House Hunting

Highlights of last year's race to find a place to live:

1. One of my roommates demanding that we MUST have a place with a porch. I knew full well that none of us would ever use any of the 3 porches we have access too. And on move-in day i get a call from her asking to switch room assignments because she didn't want the room with the porch anymore. We could have gotten a place way closer if it hadn't been for that demand.

2. Going to view places and promptly wanting to run home crying because we had been to hell and lived to tell the tale.

3. Not signing a lease until February.

4. Being told by one of my roommates that living out in the sticks is actually better than living close to campus. I knew it was bullshit then and know it even better now.

5. Being told by everyone (including myself) that it was a bad idea.

So this house-hunting season, I'm going to try to avoid a repeat of last year.