If you are having problems with your roommate, you should have come out on Tuesday, September 27 in the Alumni Lounge for the event “The Naked Roommate.” SCOPE’s Comedy and Lecture Committee wanted to be able to help students with their roommate problems, and if you came to this event, then you got some good advice.
To break the tension and make the students more comfortable, the presenter, Harlan Cohen, started off with his naked roommate song. He sang about his first college roommate being a nudist and how it was difficult to deal with and understand. It broke the awkwardness in the room, and it was a funny way to start the night.
Then Cohen brought up problems that most roommates have: aspects such as not understanding each other, different sleeping habits, etc. The big one he said was being uncomfortable with each other. But to start to get along with people that you live with, you have to break the uncomfortable barrier. Cohen’s main point was that you have to learn to be comfortable with who you are first and not care what people think of you; you should not even care what you think of you. If you can become comfortable with whom you are and what you do, then you can break that uncomfortable barrier by doing something uncomfortable to break into being roommates. It is a concept some students liked and had other shaking their heads; but it is some good advice.
He continued to talk about breaking the “uncomfortableness” and getting along with your roommates rather than avoiding them, and he also gave pointers on how to do that. Cohen even went into the audience and asked about personal situations that audience members had with their roommates. They had a chance to talk about the problems, and Cohen wanted to hear about it and help.
Cohen ended his presentation with another song, that was again hilarious and made everyone laugh. He started off with a song and ended with a song, making it a good ending to great evening. This presentation was both funny and helpful. I think the Comedy and Lecture Committee from SCOPE picked a great presenter to have come to campus.
