The Apartment story

Ok so time to bitch...

I am currently an RA and I hate my job. It is stressful for so many reasons, every move you make is constantly being watched you cant even leave the building after 10pm without having to sign in and out and if the max number of RA's have already left your SOL regardless of your plans.  Next is all the programs you have to plan, noticeboards you have to make and door tags because it's not like I have homework.  But my personal favorite is duty nights where at any hour of the night or morning you can be woken up to deal with the stupidity of the human race that lives in your shitty ass dorm but it gets better remember the sign out list I mentioned well if you arent on the list they know you are in the building so if you are on say the 2nd floor and the incident of stupidity is on the 1st floor and say the RA on duty is on the 3rd floor guess who they are going to get first...that's right the RA on the 2nd floor who isnt on duty!Makes sense right? WRONG I need sleep too.

But some times the incidents arent stupidity at its finest some times its serious and you have someone who is trying to take their own life and sometimes they are your friends and sometimes its hard to get over something like that, it's something you carry with you.

Now you look at all of this and think wait arent you suppose to be a student doing student like things?  Why yes, yes I am...does the office of residence life know this? of course not.  All of these things interfere with my studies my social life mental/emotional health and sleep. So all together not a good thing.

So what is the up side to this you might ask?  Well I get a free room and a free meal plan so I am basically going to college for $6000 a year instead of $17000 and because of that price break my parents are paying for everything.

But as you might have guessed given the bitching and the title of this post I want an apartment a single apartment.  I found on that is huge for one person and is 417 a month plus electric and water if I conserve electricity and water and be a hippie I wont break $500 a month which I can do so for a 9 and a half month lease we are looking around $4750 which isnt bad for one person if you think about it, it is actually about the same as what my boyfriend is paying for his 4 person apartment and he doesn't have as big a space relatively  speaking.  Now after my last paycheck from my summer job I will have about 2000 in the bank, if I work all semester and get a job 2nd semester I think I will be just fine and might not even need a loan but I could always take out $1000 just to cover some things and pay it back during the year.

But my parents dont like the idea at all