My research question is the following: Does living on-campus or off-campus has an impact of how students finance their leisure activities while attending MUN?
My interview procedure had a good atmosphere, it had a good flow with all three of the interviewers and it was easy to carry along and get more information that made it more interesting. I did not exceed the time give for any of the three interviews and the three persons I interviewed were pretty open to talk about their experiences in their past and current places of residence. The last person I interviewed did not want her name put in the project and I respected that since is one of the ethic agreements I was working with, she had no trouble giving me her age and place of residence …show more content…
My hypothesis was that students would spend more money on leisure activities while living off-campus. But my interviewers said the completely opposite of that. All three of my interviews said that living on-campus is a way to spend more money on leisure activities because you are always on the go and there are always people willing to go do this activities with you. Now I will give a quote from one of the interviews; “They do, friends living in residence are always on the go every day. There are different activities and different people to hangout with. People living off campus have to make an extra effort to go hangout with friends that also living off campus in a different part of town.” The other two interviews said something similar to this. They believe that while you live on-campus you are more prone to spend more money on leisure activities because most of the activities have been pre-paid and you are encourage to do this activities as a form to bond with your housemates, which is the opposite if you live in a house with one roommate because there are no pre-paid activities and there is no one encouraging you to bond with your housemate. When I started this project I wanted to learn if it was worth it moving off campus and having more time for yourself rather than live in residence and be always “hanging out” like all of my interviewers said it happened, and spending more money on leisure …show more content…
For this I had a really good point by my last interview she said the following: “In a way it depends on how many hours you are working versus people asking their parents to send them money for leisure activities whenever they ask for it.” All of my interviewers said that it does not matter where is your place of residence if you work and spend your own money on your leisure activities you get a feeling of satisfaction but if you run out of money and ask your parents for it they would also provide even if they are struggling for money. On my list of codes it shows that two of my codes are separated by one count and the other by three from the lowest one, the way I interpret this is that because it is a research involving leisure activities and the place of residence they have to be pretty close together plus those who lived in residence have an actual idea how much money they spent during their years on on-campus housing. I believe there is is a correlation between the amount of leisure activities people take part in and their place of residence, because if you live in close proximity of a 100+ people you are more tempted to go out to the mall, go to the movies and go out partying even if that means stay in the residence and party there but there is always more than one person willing to have fun with you and you
My interview procedure had a good atmosphere, it had a good flow with all three of the interviewers and it was easy to carry along and get more information that made it more interesting. I did not exceed the time give for any of the three interviews and the three persons I interviewed were pretty open to talk about their experiences in their past and current places of residence. The last person I interviewed did not want her name put in the project and I respected that since is one of the ethic agreements I was working with, she had no trouble giving me her age and place of residence …show more content…
My hypothesis was that students would spend more money on leisure activities while living off-campus. But my interviewers said the completely opposite of that. All three of my interviews said that living on-campus is a way to spend more money on leisure activities because you are always on the go and there are always people willing to go do this activities with you. Now I will give a quote from one of the interviews; “They do, friends living in residence are always on the go every day. There are different activities and different people to hangout with. People living off campus have to make an extra effort to go hangout with friends that also living off campus in a different part of town.” The other two interviews said something similar to this. They believe that while you live on-campus you are more prone to spend more money on leisure activities because most of the activities have been pre-paid and you are encourage to do this activities as a form to bond with your housemates, which is the opposite if you live in a house with one roommate because there are no pre-paid activities and there is no one encouraging you to bond with your housemate. When I started this project I wanted to learn if it was worth it moving off campus and having more time for yourself rather than live in residence and be always “hanging out” like all of my interviewers said it happened, and spending more money on leisure …show more content…
For this I had a really good point by my last interview she said the following: “In a way it depends on how many hours you are working versus people asking their parents to send them money for leisure activities whenever they ask for it.” All of my interviewers said that it does not matter where is your place of residence if you work and spend your own money on your leisure activities you get a feeling of satisfaction but if you run out of money and ask your parents for it they would also provide even if they are struggling for money. On my list of codes it shows that two of my codes are separated by one count and the other by three from the lowest one, the way I interpret this is that because it is a research involving leisure activities and the place of residence they have to be pretty close together plus those who lived in residence have an actual idea how much money they spent during their years on on-campus housing. I believe there is is a correlation between the amount of leisure activities people take part in and their place of residence, because if you live in close proximity of a 100+ people you are more tempted to go out to the mall, go to the movies and go out partying even if that means stay in the residence and party there but there is always more than one person willing to have fun with you and you