Flat mate Challenges Living with five girls that are total strangers from different backgrounds, home lives, races, and economic statuses, can become quite challenging. I live in Mason Hall and one of our flatmates was getting messy - we kept asking her to tidy up after herself. Her roommate was especially mad at her for the mess she left in their room, they both started picking at eachother. One was mad about the room and the other about loud music. Things got heated, the rest of us were upset that she was not doing her dishes and helping with the trash. We didn’t know what to do! It got the point where we were asked to take sides.
One of them kept coming to me for advice since I have been dubbed the “apartment mom.” I helped initiate a
One of them kept coming to me for advice since I have been dubbed the “apartment mom.” I helped initiate a