Hello, everyone.
Welcome to my blog. When it comes to accommodation in school, we have all had our own fair share of the hurdles and struggles associated with it. I attended a boarding school before living there, so I have had an experience with living in the hostel and the fun that comes with it, but the fact that everything is public and shared made me not like living in hostels. A hostel gives you little to no privacy and exposes one to dangers like losing properties if not careful enough. One can move into the hostel with a lot of properties and probably leave with nothing; I have seen it happen countless times, and as much as it teaches you how to control your properties, it is a bad experience when you are on the receiving end.
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With my experience from high school, I never wanted to stay on campus because staying on campus meant staying in a school hostel, and school hostels always come with rules: no irons allowed, only a stove was allowed. Living in a school hostel does not cut the student some slack, and I did not want all of that, but school had other plans for me. I gained admission into college and realized it was school rule that every first-year student lived in the hostel. They made it in such a way that only those who had paid the hostel fee could actually pay for school, which made me pay and stay in the school hostel during my first year, and it exposed me to more horrible experiences.
I was allocated to a room, and I met people I didn't even know, and they introduced themselves as my roommates. We were four per room with our bathroom in our room, which made me feel better; at least it is not like my secondary school days where the entire hostel uses the same bathroom, at least a little privacy here. I am not going to lie; living there was fun, as you get to make friends and get to know a lot of other people, but in college, a hostel is only fun when you have the right roommates, people who cooperate. I saw other guys in their rooms do things separately; everyone cooks and lives just on their own and acts like the other guys there don't exist, but we decided to do things differently, and I regretted it in the end.
There was this particular guy in the room who acts like he is the wisest person to ever exist. Whenever we want to cook, it is either he does not have money or would act uninterested, and even if the food is ready, you see him coming down to eat. The same guy claimed to be the last born in a family of 8 with over 4 girls, so he does not know how to do house chores, so keeping the room clean was just on the 3 of us until I had it to my neck and told everyone to be doing things on their own as I was no longer interested in living in unity and togetherness.
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That is how our room became one of those that do things separately, and it saved me a lot of stress; that is when I realized why the other guys were doing things separately. Living off campus offers you the privacy you need, as well as cuts you some slack to own some home appliances that make life easier and more enjoyable.