Today just happened to be one of those days I wish I could just sleep through. It started with a text from a future roommate from college, urging me to check my email. So I did. Only to find that her and I, have been set in temporary rooms at College Station. Apparently they had overbooked the dorms by about 200 students. Now temporary sounds fine.. Until reading further.. and realizing it meant a storage closet or T.V lounge. So I then spent the remainder of my day calling apartments to see what was available. Resulting in a way too expensive chance. Unfortunatly I only have until the 15th to find an alternative or decide to wait it out before I lose my deposit and 25% of the first lease.
So some advice if this problem ever arises for you, as soon as your child, or your, accepted into your choice of school immediatly put down your deposit for a dorm. And I mean instantly. I only waited a month.
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That's a tough break, but if you accept whatever temporary housing they provide, won't that move you up the waiting list for a real dorm room sooner? I know they aren't the accommodations you hoped for, but it sure would be expensive to get a place off campus. Deposits on an apartment, deposits on utilities, a lease locking you into so many months. I hope it works out better than it looks right now.
ReplyDeleteWhatever you decide, I know it will all be worth it in the end.
Hopefully waiting it out means they would move me to the waiting list, but it just depends on how many of the 200 decide they want to wait it out also. It'll all be worth it for sure. Hopefully it doesn't turn me gray this early in life.
ReplyDeleteIt's just the first of many lessons they don't teach in the regular curriculum. This lesson applies to required textbooks too. As soon as the list is published for the classes you're taking, find those books ...there WILL be a shortage. If they are the same texts used in a previous semester, Half Price Books and Craigslist are a good source for used copies. Also a good place to sell the ones you're done with. You won't get what you paid for them, but you will get a little cash back for the next set.
ReplyDeleteIf you happen to be an avid reader for pleasure also, a friend of mine owns Carousel Paperbacks on Texas Avenue. It's just a block or two north on Texas off of University. Used paperbacks in a variety of genre are half the cover the price and you get trade credit for books you turn in, even if you didn't buy them there. It's the only way I can afford to keep my husband's 'book appetite' satiated. LOL
Wow thanks so much for the advice. Everything is so new to me that I'm trying to absorb as much as I can.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the things I learned in college came from outside the classroom. Just keep your eyes open and guard up. The biggest piece of advice I can think of right now is meet with an advisor in YOUR college of study to make sure that ALL the classes you take go toward your degree and don't end up becoming "elective" fodder.
ReplyDeleteThanks a bunch. I know since I was put in one of the last student conferences it it going to be a challenge to recieve decent classes. It'll all work out though.
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