One of the scariest college guys
Just a little background I haven’t really written anything on Reddit, only some video game posts. So I apologize for any mistakes. Anyway I want to spread awareness to be careful with who you meet in college.
I’m currently a college student starting my third year soon. In my first year there was a guy in a lot of my classes (I’ll call him Jim for the sake of backlash). I’m currently 20 but when I met Jim I was 18, later finding out he was 24. He started to talk to me after seeing that we had a lot of classes together and being the same major (Geology).
Our friendship seemed very normal at first and I never had a bad feeling about him. One day we were walking to a class we had together I started to poke fun at his tan colored had because we would poke fun all the time, and I can’t remember what he said but I said “That’s a weird thing to say” immediately after it felt like the energy switched. He stopped and looked at me and said, “It’s because I’m a serial killer” This was the start of the really weird personality switch up. The worst part about this part was we had a night class together and like the idiot I am, I would walk with him to our cars.
Fast forward there was quite a few things that he had said that should have gotten him kicked out of university. He would say that he’s a nazi and loved those kinda of people. He would continue to find me around campus and sit around me to talk about his racist ideologies. It continued further to him starting to objectify me, inappropriate comments, and utterly disgusting requests. I always had a friend with me after this.
This is where everything went even further downhill.
I was in a computer lab alone one day studying. I heard the slide of a key card (which we all have) opening the door to the room. Of course it was Jim starting in front of the closed door with his hand on the door handle. That is the only exit. I was sitting in the back of the room in the corner (behind me is the wall) the only way to leave is to walk past him but I thought everything would be okay. He sat at the end of the table almost like he was blocking my exit. We started to talk about our end of semester presentation for our mutual class. He was talking about the presentation he was going to do. He wanted to show me the geology of this area he wanted to talk about. Before I could say that I needed to go to class he got up and sat directly next to me. (I was not able to push my way through out of fear of what he would do and him being a lot bigger than me). Everything was fine at first then he started to look at me, get closer and put his arm around the back of my chair. He was talking to me and not looking me in the face but staring at my neck. Like literally staring at my neck and I saw something in his eyes change, like they went black. This went on for minutes until he started to get almost restless. Like he really wanted to do something, whatever that was. I had this overwhelming sick feeling that he was going to strangle me or try to hurt me. I got up and shoved my way through as hard as I could and booked it out of that room. I knew he wanted to hurt me. I feel like my gut instinct saved me from that situation. I practically ran to my next class balling my eyes out.
I ended up not going to that class and went home. He had never tried anything that ballsy. Days after I was told by many people that he was looking for me and for whoever he was asking about me to tell him where I am. This is when I reported everything, the racist remarks, the sexual harassment, him trapping me in the corner of a class. Of course nothing came out of it. The school told my because nothing really physical happened, that they can’t do anything about that situation though this person was actively looking for me. They told me to just call the police and not try to ruin a random guys life.
This caused a huge distrust in already established relationships and new ones. This also caused me to not as easily make friends. I now have a huge fear of this happening again. (Though I go to school with him)
After all of this I wouldn’t hang out with friends on campus or do any work on campus. I went from my classes to home and that was it. That went on for 2 more semesters. Now I don’t see him often and when I do I walk the opposite way. I fear that he might try something in the future. Or I’ll have more classes with him.
Overall, I want people to be more careful around the people that you allow in your life. If they have a weird vibe, it’s your gut telling you something so continue with caution.
So to the guy with the tan hat. Please let’s not meet again.