Two sophomores at the University at Albany are leaping at the chance to live off campus for the Fall 2018 semester.

An interview with sophomores Barbara Baker and Jordan Speshock revealed that there are many pros and cons to living on campus but living off campus is the most ideal.

“I don’t have to drive to class and my bathroom gets cleaned,” says Barbara, emphasizing the pros of living on campus.

Living on campus for two years in a row has given these two girls the opportunity to understand why living on campus is good. Jordan even compares it to having a sleepover with your friends every night.

However, Barbara admits that living on campus while attending UAlbany is the only thing that she knows.

Even with being so comfortable with living on campus, the two girls have chosen to leap at the chance to live off campus for their junior year, even though the university offered them the opportunity to continue living on campus.

“There is absolutely no privacy living on campus, none. I feel like I don’t have my own space because I live with a roommate and its hard,” Barbara exclaims.

“There is no kitchen available, not in the suites, towers, absolutely no where on the quad,” says Jordan, “and there of course, sharing a room tops it off with a cherry.”

Barbara jumps to add on to the end of Jordan’s sentence, “When you have a roommate, you always have to talk to someone. You never really have alone time.”

The two girls have lived together for the past two semesters and are continuing to live together next year, but off campus.

Barbara has calculated that the switch from on campus to off campus will even save her money in the long haul.

Getting to and from school, cleaning their own bathrooms, and finding a place to go in between classes are going to be struggles for the two girls next year, as they admitted. However, they believe that the privacy that living off campus will provide for them succumbs all of these challenges.