“So at about 5:30 in the morning there’s a knocking at the door that wakes me up. This went on for another fifteen minutes until I got up and was about to answer the door to make the person stop. But then the thought hit me that no one in the right state of mind would knock incessantly for fifteen minutes straight at five in the morning. I wake up my roommate to ask if she knows the person at the door, and she says she does. After a bit of silence, I asked her “Well are you going to get rid of them?” She texts the neighbor to shew the person off, and after some talking on the other side of the door, I hear footsteps walking away. Thinking that the person left, I went back to bed. After a few minutes I hear the sound of a key in my door. I shoot up, because my roommates inside the room and I was wondering who was breaking into my room. Like that only happens in horror films. Someone runs in, and starts shaking my roommate. I run to turn on the lights to realize a girl with no pants has broken into my room. While she requests to sleep here, we call an RA. She continues to ask to sleep here, and that she does not have to stay for long. My roommate throws a pair of pants at her, and presumably tells her to leave (they were speaking a different language). An RA comes up and apologizes for the situation. The drunk, pantless girl said she lived here so that the RA would unlock the door. After about thirty more minutes of the girl begging to sleep here, she stomps out and sits in front of our door. Once she left the room but not the area, the RAs said they’d call ECPD to remove her. After the incident, my roommate informed me that this girl had a crush on her. It was about 6:45 when I was able to go back to sleep.”-Nicole Rinaldi, VMA
“So at about four in the morning, my roommate wakes me up to notify me that our toilet is overflowing. I walk over to our paramount bathroom to see water flowing over the lid. I quickly remove my things from the floor before the entire bathroom floor is covered. I asked her what happened, and apparently she tried flushing a condom down the toilet. I called the RA on duty and glared at her while I did it. After some time had past, she tried getting it out. The RAs came in. ‘Woah, your toilet is actually overflowing. Um, we can try
“I love theatre, so coming into Emerson College as a non-theatre major was pretty scary and intimidating during the audition process. I got pretty good roles in high school but I knew I was about to get a giant slap in the face. However, I had no idea what I was actually going to be getting myself into. During common auditions I got a couple of callbacks but didn’t end up actually being cast in anything. I wasn’t really upset though because there were a ton of other audition opportunities. So, when I heard about this graduate assignment that was a series of 20 minute musicals, I thought I would audition for it. Well, I did and I was cast in a very... interesting production of Big Fish. My director was a literal psychopath and forced us to rehearse for 12 hours every single weekend, while no one was allowed to miss even a single minute of rehearsal time. She was also emotionally abusive and spent most of the time forcing us to do uncomfortable, touchy warm-ups, rather than actually working on the show. The show ended up being a disaster and I try to forget it ever happened every second of my life.” -Erin, WLP
“I was in a triple in LB at the beginning of the year. My roommates were very much into recreational substances. And I’m not just talking about that green. I went back home for a weekend to watch a musical at my high school that a lot of my friend were in. And lo and behold, I turn my Snapchat on, and there they are doing lines of something off of my desk. That’s about when I decided that I needed to move out. I switched to another room while they were on a weekend trip in New York. When they got back, all of my stuff was just gone from the room, like I never existed.” Anonymous, VMA
“It was around midnight. My roommate was already asleep. I went to take a shower, but accidently shut the door to my room behind me, locking me out with both sets of keys in the room. At first, I gently knocked on the door hoping to wake up my roommate so she’d let me back it. When that didn’t work, I pounded on it so hard I thought I was going to get yelled at by an RA for disrupting quiet hours. One of my suitemates went into her room and pounded on the wall that was next to her bed, hoping to wake up my roommate that way. Another suitemate turned the alarm clock up on her phone and shoved it under the door. Nothing worked. After fifteen minutes, I finally caved and called an RA to open the door for me. I had to check to make sure my roommate was still breathing. The next morning, she woke up completely unaware of anything that had happened. Annaliese, VMA
“I was about to put my phone away and go to bed when the fire alarm started to go off. I made my way outside with everyone else at 1:30 in the morning in shorts, a short sleeved t-shirt, flip-flops, wet hair (because I just washed it about fifteen minutes ago), and no jacket. Snapchat told me it was about 51 degrees outside. One of my friends was getting people to go with him and our other friends to 7-Eleven and I decided to go with them because what else was I going to do around 1:30 in the morning outside of LB? As we were leaving 7-Eleven I got cat-called by some guy that was by the door. One of my friends said that they overheard him make a remark on our way in as well, but I didn’t hear it.”- Lexi, WLP
“I think it was the first day of first semester… I was taking a Spanish class at BU and I had to take the T to get there, and I am not from Boston so I had no idea at the time how the T works. So I was supposed to take the B train… but I got on the E train because I thought it said B… I ended up getting off somewhere else because I was not going in the right direction at all and I got very lost... and so I tried to call a taxi and I was waiting and waiting but a taxi never came… Then all of a sudden this bus from BU showed up and I was just like ‘oh, good BU must be somewhere around here.’… The driver eventually took me to where I wanted to go but I was actually really far away from where my class was… and I ended up being a little bit late to class which was a little bit embarrassing, but I was okay.”- Anonymous Journalism
“It was around 11pm on a Friday night, and because I am not a social butterfly, I decided to stay in and watch The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 with my roommate. We were both sitting on the couch when the DVD suddenly ejected from the TV, and the screen went black. It was totally freaky because there’s rumors that our building was haunted, being 100 years old this year. My roommate joked with this idea, and called out, “Hello? Is anyone there?” And right after she said that, a pot fell in the kitchen and the DVD went back in and immediately started playing. Totally spooked, we finished the movie and I called my boyfriend from my bedroom. I turned the lights off for bed and got distracted by his voice, until suddenly, my lamp across the room turned on. I sat up in bed, frozen, and texted my roommates for help...to which they replied, “you’re screwed” and “better be nice to the ghost!” Bottom line, I did not sleep that night and roommates are no help.” - Hannah Lemke, Journalism
“So, a few friends and I went to Puerto Rico for Spring Break, and we stayed at an Airbnb. A few nights in we had a little too much fun, and vomit may or may not have been involved. Drinking is legal at 18 there, so let’s establish that our fun was in fact, legal. The next morning my friend was very hungover, and threw up at least three times in the toilet. She flushed the toilet, but the water began to rise, rather than flush. So she walks out of the bathroom and informs us of the toilet situation. We spent the entire morning trying to unclog the vomit-filled toilet, with no success, and many near-overflowing moments. After literal hours of desperate attempts and dramatic phone calls to our mothers, we decide to text our host to solve the issue. Now, Roberto was a good dude, but we seriously texted him way too often because of how stupid we were. We truly could not do anything right, so naturally, we did not want to bother him any more than we already had, but it became necessary. So Roberto replies hours later saying that he hired a plumber to come sometime within the next two days. So, since we couldn’t use our toilet, we had to go all the way to the lobby in order to go to the bathroom from the 20th floor. Sometimes, it wasn’t worth it to go all the way down to the lobby so some of us peed in the shower. We think Roberto may have been getting back at us for being annoying and needy.” -Anonymous, Journalism
“I was super excited to live in a suite of girls. I have no siblings so it was amazing to think that I would be getting five new sisters. Naturally, when we warmed up to each other, I decided to partake in sisterly-activities: like borrowing clothes. My suitemates and I were all swapping dresses for a formal event, and I was trying one on in my roommate’s bedroom while the other girls went to and fro bringing, taking, and swapping dresses. I had just taken off my clothes when I looked up to find not one of my roommates standing in the doorway, but a boy from down the hall. I screamed, he stared, and our friendship was ruined. Lesson learned: take out the doorstop when you’re trying on clothes.” - Anonymous, Journalism
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First Year Horror Stories
getting you a mop and calling maintenance,’ they said. After a few minutes the RAs came back. ‘So we don’t have a mop, but we got you guys a shit ton of paper towels until maintenance arrives,’ they consoled until they walked away. After throwing paper towels in the puddle spilling into the hallway, maintenance arrived ten minutes later to clean most of the water up.” - Anonymous, VMA
So lets establish that our fun was in fact, legal
and texted my roommates for help...to which they replied, “you’re screwed”
There they are, doing lines of something off of my desk
A girl with no pants has broken into my room