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What about the roommate?

In My Opinion

NICHOLASPITTS

ASST SPORTS EDITOR

NDP722@CABRINI EDU

I recall a night during my freshman year, where I woke up to my third roommate’s bed shaking and the sound of clothing slipping off. I was afraid to open my eyes and I shuddered at the thought of what I would see if I did. Sure enough, he was drunk and with some chick that I had never met before.

Neither of them realized that my other roommate and I were still in the room.

I am not too sure what happened after that because I grabbed my comforter and a pillow and left the room. I spent the night on my neighbor’s floor instead of the comfort of my own bed.

That was my first of many awkward sex encounters at Cabrini College.

I guess you can say that I’m a little bitter about that episode, but the truth is, I never actually know what goes in my room when I’m not around. It only takes one time to walk into something that you know you shouldn’t be seeing. After feeling that awkward, you become quite aware that just opening your own door can be quite an adventure.

It has more or less come to a system of keyjiggling. I walk up to the door and push my key in hard enough for anyone in the room to hear and if they are well, preoccupied, then they’ll just say, “Yo come back later!”

Eventually I get a text message saying it is safe to re-enter my room.

At the very least, I can say we have impeccable communication between each other.

I guess it is kind of sad when you think about how used to this I’ve really become. I have to say that this happened a lot more last semester, and this semester has been relatively quiet.

But, when someone asks me to write a perspective on how people regard sex here at Cabrini, well, how am I