If it’s dorm living, that’s usually the case. One shared room.
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
So, are there two beds in that room?
I thought roommate just meant housemate, not sharing a literal room
Basherblade@lemmy.world 1 month ago
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s very common in college dorms to share a room like that. I noped out of that real quick back in the day.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
College. Traditionally dorms for US colleges are just a shared bedroom/study space in a hallway of similar rooms. The bathroom is also a community bathroom with banks of shower stalls, toilets/urinals, and sinks for every resident in that wing on that floor. Then there is a shared common space for everyone in the building for gatherings, recreation, studying, etc.
I never did a traditional dorm. I had a more apartment style arrangement on campus with two other roommates my first year in college. Unlike a traditional dorm, we had our own common area and bathroom for just the 3 of us, which was nice. But like a dorm, there was only one bedroom for all of us, with a twin size bunk bed and a twin size single bed. One of my roommates slept on a futon in the living room instead though, so it was really only me and another in the room. We were all friends from High School already too. So at least I didn’t have to share that tight space with two random strangers. We had enough drama with one of my roommates as it was.
I moved into real apartments the following years where I had my own room, even my own bathroom in one of them.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I went to ERAU Daytona, which had basically every kind of living arrangement you can think of except the traditional “bedrooms around a hallway around a communal bathroom” deal you described. Note: I have seen dorms exactly like that, but ERAU didn’t have them.
The closest you’d get was Doolittle hall, which has clusters of four rooms that share one bathroom, several to a hallway. McKay hall looks for all the world like an old motel, the room doors open to the outside world, each room has two beds, two desks and a bathroom in the back. The Student Village had a couple halls where a pair of rooms had a kind of antechamber for closet space with a bathroom in between, Adam and Wood halls. It also had O’Connor hall, where I lived, which featured 4 bedroom, 2 bath apartments with living rooms/kitchenettes, housing 8 men total. Just off of that was Stimpson Hall, where upperclassmen still living on campus lived. Imagine a conjoined studio apartment, is the best way I can describe this; two men lived in two bedrooms sharing a small common area and kitchen. Apollo Hall had just been built and they were filling it up, I never saw the interior of that building.
thelasttoot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This looks like a college dorm. Op is taking the picture from their own bed.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Generally speaking, -mate means you share that thing. So housemate, flatmate, workmate etc.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
In America it can mean either, though in college it usually refers to a dorm mate, which often house 2 people. It also describes people who share an apartment/house but have separate rooms.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s because the typical American is a semi literate troglodyte, anywhere else you would refer to someone like that as a flatmate or housemate.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
What about coffee mate?
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have you seen coffee prices these days? My coffeemate and I would prefer our own, but we have no choice but to “Lady and the Tramp” a grande caramel macchiato every morning.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
With or without straws
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Two sipping at once makes it fun
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
I mean that stuff is fine but I prefer milk.
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In dormitories they do put 2 kids in a room and the dormitories are separated by gender but it doesn’t stop teens and young adults from bonking the noodles
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When I was an exchange student we had 3 guys in a tiny room. I paid for a hotel soon after
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The neighbors in our exchange dorm were 4 huge South American guys. The room was so tiny and crammed, the beds occupied 85% of the space (they also had a tiny living room with a kitchen). They still got it going on with so goddamn many girls from the dorm. I think each one of them had another girl every night. How did they do it, I don’t know.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
What I did was give some money to the other guys for beer so they would leave for an hour or so
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just 3? Make it 4-8 with bunk beds in a room so tiny where literally the only free space is to stand in and walk to the end of the room and nothing else.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s not a room that’s a barracks lol
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My daughter who was a RA called it freshmen breeding season.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I mean, they’ve spent the last 3+ years being horny all the time and now they’re away from their parents and unsupervised…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Does a professor want to be seen there though?
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, that’s the hard to believe part here. A professor having sex with a student is believable. A professor having their photo taken while they’re in bed with a student by that student’s roommate and while they’re in the university’s dorm? That’s a lot harder to believe.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Give me an A or I post it.”
“You wouldn’t dare. It would ruin both of our reputations.”
*click