I (22F) Can’t Really Stand My Roommates (20sF)

I’m a college student who lives with five other girls in an apartment near our campus, and I don’t know how I’ll make it through the rest of my academic semester.

I often feel like I am the punching bag for the apartment. I do most of the cleaning around the apartment because the other girls say they’re too busy to do it. This is despite the fact that I too have classes, a job, and several extracurricular involvements.

I share a room with one of my roommates. She arrived first to the apartment and has taken up most of the space. Her clothes and accessories are about 70% of the closet because she says she needs all the space. She also has several drawers that she had set up before I got there move in weekend. They take up the majority of our bedroom. As a result, I primarily store my belongings in several boxes underneath my bed.

I can deal with the space issues, but it’s the fact that this same roommate has people over all the time without consulting me. I have lost track of the amount of times I’ve come home to find her with friends over in our room. Sometimes they’re even sitting or laying in my bed. And when she does have people over, she has made it pretty explicit that she doesn’t want me in the room, “invading their space.“

But what I think is the worst is just the verbal teasing. I slipped on ice and injured myself pretty badly during a snow storm that hit my school recently. My roommate laughed at me and said my injury was hysterical and made her week. I’m frequently picked on for my hometown and socioeconomic status. I have a lot less money than most of my roommates, and they frequently discuss how cultured and worldly they are in comparison to me. We have a TV and streaming services, but since none of accounts are mine, I can essientally only watch whatever my roommates put on. I can really only watch what I want when no one is home.

Maybe I’m being melodramatic, but the constant ridicule day in and day out has really taken an emotional toll on me. I just want some methods to cope.

TL;DR: My roommates rarely clean, take up the majority of the space in the apartment, and generally tease me. How do I cope for the rest of the year?

Submitted February 01, 2019 at 06:58AM by preppypotato http://bit.ly/2D11S5i