"Slant6" (slant-6)
06/02/2016 at 01:33 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
06/02/2016 at 01:33 • Filed to: None | 4
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I’m the RA in room 419. Right next to room 420.
I have my work cut out for me.
But it’s good news, because it means I have my own bathroom with a bathtub. Not all the RA rooms have this, but my room does. No more public showers!
It’s also larger than the double rooms (pictured above), but it’s just me in it. It’s one of the oldest dorms on campus, built in 1952, so I guess they used to give nicer facilities to RAs. The building I was in last year was built in 1968 and my RA’s room was less than half the size of the double rooms.
Has a fairly good view:
That mountain to the left is more visible than that picture makes it seem.
I’m thinking about building a radiator cover.
TheHondaBro
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 01:43 |
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If my room was in shit condition to begin with, are you still going to charge me for repairs at the end of the year?
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Slant6
> TheHondaBro
06/02/2016 at 01:46 |
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This hall is being painted and having Ethernet installed this summer. And each room is photographed before move in day.
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TheHondaBro
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 01:47 |
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My personal experience with an RA. He didn’t seem to understand that my room was broken when I moved in.
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Slant6
> TheHondaBro
06/02/2016 at 01:56 |
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I’ve heard some negative stories. Although most of them are people getting mad about being busted for smoking in the dorms or getting caught with alcohol. Which really, both of those things can be done elsewhere or discreetly enough to not get caught.
My floor last year was really good, we played games and watched movies together and stuff, I’m hoping it can be like that.
Textured Soy Protein
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 02:00 |
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I lived in room 420 my freshman year. I made sure to live up to my room number.
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Slant6
> Textured Soy Protein
06/02/2016 at 02:02 |
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The room number is actually stolen. I work for the Housing office now during the summer. I’m considering suggesting renumbering the room another non issued room number in the 400s so it won’t be stolen again. Kinda like this:
MountainRoadPhysicist
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 02:08 |
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I remember driving by that sign before they changed it to 419.99. Yay Colorado!
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TheHondaBro
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 02:48 |
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It’s all up to you, man. You’re the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho.
Honeybunchesofgoats
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 05:51 |
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Most of my four years in college, I had RAs who really didn’t try to organize or do anything, except for my senior year, where we had one organize a “meet your neighbor” thing. She made a little ice breaker wheel with questions like “what’s your favorite movie?” I got “what’s your least favorite candy?” I don’t really like candy at all, so I tried to pick something I figured would be universally reviled, so I chose Skittles. I got booed. Loudly.
About a week later, a girl from my floor came up to me and said “I don’t like Skittles either” in a really quiet voice, as if we were discussing escaping to West Germany.
Anyway, I forget where I was going with this, but fuck Skittles.
Stapleface
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 06:26 |
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I never went away to college. Sometimes I wonder what I missed out on (mainly co-eds).
jariten1781
> TheHondaBro
06/02/2016 at 08:06 |
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That shit never stops. One of the houses I rented was built in the late 1800s and had an original wood burning stove that had been out of commission since the 1950s. There was enough vegetation on the property that just from tree falls I could heat the house all winter at no cost. I busted open the rusted ass stove for the first time in more than half a century and it was in terrible condition with literally fossilized coals. Spent a ton of time and a bit of money refurbing it and got it back up and running...and it was an amazing heater, a single 4" diameter split heated the entire house from around 1600 till heading off to work the next day.
On move out they charged me to ‘clean the ashes from the stove’??? It was mostly cleaned, no clumped ash bed or anything, but not like scrubbed and oiled. It was in exactly the condition that someone wanting to use the stove next winter would need it. Pointed out, with pictures!, that the stove was in worse condition when I moved in. Their position was that since it was sealed by rust it ‘didn’t count’ but now that it was open it needed to be cleaned to bare metal. They only withheld 30 bucks so it wasn’t worth fighting beyond that, but still WTF?
Oh, and in the ad they put up to re-rent it the first bullet point was “Fully functional vintage woodstove. Free heat!”
Assholes.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 08:18 |
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my freshman year RA took his “Make everyone friendly” budget and took us drag racing. Turns out my 1997 monte carlo could just barely pull it’s rear tires over the line before a 2007 mazda 3. Also, my friend can’t dump-clutch a MkV GTI. Good times. I cleaned house and won quite a few side bets that night.
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Slant6
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
06/02/2016 at 08:24 |
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I don’t know if I could use money for that, but there is a dragway 40 minutes away and a dirt track in town. There’s also the abandoned Nascar track that Top gear went on in their Appalachian special.
Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 08:46 |
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Ha. I lived in 425 in my Sophomore year apartment. The 420 plaque was stolen at least three or four times before management realized what was going on.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Slant6
06/02/2016 at 09:36 |
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Awwwwwww that’s lame you can’t spend the money on that. That launched a lot of in-jokes between us. Not the least of which being “GTI drivers can’t get it off when the pressure’s on”