)

As soon as I read your story, I was like, "That happened to at least three of my friends in their freshman year..." (Although most of my friends were in forced triples.) Then I realized you were at Brandeis, and freaked out. XD

Our triple lacks a sink, but we have a trapdoor in the floor leading to a service tunnel. I'm dead serious. We sent one of my roommates down in her chem lab protective gear, and we can't yet see the end. (Dingle in Pom? Oh man, that would rock. I enjoyed my Massell dingle enough - my roommate up and told me one night that I was too messy and she was leaving. It was all very WHAT.)

Thankfully, I haven't heard the science complex construction at all. I haven't even seen them doing as much as they were last semester, although I can't use the path behind the science buildings to get to the castle anymore. And yeaaaah... if we get another Green Monster up in here, I'm going to seriously wonder about these Shapiros. Taking over Brandeis with awful designs? Perhaps.

I'm loving living here in the castle thus far... although I sort of broke the microwave in the common room earlier tonight. I'm going to tell my CA that it was like that already. *whistles*

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	amyheartssiroc 2007-09-02 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Why would you do that? D= I mean, have sex if you want, whatever, I'm not a prude; but having sex in a room with other people? Really uncool. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	exdee 2007-09-04 12:52 am UTC (link)
	lol. During the summer before my freshman year, my roommate and I had agreed that I would have the bottom and she would have the top. The first night in the room she came back at night and crawled into bed with me. I just kind of scooted to the other side and we never talked about it. I figured she was drunk, I just hadn't been expecting that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vigilanterodent 2007-09-04 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, roomie sex. My sophomore year roommate was pleasant in all respects except for her *(&%$! boyfriend, and utter lack of consideration re: vexing sexing. On one memorable occasion I ended up sleeping in the library to avoid going back and uncomfortably listening to them THREE FEET AWAY making long pork sammiches together. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lysana
2007-09-06 12:11 am UTC (link)

There are reasons I violated dorm policy by bunking with my fiance for the one semester we were in the same dorm. One is he had the room to himself and only shared a bathroom with someone who violated policy almost as often as he did, thus managing a tacit gentleman's agreement on the situation. Two is that the first night I slept in my own dorm room, my roomie came home at 2 AM from her swing-shift job with boyfriend in tow and hit the lights, thinking I hadn't checked in yet. Never mind how she was the RA and should've known when the incoming mid-term students were due. Throw in her having the BF stay over more than once, and we formed a tacit ladies' agreement. I won't say how that wound up, though. Some things are too wanktastic, even with 20 years of distance between me and the sitch.

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baskinglizard
2007-09-24 07:47 pm UTC (link)

Oh LOL at long pork sammiches! :D

One of my friends in uni had an apartment with thinnish walls, and a loud roommate with a boyfriend. One night they had been particularly vocal, and this finally drive my friend bats so when her roomie came into the kitchen the next morning, my friend looks at her and says 'Ooh, Darren, oooh, ooh, oooh...'

They were much quieter after that. :D

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