
I was placed into a fairly old dorm building that was built around the mid 60’s-70’s it was the oldest building that hadnt been renovated yet on campus and it was only about 4 stories tall. I was on the second floor that was only guys (the floors were men, women, men, women going up) and i had a roommate who was a year younger than me for whatever reason, we’ll call him Dan.
Dan was fairly odd but he seemed alright at first. He wanted to go to college so that he could get a higher education and be the first in his family to get a degree. He didnt have a dad and his mom was a single mother alcoholic. He worked at the gas station across from the campus and he was busy most of the time outside of the unit. He had a girlfriend who was still in highschool, which weirded me out but it was fine since they were both the same age.
When we hung out he was fairly relaxed but was awkward at times. I wasnt exactly too social either but I could hold a convo. But he would really try to talk with the girls from the floor above us while we were in our first month of our semester. It weirded me out that he was trying to talk to other girls despite being in a relationship but it wasnt my business.
But while this was going down he had a huge problem with being cleanly. He would leave a bunch of wrappers, dirty clothes and straight up garbage around on his side of the dorm. He would leave fucking candy wrappers in his bed and tall lamp shade that he would just sleep in. Mind you the garbage chute was a two minute walk away from our dorm.
What was the most upsetting farbage story was that when i came back from thanksgiving break was when i found garbage in my own bed, half eaten oreos all around the small dorm couch under my bunk, and a dominos pizza out of the box laying cold on my rug. I didnt even say anything and i just looked at dan expecting him to apologize as he was just confused at my blank expression.
A few days after break had ended, a girl from the floor above us asked if I was dan’s roommate. I didnt know how she knew that I was his roommate but I told her that I was and asked why she needed to know. She then asked if we could talk in her dorm above us for privacy. It turns out that dan had gotten into a massive fight with his girlfriend (he didnt even bother to ask if she could come over while I was away) and it was a soft breakup.
The fight started because Dan wanted to put a tracking app on her phone because he thought she was talking to other girls, despite him doing the same. The day after this fight happened, he immediately started to hit on the girls above our floor. With him pursuing girls to the point where it was borderline harassment. The girl that was telling me about this was one of the girls who experienced said harassment first hand.
She said and I quote, “he tried kissing me about an hour into our conversation about his relationship issues. When i backed away he looked sad and basically begged to get with him because he had so much love to give.” Just off of that alone I tried to send a complaint to my RA but they didnt do anything. From that point to the end of the next semester I basically shunned Dan anytime he was in our dorm and I would try to avoid being in the dorm unless I had to sleep.