Outdoor Furniture Does Not Belong Indoors

Above is the living room that is located in Lever hall.  I like that we have an area to sit, however, it is not very comfortable.  The furniture is patio furniture!  It is plastic and hard and when you sit on it you basically slide off because it is so slippery.  I cannot go sit down there and be comfortable so it's pretty much useless.  If I don't want to study in my room, or go to the library, there aren't many places for me to go.  I would think with the amount of money we pay for tuition they could give us furniture that belongs inside and isn't waterproofed for the outdoors.  If I didn't live on campus this would not be a problem.
-Brandt

I Hope You Enjoy Burnt Food

I really enjoy cooking, and when I came to college I tried to keep cooking.  I've made a lot of cakes, brownies, and other things.  But the first time I used the oven in the community kitchen, I practically burned down the building.  Basically the oven is so old it does not have a timer.  So you have to try and time it as best as you can.  The first thing I cooked was brownies, the box said to cook them for forty minutes and I did.  Well it turns out the oven cooks everything about ten minutes faster than I expected.  So the brownies were extremely burnt and hard and not edible.  Since then I have learned to take everything out ten minutes earlier than it says.  I really would like to have an oven that does not burn everything, and also it smells.  I'm pretty sure last time I cooked some bread for a dinner we had it smelled like gas, which cannot be a good thing.  This is another reason I hate campus life! 
-Brandt 
   

Guy's Community Bathrooms

One of the worst things about living on campus is community bathrooms... especially in Byrnes. It always sucks when you wake up in the morning and go to take a shower and someone who lives on a different floor decides it would be funny if they used the shower as a toilet. Not only did they decide to take a dump in the bathroom but they did it on a Friday so it could stay there all weekend and smell up the whole bathroom. This is one of the many things wrong with hundreds of guys living in one dorm all sharing bathrooms and having no responsibility to clean anything up. The bathrooms get trashed all the time and that is where I have to shower and brush my teeth every day.
-John Mark 

Snooze Button

There are many examples I can give for the disadvantages of having a roommate but the one major problem I have with my roomate is his alarm clock. He has to get up hours before me every day for football workouts and he has the loudest alarm ever. Our neighbors say they can hear it through the walls sometimes. I don't know how it is even possible but one morning he didn't even wake up to his alarm and I had to climb down out of my loft to turn it off.  I then just let him keep sleeping and he missed his classes that morning. There is nothing more irritating than being woken up before you have to almost every day.

-John Mark 

Clutter Everywhere!

Nearly everyday I come tripping into my room because there is something on the floor right in front of the door.  My roommate, while I love her, she refuses to keep her side clean.  I have always been a bit neurotic when it comes to being neat.  I always have my stuff put away so that I can utilize my space.  Before coming to college I had never lived with anyone before.  I have always have my own room and I'v found that one of the minuses of living in a dorm is roommates.  There is a very unlikely chance that you will be matched with someone that has the same habits as you do.  I came to Clemson not knowing any girls so I had to do a random roommate.  For the most part, our personalities match but in terms of living style she drives me nuts!  There are always clothes everywhere and she can't even find things on her desk.  So when she wakes up before me in the morning and can't find her other shoe there is always a ton of throwing things around in attempt to find what she is looking for.  This typically wakes me up and I tend to have trouble falling back asleep.  One time I came back from class and the door was open, but she wasn't inside.  To my surprise she was in her closet, which explains why i couldn't see her, trying to find something.  This weird part about this was that she had a flashlight! She needed a flashlight to search her own closet.  This is when you know that some organization is necessary.  Usually I don't mind if my friends have messy rooms, it's their choice, but when I am sharing a room with someone, especially a dorm room, I would like it at least organized.  When she says she is going to clean that usually consists of cramming stuff into every draw she can find.     
-Brandt

My roommate's desk

My desk...that I can actually use

My dresser

My roommates dresser