18. Happy ending, but yikes

Freshmen year of engineering and I was all of 3 months in.
I had invited the RA over to play some halo. As he walked through the hall he noticed my dorm neighbor had his door open with beer cans everywhere. He shakes his head and reluctantly tells me he can’t game and has to write this guy up.

The night after…. I wake up to a loud knock on my door, thinking it’s some prankster I mumbled “fuck off I’m sleeping” I then hear my RA’s voice “me it’s no joke, open up”

Adrenalin kicks in and I bolt out of bed. It’s the RA with 2 security guards. I was told that they were notified I had “made dangerous sounding comments” and had to search my room.

They found a disassembled airsoft gun (battery+spring) that I was…well….taking apart. A length of rope, and a standard toolbox, and an electronics kit.

This is where it got horrible. The length of rope was wrapped neatly around a water pipe in my room. It was black and purple and my gf at the time was way into bondage and I was too lazy to put it away (note: I was just storing it on the pipe not hanging someone from it)

The security officers claimed it looked like a noose, despite no knots. The electronics kit. They said looked like bomb parts, to which I gave them the exact name of the professor who was helping me with my project. They also took several of my tools from my toolbox.

I was immediately marched to the security office and at 2am had to wait for my parents to pick me up. Talk about the worst car ride ever back home. I had no idea what had happened and I wanted to just throw myself out of the car.
A day later we went back to talk to the administration. It was recognized that I was thrown under the bus, but that was the extent of any sympathy given. I was faced with a full semester suspension or leave and have any judicial records sealed. I chose the latter.

That day, in front of half the dorm, my parents and I packed up the car and left.
I was able to apply and get into a different school for the spring semester. Though without the $35k scholarship I had previously received. But now I’m an employed Civil Engineer and life’s been going pretty well 🙂