If you're stuck on campus and not sure what's so great about moving off, then this is the list to convince you to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. If you already live off campus, then this list will remind you just how great life is for you now.
1. Choosing your own roommate(s).
Schools have the best system of picking the worst roommates for you. Not living on campus gives you the power to live with your friends or with someone not crazy.
2. Having a kitchen.
Sure, you have to cook for yourself, but you to get to cook whatever you want.
3. Your own room!
Your own personal space to stress out about school.
4. Not having to be on campus all the time.
You are no longer chained to campus because you go to class there and also happen to live there.
5. Not sleeping on a twin size bed.
You will actually get a great nights sleep.
6. No floor meetings.
You could have your own floor meetings with yourself and your roommates, but that makes no sense.
7. No loud and obnoxious floormates.
You might still have some obnoxious neighbors, but at least they aren't on the other side of your bedroom wall.
8. Your own bathroom.
This is the best thing to not have to share.
9. Really living on your own.
You might have felt like you were living on your own when you moved into your dorm, but you were really just living with a bunch of other kids and were being taken care of by a bunch of adults that weren't related to you. Off-campus, it's every man for themselves.
10. Experiencing the world outside of a college campus and your parent's house.
You're finally in the real world and on your own. You make your own rules, pay at least some of your own bills, and make all of your own decisions. It's liberating and terrifying at the same time, but oh so exciting.
