If I had to give her a grade according to my first impression of her, I would have given her a full score. She was the ideal stranger to be sharing a room with. .
However, this wonderful impression was soon changed. While my roommate's living habits were within tolerable ranges, I had a huge problem with her boyfriend's visiting policies. As many of you know, Moody Tower is a co-ed dormitory that separated its residences according to sex every two floors. When it is a female floor, it is completely occupied by females. Therefore, the officially Moody Tower policy discourages prolonged male visitors to the female only floors. Sadly enough, this policy did not seem to be acknowledged by my roommate's boyfriend. He was in the room constantly. Not only was he spending a majority of his times in the day in the room, he was spending a huge portion of the nights in the room with my roommate. .
This created a huge problem for me. I was deeply disturbed by the fact that there was a male that was spending majority of his time in my room. From my past room sharing experiences in Taiwan, I assumed that everybody realized that there are certain unspoken rules that needed to be followed - Not having opposite sex visitors present most of the time was one of the unspoken laws that I learned when I was in Taiwan. Obviously, it did not seem to be the same lists of laws that my roommate shared. .
For the first few days, I tried desperately to hint to her that I could not stand the fact that there was always male presence in the room, and for once, I would liked to sleep peacefully at nighttime without disturbance. In Chinese culture, it was considered to be extremely offensive to point out someone's mistake right in their faces without any subtle hint. This had been the rule I lived by for twenty-three years, and I decided to keep quiet about the whole situation despite the ever-growing annoyance.