Dear Marquette Office of Residence Life,
On September 10, roommate Collin Kruse and I were given a new roommate with no prior notice. Knowing that we were two people in a three-person room, we were fully aware that the room could be filled at any time. While we were upset to have been given a roommate who is quite different than us with no time to prepare, the matter of the complaint isn’t about an unprofessionally handled roommate situation, but rather that said roommate (Ian Griffith) has made our experiences at Marquette somewhat miserable.
On September 10, Collin and I had breakfast in the Mashuda diner. When coming back upstairs, we were shocked to not only see our previously stored stuff thrown around the room, but to also see that we had a new roommate. Given no prior notice, Collin and I were forced to move our belongings and assist our new roommate in moving in. While talking to his parents, it seemed that Ian too was given very short notice on his move, which caused us to question the professionalism of the Marquette Office of Residence Life. This is unacceptable behavior for a reputable university, and while we did say we were aware that the space in the room could be filled, we did not expect such a situation to be handled so poorly.
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Our roommate has been a nuisance on many different instances that include but aren’t limited to:
• Leaving his belongings all over the room including on our furniture
• Not cleaning up after himself (not flushing toilet, leaving trash out,
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4.) Gary: I think if the expectation that our apartment will be a place where we can all live without worrying about someone throwing ragers that Gary could be a good roommate. I think with this expectation Gary would be able to make the apartment a place of studying for everyone. Ground rules that if he wants to be with his friends all hours of the night he can go somewhere else where his friends are.
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I nervously opened the doors to my future, hoping for the best for myself. At first, I believed departing to class would be simple, but when the bell rang for the first time I had no idea what class room goes where and how busy the halls were going to be. Suddenly, the entire world around me scrambled to class, and on occasions bumping each other along the way; it was a widespread panic for most of the freshmen. Fortunately, I found some wonderful teachers to direct me to my rooms that I will spend the next year
refused to leave when told to do so. The next day university officials took the names of
After a while, I received new information of vacant room very near from a school. When I was writing e-mail, one of my roommates backed home. He was going to pay a deposit of the room and he told me that the house has some more vacant room available. We went to see the room. There were two vacant rooms; one was on the basement another was on the first floor.