Everyone knows the feeling. After spending upwards of five months living in a dorm, you finally go home or are invited back to a friend's house, and you experience the joy that is spending a few days in a house after suffering through dorms. Here are 11 amazing reasons staying in a house is 1000 times more amazing than living in dorms.
1. There are real stairs.
And by stairs, I mean not covered in linoleum and/or vomit. The kind of stairs that, when you walk in the door, you see them and feel like you're at home.
2. There's a kitchen stocked with food.
You have a fridge that isn't the size of a small cabinet and you can actually cook things in something other than a microwave. Also, parents always buy better food. I have no idea why, but the groceries my mom buys are always way better than the ones I buy myself.
3. There's a TV that lets you watch something other than Netflix.
Ask any of my friends. I'm always watching Netflix, no matter what time of day it is. But you can only watch all the rom-coms and sitcoms they have so many times. Also, it's nice to be able to watch the news every once in a while.
4. You get to sleep in a bed that's not an extra-long twin with a terrible mattress.
Even sharing a queen bed is better than sleeping alone in a twin shoved against a wall. Also, the sheets at home are way better than the Bed, Bath, and Beyond pieces of fabric that you probably haven't washed in a few months.
5. It's actually clean.
For some reasons, dorm rooms are like magnets for dust, bugs, and trash. All of it piles up until the bottom of your socks turn black after walking across the room, but none of that happens when you're in a house, as there's normally someone who's not a college kid there to keep it clean.
6. You get to interact wit
h adults that aren't your professors.
Talking to professors is great, but talking to someone over the age of 40 who doesn't hold the fate of your GPA in their hands is really nice. Even if they're not your parents, it's still nice to talk about somewhat civilized things with people who'll understand what you're talking about.
7. You get to drink out of actual glasses, not red solo cups.
Same goes for plates and bowls too. In a house, the silverware doesn't snap when you try to cut something, and you don't have to eat cereal out of a plastic cup.
8. You get to drink real coffee.
Keurigs are nice, but coffee from home that isn't brewed on top of your mini fridge always tastes better. Also, being able to brew large quantities at once is way nicer than making one cup at a time.
9. When you're hungry, you can make actual food. You don't have to reach for a bag of chips or cereal.
Snacking in college dorms can get kind of gross. I've even resorted to eating peanut butter and jelly on a spoon because I ran out of bread. In a house, there are definitely more options than you could store in the drawers of your desk.
10. You get to use a real shower without shoes on.
There's no mold on the walls, the chances of you seeing a cockroach are significantly lower, and you don't have to carry a shower caddy with you. Also the temperature doesn't rocket to 200 degrees when someone flushes the toilet in a house.
11. You can control the temperature of the room you're in.
In dorms, it can be boiling hot, and all you can do to fix the temperature is open the window or turn on the fan. Likewise, it can be freezing, and there's nothing you can do about that either. At least at home, you can control the thermostat.
