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Last year at college, I had this room that was a real loser. He left school after 2 weeks because he couldn't "handle it". Anyways, provided is a facebook message he sent me explaining his reasoning behind leaving. Thought it would be funny to share this with fellow Bostonians. This kid is from Virginia.  I’m from the South Shore and we both attended George Mason University

Hey Ben,

I came in tonight and cleared out my sheets and pillows because I'm not comfortable with how much weed you have in the room and the quantity of alcohol in your fridge. I apologize for not bringing this up earlier with you in person, however when I found the alcohol in my personal (and now rather empty) fridge I decided to take steps to remove myself from the situation and worry about letting you know only after the fact.

I didn't particularly mind the weed on occasion, but getting high what appears to be every night is pushing the envelope of tolerably risky behavior. Although this takes place outside of the room, I’ve noticed that you still keep the weed in the room. Additionally, the night in which you came in at 2 in the morning to get high with an obviously inebriated friend was exceptionally irritating.

The drinking I'm fine with, I just don't like having alcohol in the room, but was alright when it was still clearly not mine and in your fridge. However, when I found a can in my fridge today, I considered that unacceptable. I put the can into your fridge because I am unwilling to have it appear as though it may be mine. I am not willing to face whatever punitive measures may come of the (admittedly unlikely) discovery of alcohol in my fridge when it does not belong to me and I did not place it there.

I will be talking to the RA tomorrow to request a roommate change, which will likely occur on the 10th or the 12th, at the same time as the other roommate changes occur so that nothing will seem out of the ordinary. I do not intend to mention the specifics of why I would like to switch roommates and would like to leave it only that we have vastly different class, sleep, and study schedules. If there is someone else with whom you'd like to room, you might be able to make that happen if you also put in a roommate change form.

I have no hard feelings about this; I'm just unwilling to live in a room with as much marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and alcohol as there currently is.

Aaron.

You know as much as I want to make fun of this kid you do kind of have to feel for him. Here he is a nice Southern Gentleman going to George Washington University and he gets stuck with a kid from the South Shore as his roommate. Who wouldn't have a nervous breakdown?