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College roommates can be less than desirable. Let’s be honest: they can be downright revolting. Some are severely challenged in hygiene and organizing skills. Some are insanely clean and demand the same of others. Some take your stuff. Some won’t give you a thing. Some are too loud. Some are freakishly quiet.

To commemorate these annoying, infuriating, and sometimes endearing habits, we have compiled the following list of bad habits. Vote for which ones you think are most annoying:

Borrowing without asking (a.k.a. stealing) – Includes taking or using clothes, electronics, food, toiletries, dishes, CDs, DVDs, magazines, and books. It also includes not contributing to the purchase of common items, like toilet paper, cleaning supplies, etc.

Picking nose – Includes dredging the nasal passage walls for mucous build-up. Most troubling cases involve ingestion of removed mucous or depositing of mucous on furniture. Leaving used tooth floss or q-tips around may also fall under this category.

Leaving dishes unwashed – Includes using dishes, silverware, or cookware and then leaving them in an uncleaned state. Whether they are left in the kitchen sink, on the coffee table, or buried under a pile of clothing, any abandonment of unclean dishes falls under this category.

Not taking a bath – Includes lack of regular showering or bathing within two or more days of the last instance of showering or bathing. Sponge baths do not constitute showering or bathing.

Being too noisy – Includes playing music, shouting, laughing, or otherwise generating noise at higher than acceptable sound decibel levels, especially during sleeping or study times. However, if noise occurs during other times, you may be guilty of improperly assuming authority (see below).

Being a recluse – Includes not returning greetings, not reciprocating polite conversation when offered, hiding in one’s room, or otherwise inhibiting reasonable communication and interaction with one’s roommate.

Always having company over – Includes continuous presence of non-roommate persons in the premises, especially at inopportune times of the day to the point of encroaching on privacy and personal property. Level of annoyance depends largely on physical appearance of and unwanted noise generated by non-roommate persons.

Creating unfavorable odors – Includes gastrointestinal expulsions, poorly prepared food items, lack of personal hygiene, and odors originating from environmental hazards that are the result of neglect (i.e. dirty clothes hamper).

Improper assumption of authority – Includes all communications, both verbal and nonverbal, implying a dominant role on the part of the communicator. Common examples include leaving out sarcastic notes, scolding, and glaring disapprovingly.

Overuse of facilities – Includes exceeding one’s daily hot water quota, toilet time quota, or remote control time quota.

Tell us which ones annoy you the most. Got one to add to the list? Tell us about it below…

For the millions of college students out there, ’tis the season for interviews. Yes, the interview: that most uncomfortable of meetings between you and a prospective employer where you must dress the right way, say the right things, and avoid, at all costs, saying the wrong things. It is the last hoop to leap through before attaining your desired job. It could also end up being a flaming ring of doom and whirling blades that puts your career goals in intensive care.

We’ve all been tripped up in interviews. Interviewees have been known to screw up in pretty much every way possible. From bad breath to insulting the interviewer’s kids to completely forgetting what job you’re interviewing for to clogging their toilet, interviews tend to bring out everyone’s inner idiot. This phenomenon may be caused by nerves, over-confidence, lack of preparation, or just plain bad habits. Following are five of the most common faux pas people commit during job interviews:

1. Showing up late As if the gods of chaos were suddenly unleashed to work mischief on the mortal world, the darnedest things tend to happen on the day of an interview to make you late. Cars have been known to break down. Kids have been known to lose their Happy Meal all over interviewee’s suits. Twenty-car pileups have been known to clog up every known road and highway.

This does little to promote your image as a confident, capable professional, especially when you show up with your shirt untucked, mustard on your cheek, sweat drenching your suit, and a faint cloud of engine exhaust lingering around you.

2. Talking bad about previous employers Almost everyone has had an unpleasant experience with a past employer. That’s usually why they’re looking for another job. When you start up a new romantic relationship, it is common to tell them how terrible and unfulfilling your last relationship was. This makes your new friend feel good that you have completely detached yourself from the last one. With employment relationships, however, the opposite is true.

When you say, “Yeah, my last boss was a mindless drone, concerned only about profits and unable to loosen up and have fun,” the interviewing thinks you are unconcerned about profits, just out to party, unyielding, negative, and possibly toxic to organizational harmony. If you couldn’t get along with your last boss, why would you get along with your new one?

3. Dressing down There is no one uniform that would suit every job interview. Shorts and t-shirts may work in some. Crisp business suits may work in others. It all depends on the type of company you’re interviewing with.

Many individuals unfortunately make the mistake of dressing however best fits them, without considering the type of company they are interviewing with. Some self-absorbed hipsters have been known to wear mauve corduroy suits to interviews with investment banks. In any case, the I’m-too-sexy-for-this-firm approach really only sends one simple message: CLUELESS.

4. Responding that you are too perfect, brilliant, or otherwise unchallengeable when asked what your biggest weakness is Nobody’s perfect. Nobody wants to work with someone who is purportedly perfect. People who think they are too much of a perfectionist, too brilliant, too incredibly gifted in tracking general ledgers, etc., usually turn out to be: 1) not really that good; 2) full of themselves; and, therefore, 3) impossible to train or integrate into a team.

Besides, the “perfectionist” answer just feels like a cop-out. It shows that the interviewee hasn’t done enough introspection to identify a real weakness.

5. Not knowing anything about the company or the position After submitting applications and sending in resumes, some interviewees get to the interview only to reveal that they really have no idea what the job entails, what the company does, or if they are even remotely qualified for the job. This is bad.

Depending on the interviewer, they may end the interview right there, make noticeably small talk for the remaining time, or take the time to educate the interviewee about the company and the position. Regardless, unless applying for an entry-level position with McDonalds, this usually spells certain doom for the interviewee’s chances of getting hired.

Don’t let these glaring mistakes ruin your career path. Plan ahead. Do some research beforehand and then approach them accordingly. This is your chance to strut your stuff. Don’t blow it!