Roommates

So, as I'm sure I've mentioned, or you've caught on to--I live with people. I am in a dorm and live with people. Awesome, right?

Wrong.

Living with people can cause problems with one's inner balance of chi. I am referring more to living with those certain people who do not respect the boundaries set up by the majority, do not seem to understand the basics of personal hygiene, or simply do not understand what it means to live with people.
I lived with the same roommate the first three years of my college career. I thought we were a match made by the gods and were meant to last all four years. Till she hit me with the "I think I want to live in a single next year" line.
I love her so I wanted to make sure she was happy. So she found a group of girls to get a six-man apartment with. This means they each have their room and so they have separate lives.
Suddenly, I needed a roommate. I found one, and a lovely one at that. The problem was that she came with baggage. Baggage that I wasn't sure I could handle.
Well, I've lasted a whole semester; we all have. As this new semester begins we (my roommate and the other suitemate and I) are beginning to see the things that were tolerable last semester as not so tolerable this semester.

We all have those little things that make us crazy. I, for example, hate to leave dishes festering in the sink all night, not to mention multiple days. I have stated this for all my suitemates to hear, and they all seem to agree that this is gross.

And yet one of them continually leaves dishes in the sink, or even on the counter, day after day.

This same person has constant hygiene issues that have been addressed multiple times, but she still refuses to take the necessary steps (aka showering) to continue as a respectable human being.

These two things on there own would be enough for a person renting an apartment to ask the other to move out. I, however, feel like I can't ask this of her because I know that she has some psychological problems or another, or because of the fact that she "has never been able to keep a roommate for a whole semester."

One can only wonder why.