Rat City: The unavoidable epidemic has hit our dorms

Over the last few weeks six BU students discovered that they had an unwanted guest in their suite-style dormitory on 1019 Commonwealth Avenue.

Two of the roommates notices a gray blur dash across the room without giving much thought to it.

“We kept it in back of our minds but didn’t talk about it because we genuinely thought we were imagining things…then we saw another gray blur dash into the bathroom.”

The culprit was finally revealed a week later when one of the other roommate’s mom came to visit.

“She screamed when she saw it. We knew in that moment we were not going crazy. It was confirmed. We had a mouse living with us.”

Thinking it was just one, the residents had mouse traps put in and managed to trap their tiny friend.

“We rejoiced thinking it was over, so we called res life and they came in and disposed of the dead mouse.”

However, their nightmare didn’t end there.

“The next day we were doing homework and the traps went off.

“We were so thankful to have accidentally left the traps out, but then we were all like, “Oh god, this is actually a problem.”

They notified the university about their ongoing rodent issue in the hope of hiring an exterminator, but the situation wasn’t resolved.

Instead, it multiplied day by day.

“A few days ago, I went to take the trash out, and a mouse jumped out on my arm.

“I was freaked out, so I called res life, and they came in and brought different traps because they apparently ran out of their regular ones and they only had the inhumane sticky traps. The worst part about it? The sticky traps were old and didn’t even work…

“Then yesterday Julian squealed… he had seen another one. And just so you know, our room is really clean, like it’s not a shit-show whatsoever.

“He saw a mouse in our trashcan and it really freaked us out. We got a larger trashcan and dumped the smaller one out into it, and we saw not one BUT TWO mice in there.

If you lost count, that’s four mice over the course of two weeks.

The boys in the mice-infested suite took a comical approach to their issue via Twitter and Snapchat, using the hashtag #justicefor408 which caught the attention of BU.

 

The infestation has now been contained and the guys are pretty content with the way the university handled it, although they weren’t quick to fix it, leaving some of the residents too grossed out to even stay the night.

“After we tweeted everything today, BU sent these exterminators in and they found a hole in our wall and I guess a pregnant mother came in and gave birth to the mice in our room.

“I don’t know what took them so long to do what they did and find the root of the problem. Danny and Nico didn’t even sleep in our room last night because they were so disgusted by it. Nobody wants to live with mice…”

But it seems they weren’t the only suite with a struggle as the exterminators told them other residents of 1019 Commonwealth Avenue have been complaining.

A suite in 1019 costs $10,780 a year. You would think that that much money should buy you a mouse-free room.

Thanks to Shane Staudle (QSB 2018), Nico Bermudez (QSB 2018), Adam Sheikali (CAS 2018), Daniel Foen (CGS 2018), Bjorn Kammholz (QSB 2018), and Julian Caparros (CGS 2018) for letting us in on their story.