College RAs Share The Memorable Events They've Had With Freshmen
There's a reason why Resident Advisors, or RAs, get their housing for free. They have to put up with some pretty wild, annoying, and sometimes disturbing situations.
When it comes to the wide-eyed freshmen who are away from home for the first time, the experiences they create can often be monumentally stupid. RAs who put up with freshmen are absolute saints...
especially considering how much trouble they end up in.
Can you imagine having to explain to a resident that they can't house an injured baby bird in their bed? Or dealing with a resident letting their homeless friend sleep in the common area?
What about writing kids up for dragging an entire bamboo tree into the building? Or threatening expulsion on a group that refuses to surrender their massive pet pig? It's hard to comprehend just what goes through freshmen heads at times.
Read on for some of the strangest and most memorable stories RAs have had of their wild freshmen residents!
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#1 When We Said "Friends," We Didn't Mean This
One resident was hiding a homeless person in the TV room.
Residents were welcome to have friends on site and they are also welcome to stay in the TV room and the rec center after lock-up, but they are required to pull the door closed after they leave.
This guy was staying in the TV room with his homeless friend until the RAs finished their rounds, locking him in there, then going back and sleeping in his own room.
He woke up early the next day to get his friend out before the RAs came around in the morning unlocking everything again.
#2 Listen, We've Got To Talk About The Lobsters
An international kid went to the fish market. He bought live crabs and lobsters, then proceeded to keep them in the fridge drawer alive for days. The vegetarians and the vegans refused to use the fridge and it caused so much grief and drama.
It wasn't like I could write the kid up either because he was doing nothing wrong—that was his food after all, and he had the same right to use that fridge as everyone else.
#3 Guys, Your Room Is A Literal Pigsty
A group of freshman in a four-man suite got permission for a pet somehow from the housing office. They didn’t specify it was a pig. The smell was unbelievable. That lasted a couple of weeks until the dean of students finally gave me and the housing office the power to threaten expulsion on the group. They were really upset. They ended up having no choice but to give the pig away.
#4 This Is Truly The Resident From Hell
We had a bamboo forest near campus. I was on duty once when two dudes dragged an entire tree into the main lounge and up the stairs. I asked them, "What the heck are you doing?" They said they were making rafts. I wrote it up of course, but... it wasn't easy to figure out what to write up. I settled on "destruction of campus property" since I'm pretty sure you can't swipe an entire bamboo tree...
I'm doing the end-of-the-year room inspections. I expect this to go badly. The bamboo bandit has destroyed thousands of dollars in campus property this year alone. He shattered a floor-length window in the main lounge and broke every light on the third floor while tipsy. Every single one. His desk is also a total wreck.
