OkState Confessions 1 - The Deeds of Barn Girl and Other Roommate Confessions

We circulated anonymous polls among OSU students searching for Roommate Confessions, and the results were... interesting, to say the least. In this episode, Sara, Grace, and Julia read from the first round of secrets and wonder about what lessons to take away from them for sharing living spaces with others. One submission was so epic, it takes almost the whole episode to explore! Tune in for the full story and visit our Linktree to submit your anonymous confessions about roommates, relationships, and other situations you do not write home about.

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Transcript

STUFF OSU SHOULD KNOW

OKSTATE CONFESSIONS, 1: Roommate Confessions

PRODUCED & RELEASED: April 2025

[9:13]

Cast:

Julia Price, Sara Hershberger, Grace Kraeer, Keighly White

[Since this is a informal, spontaneous conversation, for the transcript we opted to leave out the names of the speakers, but just to indicate where different people are speaking]

INTRO:  [OSU Band strikes up] This is Stuff [various voices chanting] O-S-U Should Know [drumroll]... [00:06]

“Howdy pokes! Welcome to the OkState Confession, a new segment of The Stuff OSU Should Know podcast. 

We’re your hosts Julia Price, Sara Hershberger, Grace Kraeer, and Keighly White.

Okay so here is the jist, we asked OkState students to fill out google forms with their confessions, and we report back to y’all said confessions. 

Your anonymity is guaranteed. Your dignity… not so much.”

“Okay, our first confession today comes from Bennet Hall. Um, the only background information we received was that they came from highschool together and she didn’t feel like she knew enough about her to realize that it was a bad idea to live with her. So, to start, we got a bullet pointed list. What do we think about bullet points?”

“I'm a big fan of bullet points.”

“Yeah, we have a lot of details and can't wait to dive into this.”

“So this roommate confession, um… the first bullet point says ‘From the first week of school, to the week before Thanksgiving break, my roommate was stuffing her garbage into a closet, rather than just taking it out. Mold and bugs started to grow, and the bugs began to migrate into my bathroom. It took me two weeks to get rid of all the flies and ants after she had taken out the trash. Only after I had piled it up outside of her door.’ [1:22]

What do we think about point number one?”

“Bugs. I hate bugs, first off, hate bugs.” 

“Bugs in my bathroom?! I feel like I'm in my most vulnerable state when I'm in the bathroom. I don't want to mess with bugs in that moment. I'm not prepared to handle them.”

“Yeah especially when it's a space like you're supposed to be clean. Like, that's sick.” 

[Laughter, and “yeahhhh….”] 

“Sick to my stomach.” 

“I think I would like move out immediately.” 

“Okay, bullet point two, um: ‘this same roommate had such horrible social skills that her old friend group dropped her over the most stupid reason, so she became really possessive of me. She wanted to track me, know who I was with, and come with me to everything I went to. The problem was she socially didn't know how to act. She smelt like meat, always, [stifled laughter] and she was rude. When I got closer with my now best friends, she yelled at me and sent a 500 word text explaining to me why it's not okay to have other friends. Eventually, my only solution was to cut her off and avoid her at all costs. With hope she wouldn't find me and… hurt me’ [slight laughter]. 

Okay, bullet point two reaction.”

“Meat? How do you get to that point? Like what do you do to yourself to start smelling like meat?”  

“Honestly, like, wow… like-” 

“It’s kinda impressive.” 

“It’s kinda impressive.” 

[Laughter]

“Like, I’m wondering the routine…” 

“I know, drop the routine.” 

“Literally.” 

“For science.” 

“Everything else, it’s giving like a Criminal Minds episode.” 

[Laughter] [2:50]

“I just think that it’s crazy this is just one confession, because there is three more bullet points.”

“Dang.” 

“Okay, so the next bullet point says, ‘same roommate again managed to make my breakup at the beginning of the year completely about her. When I stopped updating her with my breakup she sent me a 816 word text about how I was fake for not telling her everything, and how I was a [redacted] for telling my other roommate, that I didn't know, how to talk to said roommate. We eventually made up after two weeks of dodging each other, but it still didn't feel right.’

“How do you make a breakup about yourself?” 

“Yeah, I have no idea.” 

“I don't… that's honestly wild, the narrative in her head, like, always victimizing herself, honestly.”

“Yeahhh, well… I'm like what are some good traits like are there any? Because I feel like we’re not hygienic, not clean, not a kind person.”

“Yeah. Like the bug closest.” 

“The bug closet.” 

“That one’s, like, wow.

“Yeah, that would be… meat? major red flag.” 

“And the fact that they made up is beyond me.” 

“I could not.” 

“Absolutely not.” 

“Yeah.” 

“Absolutely not.” 

“Okay, bullet point four says, ‘the same roommate for a final time mended things with me after the fight, and then manipulated me to share details about my now ex boyfriend. Shared that with another girl I had been friends with, and that girl used the info to get close with my ex and then hook up with him. And she goes to Oklahoma State.’ [4:13]

“How did she manage to hook up with somebody with a meat stench? Is that what the thing is?”

“No, I think it says that the meat girl told another girl, and she used the information to get close with her ex boyfriend.”

“OHHHHH! Ohhhh, ohhh… okay.”

“Ew! That is not a girls’ girl.” 

“No…. Meat girl is crazy.” 

[Laughter] 

“And then there was another revealed information in here. [stifled laughter] Okay our final bullet point in this big long confession. Says, ‘lastly, I found a lizard in my dorm the first week of school it crawled through the 2 by 2 hole and we have had it in our bathroom all year.’ I don't know how the lizard relates to meat girl, but wow…”

[Laughter]

“Little lizard pet.” 

“This Bennet Hall situation is shocking.” 

“Oklahoma State granted you a free pet, honestly.” 

“Uh, yeah, you’re welcome.”

“You didn’t even have to pay!”

“Or get it certified.” [5:01]

[Laughter]

“Ummm… On ‘any more information to share’ it says ‘Nope the evil roommate has since moved out and my new friends have rescued me. Lowkey someone should have me on a call on the podcast to share, because that’s just a baby summary.’

“Well, we unfortunately cannot call her because it’s all anonymous, but definitely like leave more confessions in our google forms around campus. Or feel free to email um the Ok State Confessions.”

“Yeah.”

“Any other things we feel about this one?”

“I'm just- I think I'm still in awe. Like, I don't even have anything else to say.”

“The trash closet. And like this went on for a semester.” 

“Like, was she raised in a barn? Obviously.” 

“Barn girl.”

“Barn girl!” 

“Wow. This is the- quite the roommate confession.” [5:51]

“Okay, today for our second confession, we have a shorter one. Um, this confession comes from Stitch Comb. And it was called ‘traumatic’ and ‘crazy.’ The background information we were shared with was that ‘my roommate was in the national guard.” And the roommate confession/ horror story is, ‘my roommate, due to being in the national guard, was not in our dorm very much and sometimes it would be a week without seeing her. So me, being as if it was my own apartment, I, a female, also sick with the flu at the time, was only wearing underwear and no top in the living room trying to print something off at our printer. Where the printer was, was perpendicular to our door, so if anyone walked in, they would immediately see me. I only ever walked around naked like this once, and of course, here I am sitting there trying to figure out the technology, and she walks in. Not only did she walk in, but so did her mom, her brother, and her boyfriend. Thank goodness I had a blanket right next to me, so as soon as I heard that door start to open, I went and grabbed it as quick as I could. Great to say, my flu brain was not quick enough, and they all saw me naked.’ 

[Laughter] 

“‘Any more information to say’ is just ‘# mortified.’”

[Laughter]

“So how does having the flu justify walking around in your underwear, honestly?”

“I feel like it’s, like, valid, but why was your door unlocked?”

“Yeah.” 

“That they could get in so quick.”

“Right.” 

“And it makes sense if it was just in your room and they walked in, but, like, it’s a living room, where like y’all share it? So…”

“And also like you may live alone most of the time, but you do still have a roommate.” [7:30]

“Yeah that’s true. I mean like I wonder... I feel like I can give some grace just because of flu- like flu brain is real, but that's like just insane. Like that’s…”

[Laughter]

“Yeah…” 

“That’s crazy bad luck.” 

“A little too comfortable on the living alone. I get- maybe what you needed printed was like, you needed it really bad.” 

[Laughter]

“It was a need.” 

“It had to happen like right then.” 

“Yeah.”

“Okay we have one more confession today and this one’s from Wentz. It was awful. There’s no background information, and it says, ‘I got a text from my roommate one morning that her on-and-off-again boyfriend was in our room when she woke up. I was in class, and neither of us really ever locked the door. He confessed that he did it often and would let himself into our room and watch her sleep on the regular.’ Um, there’s also no more information shared. Just that her ex boyfriend situation, on-and-off-again, was watching them sleep. 

“Lock your doors!”

“That is insane!”

“Guys, lock your doors.” [8:30]

[Laughter and inaudible]

“Literally, like when you go to sleep at night- I will admit, I don't lock my door during the day, like especially if my roommate is there, but I don't remember to, but at night- like…”

“Yeah,” 

“You gotta lock your door.”

“Lock your door.” 

“These confessions, man…”

“If you could see our faces-

[Laughter]

-When she read that.”

“Oklahoma State, like, what is going on with your roommates?”

“Literally, we need background checks, everytime you get a roommate.” [8:55]

“Honestly.”

“Yeah.” 

“Wow.” 

[OSU band plays]

“That is all the confessions we have today. Another round of secrets coming soon!”

“You got one?” [Snaps]

[OSU band fades out]