Living off campus can make you wish you were here

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Tony Barrett

lean tell you first hand that living off campus is a hassle.

It is not so much problems with my roommates, but the 15 minute ride to and from campus. There have been countless times when I had to leave the party early so I can make the drive home a safe one. By doing this, I seem to lose the respect of my friends. They say I don't hang out as much as I used to, and that I am no fun anymore. I can accept that because I know it's

That is only one aspect of living off campus that gets on my nerves. Another thing that gets to me is the money situation. In the long run, I am saving money, but in the present, I have to come up with a little over $200 at the end of each month. In addition to that I have to buy groceries, bath supplies and countless gallons of gas. If only someone could have been there to see me pricing toilet paper in the supermarket.

Living in an off-campus apartment has its perks. It is nice to go back to a quiet place that I can call my own. Nobody knocks on my door at all hours of the night. Nobody flushes the toilet when you are taking a shower. There is no loud party down the hall when you have a test the next morning. There is no door alarm, and there is nobody there to tell me what I can and

Thumbs up to the Women's basketball team on winning the PAC Championship.

Thumbs down to the adminis- tration for raising the tuition again and again and again ... cannot do. After a while, you start to miss the things that really annoy you.

Why am I telling you this? It is to tell you to think through your living situation next year. There are many aspects of living on campus that people take for granted. Like having toilet paper there all the time, or going to the wigwam to get food flexed compiled by Joe Elliott

Have you ever opened the fridge and tried to make a sandwich consisting of stale bread, marshmallow fluff and mustard? Sometimes it's all you have.

For as much as I complained about resident life last year, I miss it. I miss the spontaneous games of frisbee on the mansion lawn. Even though it does not apply to this year, I miss the all day games of horseshoes and barbeques on a warm day. Most of all I miss the camaraderie of the people living on Thumbs down for making our spring break not only in the midst of winter, but making sure that the only other school that has spring break at the same time as us was the University of Guam.

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I am actually happy to say that I around your apartment and realize will be rejoining my Cabrini farni- that the things you are looking at ly next year in the residence halls. I are yours and nobody else's. will take all the things I learned this Remember that living on campast year living off campus and pus is so much better than the alterapply them to my future living ex- native. It may not be perfect, but perience. it's better. I still wish the resident I have learned much more about life office were nicer to the people being independent. .\.faking your who are already here and under own money and paying your own their care. It seems the first-year bills is a great thing to learn at this students of next year are getting age. better treatment already, and they

There is a greater sense of re- are not even here yet. I wish resisponsibility when living on your dent life did not watch the residents own. It is definitely a different ex- like a nervous hawk. When people penence from the sheltered life at get to college, they are a little more Cabrini. responsible and don't need to be as

If I can suggest an}thing to any- restricted as they are. body, it would be to live either on your own or with some roommates TonyBarrettis a sophomoremajoringin for the summer away from home. English/communication.Heis a staff You learn responsibility, writerforLoquitur.He is alsothe inventor money of such delicaciesas "grilledhamand management and how to survive flutrand the famousmargarinesandwich.

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