Personal Narrative: Why I Lived In Edwards Hall

Everyone will have to search for housing at some point in their life but for most JMU students this process begins after only a few weeks of living in a dorm your freshman year of college. The thought of signing a lease this early into the school year with friends that you have only known since coming to JMU can be very exciting and scary at the same time. there is such high demand for off campus housing that they tend to fill up very fast and early in the school year. Most students at JMU will only live in a dorm their freshman year and then move into apartments for the rest of their college experience. This is a helpful guide for students looking for housing including my own experience signing a lease, whether living off campus is cheaper than living on campus, and what your options are for living off campus.

Although it's really far from home my Aunt Tonya lives in Illinois and I could stay with her while going to school. Staying with her would make me feel more at home than living in a dorm room would. Missouri State is five hours away from my hometown and I don’t know anyone that is going there. Therefore, I would have to stay with someone I don’t know and I am not comfortable with that. St. Louis University is only one hour away from my home so I could stay at home and drive back and forth.

I plan to room in Ben Reiffel, one of the newer dormitories on campus, which costs $2,657.40 per semester. If I were to stay in housing conditions of a similar level of comfort and contemporariness at USD, I would have to stay in Coyote Village, which costs $2,890.65 per semester. There may not appear to be a large difference between Ben Reiffel and Coyote Village, but these expenses can quickly add up for college students. Ben Reiffel offers many amenities for students including kitchens, laundry rooms, and fireplaces on every floor; air-conditioning; and vaulted ceilings. Along with comfortable rooms, SDSU offers many dining selections and I found SDSU’s meal plan options to be much simpler to navigate than USD’s. Some SDSU dining choices that USD lacks include Panda Express, Extreme Pita, Erbert & Gerbert’s, and Starbucks. SDSU Dining emphasizes healthy choices and it offers many resources such as nutritional information for its menu items and wellness education. These amenities are especially useful for students who may find it difficult to make healthy choices amidst both the bustle of college and the temptation of the Dairy Bar’s world famous ice

Of course, there is always that option of getting an apartment or home outside of the school, but it is always fun to be in one of the school’s dorms. There is residence hall, which is like the dorms on campus. Then there is family student housing which is for students with a family. There is also a daycare center for the little ones of the students for when they have to go to class. On campus, they also have apartments that you could rent instead of the normal dorms. Newly admitted single students are guaranteed on campus housing for at least their first two years. As long as you keep up with all the housing deadlines and requirements, you are guaranteed housing for all four years. UCR has great housing options for all students who are going to attend the

On-Campus living will provide you many opportunities to enhance and tailor your college experience. You can get involved with UTEP EDGE or CORE, and build upon your leadership capacity or participate in the many activities presented by staff and residents together. Residence Life can play an important role in enriching the academic experiences you will have at UTEP by providing

SDSU encourages all students to live on campus for two years and provides a variety of options for students to choose from. The university maintains housing for more than 4,100 students, including residence halls, houses, and living communities. Residence halls vary from triple to single occupancy, and are coed with gender specific rooms and bathrooms. Living communities are themed to provide housing to like-minded students. Students who reside on-campus have access to cable, the internet, laundry facilities, free membership to the Aztec recreation center, and many more

The house on Plum Street was a tall and narrow building littered with rain battered fliers and miscellaneous bills like a house shaped pinata. A paper taped to the front door of a house can mean any number of things; a local bluegrass band was hanging fliers for a gig and wanted to get the word out or a very persistent Jehovah's Witness wanted to get the Good Word out or you haven't paid your mortgage in two years and the bank is foreclosing your home, for example. In this case it was all of the above.

I’ve just arrived in Washington D.C and departed from the Addison Road. Now I’m making my way towards the bus stop, then from there I’m on my way to the airport. The sun was shining much brighter outside of the train; however, the luminosity of the sky did not reflect well the temperature. Walking, what should have only taken 5 minutes, felt like an eternity. Once you’ve been traveling for long enough, you start to pick up on some things. For starters, the bus drivers start to get getting uglier, and uglier the farther you descend south. Also the activities you do to pass the time differ depending on the mode of transportation. I’d say your mental state of mind has more to do with how fast time flies than anything. You don’t expect to be on

Although living on campus can be fun, not everyone has the desire to participate in expensive, time-consuming college housing incentive programs. If you are enrolled at the University of Dayton in Ohio and want to live near campus, there are affordable and convenient options available such as landlord housing. Here Advantage Student Rentals, the leading provider of homes for rent to college students near the University of Dayton, shares three benefits of landlord housing near the university.

What’s the one thing that every student worries about when heading to college? Money. And college requires a lot of it. But if you are adding on campus living you add not just the cost of books and tuition each semester but the cost of housing which can cost about the same, or more. Students from different campuses who already have this policy of on campus living, can see the financial constraints already within living on campus. Joseph Luther a student a Georgetown would pay about 14,024 per year for room and board, that not including tuition, books, and essential needs. He found a place with a couple of friends off campus that could save him thousands of dollars a semester and had more space than the dorm rooms could not possibly offer.

Before I took Taekwondo I was a quiet, shy, and introvert type of person, I never really could talk to people, I would always felt like I would annoy everyone I tried talking to. I always felt like an outcast in my own community, I never felt included in anything the other kids my age would do. I always felt like I was not normal and that it was a bad thing to be different because nobody ever encouraged me to do my best and nobody ever supported me nor ever believed in me. And all the negativity really got to me at some point during my childhood and I fell into a deep depression stage one where not only the kids around me were tormenting me but where I tormented myself. I didn’t feel like I had anyone to talk to, I always felt so alone like

Student life is quickly moving away from low-budget, no frills accommodations to resort-style living options with amenities that include sleek, modern furnishings, private bathrooms – some with Jacuzzis – in-unit washer/dryer combinations and educational centers that blend learning and living activities. As more universities partner with private property management firms to meet changing expectations, the student housing market has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry.

While higher education has a vast and complex history, one particular trend that is of interest to me is residence life. Housing and residence life is an area that is very near and dear to my heart. It is how I got my start in student affairs. I started out as a student staff member by being involved in multiple housing organizations and then becoming a resident assistant. During my time as a student staff member, I found my passion for student development within the residence halls. Now, I am again working in residence life as a graduate assistant hall director.

You are likely going to start looking at apartment complexes and houses around the area that make you feel more at home and are way more appealing than what you are currently living in. Not only are you removing yourself to such quick access to your university and its resources, but now you are spending your money elsewhere, when it could be going right back to your college if they would have provided you a more positive experience your first year. I know this because I went through it. Living in the dorms has not been the greatest experience, and all I can think about is how I can not wait to get out and live in a more appealing apartment next year. Of course I could move into an upperclassmen dorm building, or even the on-campus apartments, but I definitely will not be doing that after the campus housing experience my university has provided me this year. My dorm room and building SCREAM boring and outdated. It has affected me and my experience so much that I am choosing to spend hundreds of dollars more someplace else just because I can not stand it anymore.

Most incoming students find it difficult to decide whether to live in the dorms or apartments. This is either because they have no one to genuinely explain how reality is in both dorms and apartments. In addition to that, the USI website does not also provide enough details about services and activities in dorms and apartments. This always leads incoming students to make wrong choices on where to live on campus. Therefore, with the information I gathered from personal understanding, observation, and interviewing a dozen students, I managed to come up with explanations of why dorms would be more favorable to new students. Some of these reasons include proximity to classes, facilities, learning environment and activities.