We all came to Utah State University as strangers, hoping we could get a long and occasionally hold a conversation, maybe even try and be friends. When we arrived at the LLC in Building E Room #201 the worst possible scenario happened...We all became best friends. Best friends who spend nights up late talking, watching movies, and laughing uncontrollably. My advice, if you can, become roommates with girls you don't like.
Living with seven other girls isn't the most glamorous living situation. There is hair everywhere, in the sink and shower, it's on the floor, in the couch cushions...sorry it's gross but it's true. We run out of toilet paper extremely fast. There is always dishes in the sink no matter how many times you do the dishes you come back and there are more. Living with seven other girls that you enjoy being around can get out of hand, we are told to be quiet at least once a night. Our laughing echos through the halls of the dorm and apparently through the floor to the room below us. The constant talk of boys and waiting up for roommates to come home from dates to get all the good details calls for some late weeknights.
You wouldn't think girls ate as much as growing teenage boys you're right we don't...we eat more than them. We eat constantly throughout the day and if we are bored on a Thursday night we will go hit up Buffalo Wild Wings even though we just ate at the marketplace an hour before, or one of our favorites is to make a late night Walmart run and come home with a haul of mud masks and endless piles of junk food. We get cookie dough, chips, ice cream, candy and popcorn.
These things wouldn't be problems in a dorm full of acquaintances, sure there may be some hair and a few dishes but mostly the girls would stay to themselves and make sure they cleaned up their things. When you live with seven of your newest best friends you become comfortable very quickly and you don't feel the need to clean up, thinking this won't bother anyone we are all friends. Wrong it bothers everyone.
So here's some tips to not only living with seven other girls which is hard enough but to living with seven other girls that have become some of your best friends.
- Tip #1 When the sink is full of dishes, wash them. They may not be yours but at some point your roommates have done your dishes too, and this will create a better environment and less conflict or awkward tension at the next movie night.
- Tip #2 Be able to distinguish between weeknights and weekend nights. Even when your roommates are up late talking about juicy stuff, go to bed. You will thank yourself in the morning when you get up for you 7:30 am class. And then when its the weekend stay up all night if you want to and get caught up on all the latest gossip.
- Tip #3 Limit yourself to 3 maybe 4 meals a day. I mean don't make yourself miserable but also don't eat a small meal every hour and snack on food til 11 pm the freshman 15 will find you quickly.
Rhetorical Notes: I wrote this blog for the purpose of being able to share my experiences at college. The audience is my roommates because we want to have a place where all of our memories are written down. And also any other college students or young girls wanting to come to college. The purpose of this blog is to talk about what college life is like freshman year and what it is like to live with so many girls. It is a totally different experience that is hard to really prepare yourself for so this blog can give people some insight into what it is really like. This blog contains some tips and some stories of what life is like in college.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about my experiences in a blog form because I thought that it would be more laid back and I wouldn't have to be so formal. Because a lot of what eight girls do in college isn't always formal. I also felt like people would be able to relate to it easier if it was online and easily accessible. I used pathos by sharing personal stories and trying to be able to have people relate to the experiences that I am having. I think the tips that I would write at the end of my post were my logos, they seemed logical to me and I think my audience would find them logical as well. I feel like the ethos in my blog is me giving some back round of us as roommates and that we are college freshman really experiencing these things pretty much everyday.