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cosette tsai
@cosette · 4:26

Student life wednesdays- housing problem

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But I guess you want to find a good group of people to live with and you don't want to find sketchy people to move in with because depending on your contract, you're stuck with them for a while. Yeah. And also, I don't understand the twelve months versus the ten month leases. Technically, if you're not over the summer, you don't need the twelve months. But do I take all my stuff? Home can be like, different places

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Jas (They/them) Martin
@studentlife · 1:22
I have an incredible room that I absolutely love, and my roommates are, like, ridiculously quiet and clean and super nice. I almost don't even want to say it out loud because I don't want to jinx anything. But I've definitely had brutal living situations before where I was desperate to, like, for my lease hand. But yeah, searching for housing as a student is weird. I kind of wish there was more resources for students
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@JonathanGossett
Jonathan Gossett
@JonathanGossett · 2:43

@cosette

We get really small rooms and the dining halls and whatnot are very not good this year with the meals and I'm like with how much we pay for housing and the meal plans combined. It's like we are not getting our money's worth. Especially because I think it's interesting that you have like a ten or twelve month lease option. Ours, I guess it's twelve months. But we get kicked out for all the breaks and then we get kicked out over spring break, summer break
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Fiona Hernandez
@FionaElizabeth · 0:52
And they said that it was just easier to live off campus because you can live with a group of people who are your friends and it's just much cheaper to live off campus and on campus. So I think that housing definitely can be tricky, and it's definitely one of those things. A lot of College in space as far as the expenses and loans from housing, as well as just roommates
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@cosette
cosette tsai
@cosette · 0:45

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Thank you for sharing and replying to my swell. I'm so glad you love where you live now. I feel like it's always a balance of finding decent roommates, finding just commonality these. I don't know. I think what's hard in Berkeley is that there's so many studentlife and it's like a residential city life, so places can get super expensive, super fast. And I think it's just a common Bay Area thing where living expenses are astronomically high
@cosette
cosette tsai
@cosette · 2:23

@JonathanGossett

I remember before Cove is we had a library that was like 24 hours or I don't know, what are your thoughts on that? Because then you could technically sleep there. But I feel like sleeping in a library would feel kind of sketchy, especially if you have to kind of like, watch yourself. If you have to go to the bathroom, you might lose your spot in the library. I don't know
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