The kind of roommate to avoid

* Covers his ankles with black shoe polish when he can't find a clean pair of socks

* Wears a T-shirt that says, 'Cockroaches are people, too!'

* Owns an accordion or any other musical instrument

* Slams his writing hand in the car door to avoid turning in the assignment

* Brings cheerleaders to exams

* Has a pet anaconda

* Writes his assignments with fluorescent markers

* Snores creatively - it resembles the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on their bad day

* Can burp in the tune of Old McDonald had a farm

* Plays frisbee in the room

* Calls sleeping at 2.30 am an early night

* Orders food at 1 am

* Can do hexadecimal Maths mentally

* Can rattle out the names of all US presidents in chronological order

* Who thinks there is no limit to how may times you can wear a pair of jeans without washing it

* Starts to think about buying textbooks in October... maybe

* And having bought them, uses them to kill cockroaches in the room

* Starts his/her essay on the Dark Ages with: 'It was a dark and stormy knight....'