How should I handle a roommate who parties too much?
So, your roommate's, like, drinking all the time, and getting high all the time, and is, like, hard to talk to a lot. Because the problem with the drunk and high partying roommate is that they're usually not sober enough. And unless you're partying with them, it's hard to communicate with them. And usually then, it's like, ha ha, yeah, right on. So what you need to do is wait until everybody sobers up, and hopefully you set that precedent about what makes you uncomfortable. And you can talk about issues and not have any confrontations. It'd be, like, hey, I've got an 8 AM class, and can you maybe party somewhere else? And I know you wanted to know if something was upsetting me. But wait until someone's sober. But, really, if you have that roommate who's, like, drinking himself or herself silly, or doing some crazy drugs and is totally out of control, a lot of times those roommates aren't really open to you talking to them, so that's where, again, that residential life community comes in to be very helpful. You turn to your RA, you turn to the people on campus. You let them know about this behavior, and they become the ones to communicate. Especially, if your roommate's under age, so they shouldn't even be doing this, and who knows where it's happening. It's something that's against the law. So you have every right to talk to your resident life professionals if your roommate isn't receptive to hearing what it is you have to say.
