chris in providence brings us this show-stopper from the computer science department at brown university. my head is still spinning a little bit.

meanwhile, in lake forest, california…

related: the nerd’s guide to passive-aggressive behavior

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brett in raleigh, north carolina had to move out at the end of last semester after his lease ran out, and while he didn’t want to have to resort to a finding a random craigslist roommate, that ended up being the case.
brett’s mea culpa: “being a grad student, i am not home much and have [...]

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nathan in norman, oklahoma doesn’t know the writers of either of these notes, but when he saw this exchange on a fellow student’s drafting board in his architecture studio class, he knew it needed to be documented.

related: who’s the smartass?

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danielle in tampa, florida found this note in the hallway of her apartment building. writes danielle: “i don’t know what the official story is, but I can assume that it is the same as every other ‘my roommate is a slob’ story. (oh college!) i’m a little confused about why this girl thought that leaving [...]

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carmen in washington, d.c. says she and her roommates suffered for months at the hands of this “crazy, obsessive-compulsive who made our lives miserable.” by the end of the fall semester, carmen says, the house was a near-war zone, and the girl finally moved out. “around the time she was packing up her things, we [...]

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ah, college. you’d think living in an all-girls dorm might solve problems like this…

but then you get…this. explains hannah in pullman, washington: “i live in an all-girls dorm, and guys aren’t allowed to use the bathrooms in the hall. the rule is they are supposed to be escorted out into the lobby…which is a apparently [...]

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caroline sends this delightful trio of holier-than-thou notes from “a rather famous university in scotland where many students and staff have illusions of grandeur.”
the first  note was spotted, caroline says, while exiting a building “where many people work late and lights are almost always burning to help us find our way through the maze of [...]

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our anonymous submitter — a college student in michigan — “borrowed” this note under the pretense of reading it to empathize with the recipient. “while the note itself is straight up aggressive,” she says, “i do know that it has followed months of passive-aggressiveness.” and most of these complaints, she says, are totally legit. “i’ve [...]

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kim in canberra says this a3-sized missive was posted in numerous locations on all four floors of her building. of this numbered list, i’d say #3 is what puts it over the top.
on a related note:  did you know the word “avocado” comes from the aztec word for testicle? (thanks, wikipedia!)

 
related: who moved my cheese?
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our anonymous submitter lives in a university flat in the u.k. with four other guys. “three of us (myself, an american, and a brit) always take out the garbage and recycling when it’s our turn, but the two other international students seem to think it’s somehow beneath them. there must have been some unpleasantness while [...]

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rachel spotted this on a frat house fridge in champaign, illinois, adding: “said fridge was indeed revolting.”

meanwhile, helen swiped this from an equally revolting frat house in vancouver. adds helen: “the reason why it is so ripped up is because a frat boy saw me steal the note and we fought for it for a [...]

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our anonymous university student in cambridge, england found this note pinned to the door of his shared college house. “the guy who wrote it moved here from america about five weeks ago and is about eight years older than the rest of us in the house. he seems to be a nice guy, but has [...]

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this note — spotted by erik in a breakroom at northwestern’s medill school of journalism — takes me back to my days as a bright-eyed young reporter cheerfully slaving away at my college daily, where the grizzled old alumni “mentors” working at the times or the globe always seemed to have the same advice: that [...]

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this note appeared on the whiteboard in whitney’s dorm room the day after she got in a fight with her roommate, ashley, and accused her of using her friends. the note was written by ashley’s cousin, angela, and while addressed to “ash,” seems more directed at the room’s other resident.

related: facebook, a place for frenemies

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writes tim in berkeley: “although this note is over 17 years old, i think it’s still worth submitting, at the very least as an example of notes from a bygone era. i received this note from the apartment manager when i was a senior at rice university, living  in an off-campus apartment. admittedly, i wasn’t [...]

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this is why the “seething and waiting” strategy will never get through to a messy roommate. (they are oblivious to your blind rage!)
to wit: laura lives in a four-person suite at boston college, where she says one of her suitemates, christin, is “a notorious neat freak.” what that meant was that christin and her roommate, [...]

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you decide: which masterpiece is most worthy of the lisa frank award for the most artistic expression of repressed rage?
is it exhibit a, from a hip-hop retail store in california?

exhibit b, from an american college dorm?

or exhibit c, from a shared apartment in guelph, ontario?

oh, and ladies? as you busy yourself with your construction paper [...]

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two target customers for lisa frank’s new line of movie tie-in stickers — coming soon to the hot topic/urban outfitters near you!

(above, from colorado. below, from california.)

related: do not kiss on someone else’s kiss
extra credit: the legend of casey™ and caymus™

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when you live with six art students (like kate in london),  you might find that life imitates art more often than you’d like.

related: oxford drama

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kait’s roommate in providence was already pissed that the animal house next door was throwing a party on a tuesday night before a big exam, but it was the shitty pop-rock that really pushed her over the edge. and like so many other college-aged females, “over the edge” means…colored markers.

adds kait: “it didn’t stop the [...]

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