Roomie drama 101

The situation:  You just got out of the shower and are toweling off in the comfort of your own room.  Everything is going fine.  You take you sweet time because, really, what’s the rush?  Then all of a sudden you hear the distinct sound of a key being inserted into a lock and the doorknob jiggling.  There is no time to change, nowhere to hide.  The door swings open, and there stands your roommate with three of her guy friends.  They take you in, frozen in the middle of the room wearing nothing but a bra and panties. Your roommate apologizes and closes the door, but not before her possie catches an eyeful of you.  You are mortified. You are the naked roommate. 
The solution:  This is a sticky situation because its not like you can tell your roommate to knock every time she wants to come into the room. What you can do is tell her to knock only when she has friends coming over.  Or at least ask if everyone in the room is decent.  Although you are sharing this room, and she is completely entitled to having company over, you are entitled to you time.  You time includes, but is not limited to: quiet homework time, studying, post-shower process (hair, getting dressed, shaving, sleeping, and laundry). 
The situation:  Snoring!  I am just going to put this out there.  Your roommate snores like a warthog battling it out for food.  Loud ripping noises are emanating from her tiny nose.  It almost seems impossible that such a small person can be making noises that a lawnmower couldn’t cover up.   You try everything to get through the night.  Sleeping pills make you drowsy in class the next day (if you even have the will power to wake up from your hazy drugged-out state), ear-plugs make you sleep through your alarm, playing music is just more noise to add to the symphony coming from the bed next to you, and throwing stuff at her makes her suspicious….although that can be fun…Anyways.  Your tired, you can’t concentrate in class, your head feels like its full of cement.  Help?
The solution:  Talk to her.  It’s going to be awkward, your going to stall, and your going to think of every other plan in the world to get you to sleep.  Anything to avoid that conversation.  But alas, it’s the only solution.  Chances are your roomie has no idea she snores like a banshee.  How could she?  She is passed out for the brunt of it.  Tell her that it’s keeping you from doing well in school, and you fall asleep in class.  Maybe record her one night, and give it to her as proof.  Say you wouldn’t have brought it up if it wasn’t effecting you so much.  Tell her the truth.  There are snoring strips that you can buy from target, cvs, wallgreens, you name it, where you just place a small strip of material across the bridge of your nose, and that will keep you from snoring.   She will buy the strips, apologize, and move on.
The situation:  Your roommate is a hot mess. Clothes are strewn about the floor, candy rappers are stuffed into corners, your fridge is full of leaky take out containers and there is a thick musk that invades you the second you step through the door.  The smell is starting to stick on you when you go to class, it makes getting dressed in the morning a task for a trained ninja, and bugs are starting to make their way into your suitcases.  Ew! 
The solution:Sit her down, (obviously in the hallway, because the chairs in your room are camouflaged with scarves and towels).  Tell her if things don’t change, you will have to request a roommate change.  This is not a safe, or healthy environment for you.  Your room is the one place on campus that you have to just chill and unwind from a particularly hard English class. The scare of a roommate change should kick your roommates butt into gear and get her to clean up.