I started uni in september, moved into halls and so moved in with a nice bunch of people. I get on really well with one girl in particular, because we're both doing the same course and in the first term we helped each other out a lot and our grades were ok, not brilliant because, being new to uni we were going out a lot etc.

However, just before christmas she had a few set backs, she got tonsillitis and her grandmother died, so she ended up missing a lot of work, but got extenuating circumstances and could hand her work in after christmas, so that was ok.

i didnt see her or speak to her much over christmas, but after we got back we were assigned our first proper peice of work and i deicided i was going to start putting real effort in. We worked together on this bit of work for a while but the night before it was due she came to my room to tell me she wasn't going to do it! its 20% of our grade for this module, you need 40% to pass, and if you fail a module it can get you into serious bother.

anyway, it was only one bit of work that couldn't hurt, she still had 80% to work with so fine, but now she's skipped another one, thats another 20%. I spoke to her and told her to go get help and she said she'd rather bury her head in the sand (her words not mine).

She goes out 3 nights a week, which isn't that much here, but it seems to take her three or four days to recover afterwards, or theres boy troubles so she can't focus. She a year younger than me because i took the year out and i understand the novelty to getting drunk and not having parents around hasn't quite worn off yet, but it's taking the piss, she's going to throw away her degree :/

TL;DR: flatmate is failing, won't accept help/talk to someone who can help, don't know what to do!

If you're really worried about it, bring it up to one of the academic advisors/counselors, or your RA if you have them. Otherwise, it's her choice, there's not much you can do. If she wants to flunk out of Uni, it's all her, and she can't blame anybody but herself.