The Importance Of Living On Campus

The Birds chirp as you walk down the asphalt path that cuts through Monroe park on the VCU Campus your back pack heavy with books as you make your way to class. You are happy it’s your first day of class, but even though you’re nervous, you’re happy knowing that you are starting college and are going to make something of yourself. As you step into the class you see your peers all sitting there waiting for the professor, making your way to your seat you barely get seated when he comes in with a flourish, and announces his name and his expectations for you and your peers. You go from class to class that week with much of the same experience for each class, your dorm, a one room oasis for you to study and relax in is clean and relatively modern with little sounds coming from your neighbor’s dorm on either side. As the week draws to a close, you begin to wonder if this is real, did you actually make it into VCU, and is your college life going to be as great as this first week the entire time? Will it? Maybe what I have just presented to …show more content…
Beginning with a search on Zillow, the site yielded “114 results” we can suppose that apartments in the fan are not a hard to come by commodity. Despite this, is it an easy feat to get one? I posed this question to Ryan McVey and his response was as follows, “It takes some work, but can be very doable. The prices range very greatly depending upon a number of factors, including number of bedrooms. Costs around, maybe six-hundred to seven-hundred dollars” So getting an off-campus apartment won’t be too much even if it does seem a bit high. So now you have your new apartment will this affect your social life on campus? Well, according to Ryan, “apartment on or near campus is about the same as if you live in a dorm” so you won’t be seeing any real shift in your social life since your apartment will be close enough to not affect if someone can come see you or hang