6. Hair Tie Method – To avoid walking in on your roommate hooking up (or vice versa), use the hair tie method. This is usually most necessary with roommates who don’t appreciate personal space, bug you every couple of minutes, or who just never leave! If you’re up to getting down, place a thick hair tie, or sock, around the door knob. There’s no way your roommate could miss this. Plus -this is great if you just need some time alone to chill and collect your thoughts.
5. Post Schedules – It’s a good idea for both of you to print out your weekly schedules and post them on the wall. Be sure that they write in any extra curricular or work hours. Your roommates schedule will then become a guide for when they will and won’t be home. This means you can map out time to do whatever you want without interruptions and a lot less surprises.
4. Set Up Roommate Agreement – If things get too rough, sometimes you have to put stuff into writing. After a couple weeks, you know what drives you crazy. Come to an agreement on how your room will be constructed, type it up, and both of you sign it. Then, when you’re roommate continues to be a jerk and problems flare up to the point that Resident Advisers have to get involved, you’re already in the clear. Once you sign off on something, it’s a contract.
3. Communicate – One of the biggest problems between people is lack of communication. Always express when something is bothering you. Most of your issues could just be misunderstandings. Bottling everything up will just make any situation ten times worse. And when a situation explodes, it EXPLODES!
