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I had a roommate.

My friend went to Towson and had the same thing but each room had 2 people...

Edit: they probably aren't locked because they had so many people lock the door into the other room, use the bathroom then leave without unlocking it. The other person goes to use their bathroom and is locked out and now your son isn't even home to unlock it.

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My college dorm showers were six shower heads in one big room for the whole hall. Nobody died or got raped. No  private toilets either.

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You are worried about the security of the dorm room? Thats rich. Wait until he gets to his first class and is brain starts to conform to the mind control machine you delivered him to.

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College Freshmen are some of the biggest degenerates around.   Coddled kids with poor judgement and life skills are suddenly left with no adult supervision.   Many are there simply because their parents forced them.   Expect the worst

In my first semester of dorm life, 90% of my classmates were drunk or high 3 days a week, every week.   The cumulative GPA after the first semester for the Freshman class was 1.0, despite a small group that earned 4.0s.    

When I told off the local drug dealing kingpin, a Junior, he had his thugs attack me.   I spent 3 months carrying a pistol and going nose-to-nose with them.   They broke through a heavy steel door and destroyed everything in my dorm room twice, including $1500 in textbooks.  

I tape-recorded some of their death threats, as well as their assault on another student, and photographed the massive bloodstains.    I told the Dean of Students I wanted out of my housing contract immediately or my evidence would go straight to the local newspaper, and that if he didn’t reign in the druggies, people were going to die. We became mortal enemies at that point, and he made damn sure my teachers screwed me whenever possible for my entire four years.

The Dean gave me back my contract.   It took three weeks to move out and in that time the Dean and his Resident Assistants searched my room several times when I was in class, but they never did find my pistol.   I’m sure the Dean was getting his drugs from this dealer.   When he got busted for dealing, the college paid for a defense attorney.

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We took my youngest son down to ODU many years ago (2005??).  We got his stuff up to his room.  One of his room mates appeared to be part zombie or something.  We came in, started putting stuff on an empty bed and that kid turned his stereo up, rolled over and buried his face in the wall.  Every time we came up to the room that's the way the kid was positioned.  Like looking at someone else caused him physical pain.  

The hallways were full of kids running back and forth, yelling, dancing, acting like kids with no one to tell them loud noise isn't good for your ears and running into people isn't polite.

We finished getting his stuff up there and said goodbye and drove home.  The next morning he was on the phone, begging us to come get him.  He said he couldn't stand it.  I asked what was wrong?

He told me that evening, once the last of the parents left, the alcohol and pot came out of hiding.  He said kids were falling down drunk in the hallways, pissing in the hallways/corners, coming into peoples rooms and throwing up, the smell of pot smoke was so strong it was burning his eyes, some kids were loudly screwing in their rooms and one couple was going at in the hallway on the floor.

He just said, "Dad, I wasn't raised like that, I can't stand being around these people.  I told him to tough it out one more night and I'd be down Monday to get him after he talked to the folks in Admin and explained why he wasn't staying and that he wanted his tuition and fees back ASAP.  Monday morning he called and said Sunday night was as bad, or worse than Saturday night and he was on his way to Admin to see about getting us reimbursed.  I went down and got him a couple hours later.

He went to school at VCU and lived at home instead.

I would really hate to send my kids to a college these days.  It can't be good.

I've always thought it would be a good thing for kids to graduate high school, go in the military for 2 or 3 years and then go to college, if they still felt the need to go to college.  At least the military has people running herd on the kids and trying to keep them out of the worst troubles kids can get into.  Or they did when I was in the Army.

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It's my son that is there not yours.

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You are doing your son a disservice.


I know pot needles are scary...

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How am I doing him a disservice?

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Sheltering him and not letting him learn things for himself. That’s a reason why some people send their children away from home for school.

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Every dorm ive been to had locks on the doors.  Fuck that open door and signed agreement bullshit.

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We took my youngest son down to ODU many years ago (2005??).  We got his stuff up to his room.  One of his room mates appeared to be part zombie or something.  We came in, started putting stuff on an empty bed and that kid turned his stereo up, rolled over and buried his face in the wall.  Every time we came up to the room that's the way the kid was positioned.  Like looking at someone else caused him physical pain.  

The hallways were full of kids running back and forth, yelling, dancing, acting like kids with no one to tell them loud noise isn't good for your ears and running into people isn't polite.

We finished getting his stuff up there and said goodbye and drove home.  The next morning he was on the phone, begging us to come get him.  He said he couldn't stand it.  I asked what was wrong?

He told me that evening, once the last of the parents left, the alcohol and pot came out of hiding.  He said kids were falling down drunk in the hallways, pissing in the hallways/corners, coming into peoples rooms and throwing up, the smell of pot smoke was so strong it was burning his eyes, some kids were loudly screwing in their rooms and one couple was going at in the hallway on the floor.


I am MOSTLY onboard with that but I am sure that you served with some complete fuckups that had zero business in the .MIL. It made it harder on everyone from boot to the fleet. I don't want EVERYONE to serve.
He just said, "Dad, I wasn't raised like that, I can't stand being around these people.  I told him to tough it out one more night and I'd be down Monday to get him after he talked to the folks in Admin and explained why he wasn't staying and that he wanted his tuition and fees back ASAP.  Monday morning he called and said Sunday night was as bad, or worse than Saturday night and he was on his way to Admin to see about getting us reimbursed.  I went down and got him a couple hours later.

He went to school at VCU and lived at home instead.

I would really hate to send my kids to a college these days.  It can't be good.

I've always thought it would be a good thing for kids to graduate high school, go in the military for 2 or 3 years and then go to college, if they still felt the need to go to college.  At least the military has people running herd on the kids and trying to keep them out of the worst troubles kids can get into.  Or they did when I was in the Army.

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When I was a freshman the most expensive things in my room were engineering textbooks.