Imagine yourself being a new high school graduate that just received your accepted letter from your dream university. You are blasting with excitement as you read the letter that you cannot woke to get everything you need in order. So you start contacting advisors to found out what classes you need to take and even applying for on campus housing, because the university is in another city or even state. After finally getting everything done such as classing, meal plans, and even housing pick, the summer is ending. So now you only have to pack up your stuff and get in your car and head to school. As you pull up to the campus housing department to go in and receive your key because you have signed a lease and confirmed your placement. Then the
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I graduated from TWU (Texas Woman’s University), where I worked in the housing department for three years. My positions ranged from office assistant all the way up till assistant director, so I know first-hand the steps of working in housing. At TWU when the university would accepted more student then there were housing, the housing department removed some of the housing restriction, such as making it mandatory that freshman stay on campus. Also we placed limitations on other areas during with housing such as freshmen could only stay in the dorm, sophomores and juniors had their own apartment area, and senior and graduated stayed in the apartment that off campus but contact through the university. Also when that was not enough space, the housing department signed a contact with nearby hotels that had shuttle. Students would live in the hotels with a hired university staff member until rooms on campus would become available. As well as some of the rooms in the dorms would become tripled. Even though the students would complain about the situation of living three to a room or in a hotel, at least they had a room to sleep in.
This is why I do not understand why TSU head of housing assistant would state “it is a personal choice to sleep in your car”. No this is a situation that was caused by the housing department. They could have made other arrangements so students would not have to live in their cars. Students living in their car are not the only problem TSU housing
I graduated from TWU (Texas Woman’s University), where I worked in the housing department for three years. My positions ranged from office assistant all the way up till assistant director, so I know first-hand the steps of working in housing. At TWU when the university would accepted more student then there were housing, the housing department removed some of the housing restriction, such as making it mandatory that freshman stay on campus. Also we placed limitations on other areas during with housing such as freshmen could only stay in the dorm, sophomores and juniors had their own apartment area, and senior and graduated stayed in the apartment that off campus but contact through the university. Also when that was not enough space, the housing department signed a contact with nearby hotels that had shuttle. Students would live in the hotels with a hired university staff member until rooms on campus would become available. As well as some of the rooms in the dorms would become tripled. Even though the students would complain about the situation of living three to a room or in a hotel, at least they had a room to sleep in.
This is why I do not understand why TSU head of housing assistant would state “it is a personal choice to sleep in your car”. No this is a situation that was caused by the housing department. They could have made other arrangements so students would not have to live in their cars. Students living in their car are not the only problem TSU housing