The Roommate

Have you seen the previews or full movie of "The Roommate"? Because I am pretty sure that is who I am living with this year. She's NUTS.... and wants to kill me.

From the sociological viewpoint, she is the perfect model for concurrency. Her day consists of waking up at 1 in the afternoon, skipping all of her classes, sleeping more, and then watching obnoxious cartoons at night. My roommate is on academic probation this quarter after getting less than a 1.0 last quarter! Her situation demonstrates concurrency. She didn't go to class fall quarter, still isn't going to class winter quarter, and will be suspended from OU spring quarter for not getting her GPA up. One bad event after the other keeps happening to her, it's a never ending domino effect in her life right now. She has to leave OU during the best quarter of them all and move back home and go to a community college. My roommate didn't realize the harsh consequences of her actions and now it's all being piled on her. I saw it coming all along, I don't feel bad for her. At all.

In class we discussed concurrency in beer pong. One person with Herpes or some other loooovely STD spreads it to the others playing pong. One action causes several actions to occur. In my roommate's situation, her action of not going to class and getting put on academic probation is even worse than getting herpes after a game of pong I'd say. We have one role here once admitted to Ohio University, and that is the role of a student. It is our job to go to class, do the homework, and studystudystudystudy. Nobody likes waking up for 8ams, but it's our social role. Life chances could also be used in this situation. My roommate was given a great life chance and just threw it down the drain.

On the bright side, I will have a double room all to myself. And I won't have to watch her stupid TV shows or listen to her stupid music.

Note to self: Never EVER do a random roommate again.