Let’s get down to the gist of it. You live with three other roommates and it is Halloween weekend. I bet you can guess what that means: all of your roommates have decided to take the liberty of housing their friends from out of town (because they go to lame schools and don’t have Freakfest). The result: you are a loner with a full house and a lot of responsibility.
1. Sleeping RoomThere is no way that we are going to be able to find enough room for everyone to crash. It just isn’t possible. We have one couch. ONE COUCH, I tell you. The only floor space we have available is for walking. In college, you can’t afford to have enough floor space to commute from one room to another and still have the room for a slumber party.
2. Feeding the Friends
I am sorry, but you are going to have to buy your own food. I barely have enough food to feed myself, let alone five strangers whom I have never met before. Go eat my roommate’s food; she invited you here anyway.
3. Having Someone to Talk to
I hate being alone. With being alone comes the absence of talking. Who am I supposed to talk to and hang out with while my roommates and their out-of-town friends are off gallivanting State Street during Freakfest? Bring me with you!
4. My Halloween Costume
Alright, so I sort of went out on a limb this year for my Halloween costume and am not 100 percent confident about it. I think it is pretty awesome, but I guess that’s subjective. In that case, my roomies are supposed to be talking me up and making me look cool, but they can’t actually do that when they are catering to their friends’ every need. I don’t want to be that lame person at the Halloween party who gets asked a million times who they are supposed to be! Roomie, help!
5. Mom(ing)
It just so happens that I am not only the loner this weekend, but I am also the so-called ‘Mom’ of the friend group. What a pair to go hand in hand. The problem: I usually try to keep track of my roommates as best as I can to make sure that they don’t make too many poor life choices. Now that all of my roommates’ high school friends are here, my number of people to keep track of just tripled. Solution: Don’t even try to keep track of everyone. It’s impossible. Just walk away.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween. But unlike other holidays, Halloween, particularly in college, is more chaotic than any other weekend excursion on campus because of all of the people coming in from out of town. Listen, just make sure that all of your roommates are aware of the fact that you might get a little crazy when your friends come to town, and that you really just want to spend the weekend hanging out with them. Your roommates deserve to know that much next Halloween after all of the hell and back this you put them through this Halloween. Goal number one for next year’s Halloween: keep it fun and lighthearted!