Mrs Dees Corner - Campus Life And The Different People We Run Into...

Campus life has different personalities and characters and one encounters them and learns how to appropriately deal with each person based on their idiosyncrasies....As an Undergraduate or a graduate, I am sure you know what I mean?

It's in the hostel you'll get to know the socially awkward and recluse, talkative and quarrelsome, dirty and disorganized and the ones who never cook nor do their laundry, but always go home on weekends to get their laundry done for them and also waste so much money eating out.


The extremely secretive are also not left out and I had one as a roommate.


From the day she stepped into our room till the time I graduated and left, I never saw her in her undies.


As early as 4.00am she was up, said her prayers and dashed for the bathroom. She would get dressed facing the wall while covering herself with a wrapper and no part of her body got exposed. Even the usual slip off of wrappers never happened to her and I was really intrigued.


I never saw her change sanitary pads or get stained and at a point I concluded she was part of the few who didn't have their periods until I witnessed her giving another roommate of ours a piece of her sanitary towels when hers finished.


My curiosity was stirred and I had to ask other roommates if they noticed as well how secretive and weird she was. My closest roommate affirmed I was not the only one, but we just drank water and minded our business. After all , on what basis were we to question her?


She never ran out of foodstuff to warrant begging anyone of us and each time we offered her meals, she politely turned us down. What a wow!!!


It's been years since we all graduated and went our different ways, but I still wonder how she managed to be so put together and never allowed her extreme privacy to slip up in a room of four occupants where privacy was reduced to the barest minimum.

*Campus life and living in hostel is the sweetest but dirtiest experience i ever had...I lived in the hostel in my first year and final year and in my final year,I had a secretive roommate as described up there,we used to gossip about her when she was not there....LOL..I will never forget the bittersweet memories I left UNIBEN with.....