"Nibby" (nibby68)
05/14/2014 at 00:59 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
05/14/2014 at 00:59 • Filed to: None | 2
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
YSI-what can brown do for you
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 01:01 |
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I hated dorms. All I wanted to do was not talk to anyone BUT you were stuck with a roommate, who ALWAYS wanted to talk.
I am friendly I promise.
GeorgeyBoy
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 01:02 |
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My desk was useless and filled with garbage. Probably explained my poor first year.
Leadbull
> YSI-what can brown do for you
05/14/2014 at 01:06 |
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First semester of college, I had an introverted roommate. I am also introverted.
If we were ever in the room together (a rarity during daylight hours), we'd just sit on our own beds, on opposite sides of the room, with headphones in and laptops out.
It was super awkward.
Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 01:06 |
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DORM LIFE.
ABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
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GeorgeyBoy
> YSI-what can brown do for you
05/14/2014 at 01:07 |
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My roommate and I got into a really bad drunken fist fight with 2 weeks left in the semester. I beat the crap out of him, but somehow I got a black eye.
It was then I found out I'm not a "people person".
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> Leadbull
05/14/2014 at 01:09 |
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This sounds like my sort of roommate. I think all my roommates think I hated them(and to be fair, I did) only because I didn't talk to them.
Squid
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 01:12 |
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So glad I don't have to deal with dorm life. Although I did luck out with the room mates I have, I don't have too many issues aside from one of them stealing my burritos and not fucking replacing them. . . The dorms are also twice as much as renting a room out in a house so fuck that. Oh and I don't want to be the 30 year old dude living in a dorm. . . hahaha
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Leadbull
> YSI-what can brown do for you
05/14/2014 at 01:13 |
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We were cool with each other; just didn't interact much.
I locked myself out once while he was away somewhere. I went down to the security desk and asked them to open my door, and they told me to just call my roommate. They were super surprised to find out that I didn't have his number. We weren't even facebook friends...
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> GeorgeyBoy
05/14/2014 at 01:19 |
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I don't know when I found out I was not a people person, but I think it is for the best. I would literally murder everyone if I had to be around them all the time.
cabarne4
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 01:21 |
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I was in the dorms my first semester. Actually liked it. Now that I'm going back to a 4 year uni, I'm gonna go back to the dorms for a bit.
Your setup is all wrong, though. I wish I still had pics from my first dorm room. Both of us brought 32" flatscreens, and both of us brought an xbox 360. We also both happened to bring along Logitec 5.1 computer surround sound systems. We put the dressers side by side, and set up both TVs, xboxes, and speaker systems beside each other. Then I bought this:
It's an audio splitter, obviously. But it has a ridiculous number of jacks. Only cost like $15 or $20. I still have it. My roommate had another audio splitter (just an average 1 in, 2 out), and some high quality wireless headphones made for TVs (they had a receiver that plugged into the TV's audio out). He put his splitter on the back of his TV, and I put the Belkin on the back of mine. His TV was sending audio out to his headphones, and to my splitter. My TV was sending audio out to my splitter (which was also receiving audio from his TV). The splitter sent the signals to both sets of speakers.
End result? Two TVs simultaneously pumping sounds out of a 10 speaker, 2 subwoofer audio system that sat around the entire room. It made Call of Duty that much more epic. If he wanted to watch TV, he'd turn the TV volume all the way down, and listen on the headphones.
My splitter still had 2 open spots, and we didn't like that. So we got another Logitec system (this one a 2.1), putting our total speaker count to 12, and our total subwoofer count to 3. On the last empty port, we plugged in a standard audio-to-audio cable, so we could play music through an iPod, phone or laptop while playing CoD.
I officially move back into the dorms the beginning of July (after not living in dorms for 4 years — I took a few years off for work, and am finishing college kind of slow). Hopefully I have cool roommates. I do know that I'll be in an "apartment style" dorm. Basically a two bedroom, 1 bath apartment (with a kitchen and living room as well), but two people in each room.
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> Leadbull
05/14/2014 at 01:25 |
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Yeah I am didn't have all 3 of my roommates numbers and I am not Facebook friends with them either. I now live in an apartment with people I am good friends with. . . they don't understand how they can see me once a week yet I live in the same house as them. I am a sneaky bastard I tells yah!
Fookin' Prawns
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 02:55 |
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Oh, man. The old FP layout.
I've gone to a community college for the last three years, so my dorm is just my room in my family's house. I wish I'd gone to a 4-year straight out of high school and gotten the full "college" experience of living with a few thousand other people my age all going to the same school. I wouldn't have some of the stuff I have now if I'd gone away for school (my car, most notably) but it bugs me that I missed out.
I'm transferring to a 4-year in the fall, and since I'm going to be at a junior, I'll probably be living off campus with some roommates. They'll be around my age (21) and hopefully will be responsible/non-Single White Female/able to eat soup without slurping, etc.
I mean, I have three years of debauchery to make up. Not three years of shitty roommates. So I need good ones.
thebigbossyboss
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 07:00 |
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If you guys lives where it snow...mattress tobogganing is the best type of dorm life.
Jayhawk Jake
> Fookin' Prawns
05/14/2014 at 08:27 |
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My friends and I were very mellow compared to the debauchery that goes on with some dorms, but I still have quite a few hilarious stories from my 2 years in the dorms. Tornados, fires, and my friend stepping in splooge...ah, I miss those days
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Jayhawk Jake
> thebigbossyboss
05/14/2014 at 08:28 |
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We just had sleds, but on a hilly campus snow was a BLAST
Someone built a ramp on the steepest hill once, that was fun
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Nibby
> Fookin' Prawns
05/14/2014 at 08:41 |
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I
hated living with room mates. I ended up getting an apartment for my last 2 years of college.
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Nibby
> Squid
05/14/2014 at 08:42 |
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\o/
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Nibby
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
05/14/2014 at 08:42 |
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DAT FAN
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Nibby
> GeorgeyBoy
05/14/2014 at 08:42 |
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o_O
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Nibby
> YSI-what can brown do for you
05/14/2014 at 08:43 |
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First semester of college, there were 5 of us. One of them slept at his friend's place and then a few days later everyone got bed bugs. He didn't do shit about it "Oh, they're just bugs."
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Nibby
> cabarne4
05/14/2014 at 08:44 |
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I have that same Belkin splitter at home and my setup here is the best.
I did fix up that college setup actually... see?
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cabarne4
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 09:40 |
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is that... Windows 95 on a Mac?
I actually had a 2010 MacBook Pro for my first college laptop. Now I have a Toshiba with twice the specs
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Nibby
> cabarne4
05/14/2014 at 09:42 |
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That's an early 2009 MacBook Pro... running Windows 3.11
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cabarne4
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 09:47 |
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Oh shit! I see it better now (typed my last reply on an iPod... on my comp now). Yeah mine was a late 2009 / early 2010 MBP. Got it for Christmas my senior year of high school. It took a shit last fall, so I replaced it with a powerhouse Toshiba (that was actually cheaper than the Macbook). 12GB ram, Intel i7, 1.5TB harddrive. Honestly, I miss the build quality of the Mac. The keyboard and trackpad on this laptop are utter shit, and I got spoiled by the solid state HDD I had in the MBP. I don't like waiting for things to open anymore. :P
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Nibby
> cabarne4
05/14/2014 at 09:54 |
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Solid state drive, not solid state HDD :P that's kinda an oxymoron. xD
Yeah, SSDs really spoil you. My MBP (pictured) got water damaged (only the keyboard and trackpad died) but my dad had a 17" from the same time, so we swapped computers and I put my HD in the 17" one and put his in the 15" one. He only used it as a media computer anyways. I ended up selling both of them at some point and now I got a ThinkPad W530, i7 quad core, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD + 128GB SSD, 2GB NVIDIA gfx. The keyboard isn't as good as my T61p's but it's still better than most new laptops.
Also, yeah, I am surprised at how flimsy many new laptops are. Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Dell, hp... they have poor build quality and tend to flex.
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cabarne4
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 09:56 |
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lol semantics.
Dear god, I'm kind of jealous of your ThinkPad. I was on the verge of buying one (had it speced out and everything), but the Toshiba was more reasonably priced. The flex is just downright stupid. Not just the screen flex test, but as I type I can watch the whole keyboard deck push down.
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Nibby
> cabarne4
05/14/2014 at 10:30 |
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Keyboard flex is unacceptable. That's like your car's steering wheel wobbling.
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cabarne4
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 11:01 |
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My point exactly. This keyboard is utter shit. At least it's finally "breaking in". When I first got it, keys would stick, or not press at all... Completely unacceptable for a brand new computer. Oh, and Toshiba shipped it to me with a broken screen, and refused to accept it as a warranty return. The hassle I had to go through to replace it is just unbelievable. Last time I buy from Toshiba.
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Nibby
> cabarne4
05/14/2014 at 11:05 |
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Toshitba?
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cabarne4
> Nibby
05/14/2014 at 11:27 |
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Yeah, pretty much. Only two good features of this comp: Sound system (Harman/Kardon, gets pretty loud), and the ram (though you've got me beat).