Our thoughts are with you both, and thanks for providing some perspective for all of our college freshman who are bitching that their roommate naps too much.
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Housing haven’t yet responded and, over the weekend, Winnie shared the latest email from Ashly, aka The Ticking Time Bomb.
The e-mail includes demands mainly centered around the bed and closets. Then, the student listed her stern demands, including her choice of a bunk bed, desk and cabinet.
Chen, 17, a financial actuarial mathematics major, said she and Tun, 18, were shocked by the letter’s blunt tone as well as several open threats, such as “If needed be I’ll turn it into a bigger issue so don’t try me”, and, “I don’t like being ignored …” Will you make friends? Be a citizen journalist for FOX 11 and get paid – download the Fresco News App today.
But Winnie Chen suffered through a truly weird experience before she even arrived at college. I don’t like being ignored because that’s just rude but that’s what you both made a decision to do so I chose to make it clear now the kind of person I am and what I will and will not take.
Her other touted roommate, Guistiana, also replied, and refused to take Ashly’s rage lying down.
Moving into a new place right out of high school can cause some anxiety for incoming freshman and it doesn’t really help when the new roommate isn’t the person you expect them to be.
She makes this pretty valid point: “GIIRRRL, WE HAVEN’T EVEN MET YET.’ She also offered this olive branch: ‘Look, I’m not here to fight with you”. There should be two white closes and I’m taking one of them. I don’t care for which one it is, just know I’m taking one of them. I am getting one of the white closest, and Im getting the desk near the window. thats fair enough to ask for considering that Im giving up fighting for the bottom bunk’.
“Sorry but not sorry for the attitude.”
“.I’m not going to settle for anything less than what I’m gonna tell you that I’m gonna get once I arrive in the dorm”, she wrote, listing the top bunk, desk near the window, white closet as hers and hers only.
The roommate drama continued – both in real-life and social media – as Chen and Tun responded to the original letter with an equally blunt response of their own, outlining several things the two “don’t appreciate” about the original email including her “attitude”.
After Winnie forgot to reply, Ashly chose to follow up the brief message – and included a list of very stark demands about what she would be expecting from her future roomies.
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She did at least go on to give Guistinna props for sticking up for both herself and Winnie.
