My roommate ran out of the room screaming that she was going to knife and strangle me...

My first year of college I had two problem roommates. The first one I had would "borrow" as many of my personal possessions and never return them, so I had to resort to stealing them back, if I could.

She often lost the things she "borrowed". She also would eat all of my food and let random guys sleep on my bed if I went home for the weekend.

After a semester of being ignored or insulted by her racist friends, I decided to try a new roommate.

This new roommate proved to be even worse. She had no meal plan and so she expected me to help feed her even though she had a job in the cafeteria. She also believed that as roommates, she was entitled to use anything I owned, including my computer, school suplies, backpack, clothes, dishes, feminine hygeine products, etc, which I had never granted her permission to use.

I didn't understand why she thought this because I never touched anything she owned. She also was racist like the other roommate, saying white girls were so stupid and that I was lucky that I had some hispanic and black in me to cancel that out.

Even though I am multiracial, I still took offense to her insulting my white ancestry.

Since I had moved into her room, she already had all of her things arranged the way she like. She probably took over three quarters of the room with her stuff. Even when the RA told her she had to clear out half of the dresser drawers and give me half of the closet, I had to resort to keeping my clothes in suitcases the entire time of my stay because she refused to send some of the clothes (over half she didn't even wear) home.

She was also verbally and emotionally abusive. She would bully me into loaning her and her friends money even though I told her from the beginning "I don't loan out money". She would often tell me that I was "pudgy" even though she squeezed herself into clothes two times too small. At least I wore the correct size! She tried to tell me what to do and that the new friends I had made were her friends longer and that they would abandon me if she told them too. She wouldn't even let me date a guy because he was her "best friend" and she said the "roommate and the best friend better not be kissing". He actually told me later after she moved out that she had told him I wasn't interested!

She would also never attend class and started to miss work more and more. She would watch TV or play video games until two in the morning even when I told her I had an test the next morning.

Needless to say, my grades suffered a bit while living with her. Even when I tried to get the RA involved, she refused to budge, criticizing my study habits and saying that she was not going to alter her lifestyle because I wanted to do well? I thought we were in college for the education as well as other fun things.

She also had an out-of-town boyfriend. He would often call in the middle of the night and they would always get into arguments, threatening to break up with one another. When she wanted him to visit some weekends, I tried to respect her right to see her boyfriend, but unfortunately, the weekends would turn to weeks and he never left the room...or took a shower.

He really stank! He also would eat my food, use my things, and dirty up the room without offering to help clean up. I often would try to explain to my roommate that I could only tolerate him for so long because our room wasn't built for three people and that as a normal person, I needed some privacy. I also wasn't comfortable with him alone in the room with me (she often talked about him hitting her and he often would stare at me when I was trying to change my clothes underneathe my robe).

I didn't believe that I should feel like the outsider in my own room. I also wasn't comfortable with them either locking me out of the room at random times of day to screw or waking up to them moaning and the bunk beds shaking. They even had the nerve to steal my condoms!

When I tried to address the problems, he proceeded to tell that I was being rude because she missed her boyfriend and that it didn't matter what I said or thought, nor if I got the RA involved, he could stay as long as he wanted. It wasn't until after I moved out that I found out her boyfriend wasn't allowed to spend the night because was underage and male or that our guests were only allowed to stay two nights in a row.

After several mediation attempts, I got tired and told her that she did not respect me or my property. She told me to shut up, she wasn't listening and that she was going to call her mom to complain about me. I told her that we were going to have a discussion right then and there because I didn't think she was treating me right. I told her that was she was being unreasonable and that she needed to listen to me.

After she told me I was stupid and my opinion didn't matter, I exploded, telling her she was being a bitch and told her I was leaving the room. I did, but little did I know the whole hallway had heard our whole conversation. My roommate ran out of the room screaming that she was going to knife and strangle me, but luckily, the people in the hallway stopped her. Afterwards, I met with the hall director and explained what had been happening.

Because of so many hall violations and her threatening to assault me, they moved her out of the hall. I got my own room for the rest of the semester, and because of her leaving, peace in my life was restored. I found out later from other people in the hall that they never really liked my roommate and that she had abused her previous roommate into moving out last semester.

I found out her friends liked me even more, and through the entire ordeal of that night, they stuck by me, not her. I have not had the greatest roommates, but at least I had great hallmates.