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The Five Comforts You Say Good-Bye To When You Move Off Campus

It's not all as easy as you'd think.

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The Five Comforts You Say Good-Bye To When You Move Off Campus
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So you’ve finally found yourself able to move off campus and get a place of your own with your closest friends, and you couldn’t be more excited. The freedom, the privacy, and all the great memories you’ll create in your first place are all great things, but you have to admit that there might be just a few things that you might miss about living on campus.

1. Somebody Else Making Your Food

Once you’re off campus, you’re on your own. For the most part that is. Sure you might still have a meal plan or some dining dollars to spend on campus, but it's part of the pros (or cons) about living in your own place. As nice as it is to cook what you want, when you want it, you have to admit that walking into a dining hall full of pre-cooked options is one thing that is so easy.

2. Somebody Else Cleaning Your Bathroom

Sure your bathroom will be decorated much more nicely with candles, cute towels and rugs, and some cliché decorative sign to hang above the toilet. But after a week of multiple girls doing their hair and makeup daily, or a group of guys showering after practice and leaving their towels or clothes all over, you are going to miss the luxury of someone else doing the dirty work. You’ll miss hotel dorm room. It is now you and your housemates' sole responsibility to scrub the toilet, wash the shower curtain, take out the trash, and mop the floors.

3. Your Non-Roommate Friends Being Right Down The Hall

While on campus if your friends weren’t living in the same room as you they may have just been a room or two down the hall, requiring only a shout or two second walk to chat with them. This may no longer be the case. Unless these friends are living in the same house or apartment as you, you might find yourself having to walk a block or even drive to see them other than in class. The convenience of walking two doors down or a flight up is no longer there.

4. Having Multiple Washers And Dryers

Your residence hall was probably stocked full of washers and dryers, allowing for your laundry to pile up and then get it done all at once, having multiple loads going at the same time. But now you’re either faced with having one washer and one dryer to share between 3 plus people, or you have to sacrifice your quarters for multiple loads at one time at the laundromat down the street.

5. Not Worrying About How Much Water Or Electricity You Use

When you found yourself living in a college residence hall you weren’t seeing how much water you used when you took that 45 minute shower or how much it cost when you left your lights on all day while you were at class, but you are now. You find yourself seeing how fast you can shampoo and condition your hair, or patrolling ever room before leaving for the day to make sure all the lights are turned off, and you find yourself missing when that wasn’t a care in the world.

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