Dormitory

It is that time of year again. Incoming freshmen at Northern Illinois University are excited and ready to sign up for housing. Picking where they are going to be living is one of the first choices they make on their road to their new independent college student life. Yet Wait! These new incoming freshmen come upon a roadblock. The mandatory freshman residence policy the school had implemented. First-year students must live in the on-campus residence halls unless they are over twenty-one, married…

Before I applied for college, my mom told me that if I got accepted into University of Chicago and another school, I should definitely choose the other one. That is because among the Chinese student society, the University of Chicago kind of has a notorious name. Although it offers one of the best undergraduate programs in this country, it is the environment that people can go into the campus anytime they like. And those would pose threat to students’ safety. Of course, the fact that it is…

Many high school grads are face with many struggles leaving high school. Like where to go college, how will they pay for school, and where to live while there. Most college offer two options to live on campus or off of campus. Some universities have many different types of housing styles. The housing styles range from normal two person dorms to off campus houses. The price of housing can depending on where the students decides to live. When choosing housing students need to look at how college…

Persuasion is a constant and rather successful method of getting people to do certain things. We are constantly being influenced and also influencing other people around us. There are several principles that help explain why humans sometimes irrationally do certain things that they wouldn’t normally do. Three of this several principles include the paradox of choice (which proves that when giving a lot of choice for any particular item, satisfaction decreases and sales decreases), scarcity (which…

stream of water only to have to get back out into the freezing cold temperatures in their rooms becomes difficult. The Director of Housing should not be punishing the students who live at Blanco Hall for the university’s failure to improve one of its dormitory…

In the musical “Where’s Charley”, the main character, Charley, dresses as his aunt, Don Lucia Dalvidorese, to chaperone his and his roommates dates. The show was set in the late 19th century and for the two young women to stay with two young men they had to have a chaperone. Charley’s aunt was supposed to arrive the morning of the lunch date, however she was not there. By using the costume from his school performance, Charley dressed as a woman and pretended to be his aunt, after Jack gave…

A new journey began for me this past August. As of August, I officially moved into my first college dorm room in order to start the path to my future. By doing so, I have given myself the opportunity to be educated at a higher level than high school, which will allow me to learn all that I need to in order to be successful and eventually work in the career of my dreams. However, this isn’t any college dorm room I moved into. This is one of many college dorm rooms that lie in Lincoln…

What I Learned From the Fire During finals week, you learn to expect the unexpected, which was proven quite true for me while I was studying for my last, and arguably hardest two tests of my freshman year. I was only days away of sleeping in and binge watching “The Office” without worrying about classes. I could not wait to get out of the dorms and back in my own bed for the summer, but for now I was frantically studying. I was sitting up against the wall on my uncomfortable dorm bed with my…

All Because of Rent Once upon a time, there were two people having a wonderful life. Professor Plum was at his luxurious residence on February 6, 2016 just working in his hi-tech office. He was 5´3, had brown hair, blue eyes, 210 lbs., and always wore purple. There was a certain someone on her way to see him. Her name was Casey Johnson and she was 5´1 and had lovely long blonde hair. Casey just entered the best college in the world (in her own opinion). She just entered the one and only…

This was horrible. A class about monster tracking...great. I pull up on my black silk gloves they were a part of my uniform, along with a black and red plaid skirt, black saddle shoes, white knee high socks, and a white sweater. I hated it, but I had no choice, nobody can know how different I am. “Right class, what do you do when you see a monster,” asked Mrs. Shard in an annoying high-pitched voice that made my ears bleed. I wanted to flinch, but I couldn't for no one heard what I did.…