Andi

Living off campus in a college town can typically lead to some pretty sub-par housing. Living in the dorms, you’re spoiled. You may not think so while you’re living there, but as soon as you move off campus you’ll be missing the simple life. You can have the air and heat on any temperature you like, without worrying about an energy bill. Not to mention, you don’t have a monthly rent to worry about. Same goes for food. Who needs to cook and go grocery shopping anyways?

Alright, that makes living off-campus living sound super terrible. It’s not, I promise. Not all off-campus housing is as bad as I am currently making it out to be. It’s really just what you can afford. But besides the cost, it is a significant change. One of the biggest things I’ve faced living out of the dorms, and out of my sorority house, it basic home maintenance (and rent). Sure, we aren’t expected to do it all ourselves, but it is difficult to get our landlord to fix things sometimes. Especially when the problem is outside. All throughout the winter our front stairs were literally disintegrating. At one point, a giant chunk of one of our steps was missing! But because of all the horrible winter weather, it was months before anything could get done. But FINALLY our stairs our fixed! They were seriously becoming a death trap. Just check out this before and after photo I took:

Needless to say, new stairs were a necessity. Every time I walked down the old set, I felt like I was going to sprain my ankle! And of course, once we actually have new stairs, I manage to sprain my ankle.

At least I didn’t sprain it on our stairs? I was running up my neighbor’s stairs and managed to twist it just the right way. I’ve never sprained my ankle or broken any bones before, so to me this was a new concept. I had no idea how to wrap my ankle. Thankfully student health helped me out, and showed me how to wrap it properly, as well as how I should be taking care of it. So hopefully in 2 weeks time I’ll be good as new! Just in time for summer to start right? But for now, you’ll probably see me hobbling around campus until it gets better. In the meantime I can promise you I won’t be running barefoot up my neighbor’s staircase anytime soon. Better safe than sorry!

Go Hawks!

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