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[AXOmom]

Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88

Back to clarify what I meant! There's not a 'shortage' of off-campus housing per say, but if you're looking to room with more than 1 other person, you sign leases for houses in September/October for the next school year, nicer apartments are gone by December. There's a lot of competition, and a lot of the apartments are, for lack of a better phrase, hell holes. (Case in point: my BF's apartment has mice in the walls and cabinets right now and they won't do a thing about it. They poop on his dishes! We're buying mousetraps this week) The on-campus apartments outside of Union Street aren't places people really want to live unless it's a last resort, as they're expensive and have rather unflattering nicknames to describe the people living inside of them. Girls don't and won't go back to the dorms because there is a stigma that people who live in the dorms more than one year are socially inept, basically. Plus they're expensive and a pricey meal plan is basically required.

So in the end, girls are like well...I can move to a tiny apartment, compete for a house, or stay in my mansion where someone cooks and cleans for me. Other than seniors...it seems like a pretty obvious choice!

I don't want to come across like I'm arguing with you at all - I promise I'm not. I get that every campus culture is different and if this is how girls see it at IU - well, it is what it is. It's just that how different schools in different parts of the country do things interests me, and I can't quite wrap my head around this one.

I get not wanting to live in a hell hole, not wanting to live in the dorms more than one year (that seems to be a stigma at a lot of schools), and not wanting to pay a fortune for an apartment and the advantages to living in.

The bolded is what I don't get. If Indiana changed the system and told girls upfront that they would only be living in the house 1, 2, or 3 years (whatever they decided), so the girls knew at least a year in advance they were going to have to find other housing - what would keep them from signing leases in September/October for the next school year and getting the good apartments well before December? I
guess I'm not following the timeline here.

Also - the nicknames given to people living in some of the apartments would bother them? What sorority or fraternity hasn't been given an unflattering nickname by someone? A college junior or senior would care about that? That just kind of baffles me.

Of course, sorority women would have to tell me on this one - I don't know - all I have to go on is my daughter's feelings on the subject - but it seems to me that in terms of bonding and sisterhood, there would be a point of "diminishing returns" in that after four years of living, working and socializing with mostly the same say 100 girls you would go from sisterhood to "Get within 50 feet of me and I'm going to freakin' strangle you," pretty quick. Come to think of it - that's how I felt about my biological sister a good part of the time and there was just one of her.

Cooking and cleaning aside - personally I'd want some privacy and independence by junior year....at the latest. I guess I just can't picture that many girls doing that well together over that length of time but if IU's making it work - hats off to them.