7 Reasons Moving During Your College Years Is The Worst
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7 Reasons Moving During Your College Years Is The Worst

After freshman year, the novelty of moving wears off and moving becomes the part of the year you dread

Sarah Avdakov
Aug 12, 2019
The Ohio State University
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One of the biggest events for a new college student is moving into the dorms. It's another huge achievement when you finally get to move into an apartment. However, with moving in and out of your campus home to your home home multiple times a year, it gets old. You know the novelty of moving out is moving out when you have to confront these seven issues with moving so often every year.

You live out of bags and boxes

You know the saying "everything has a place?" It's completely the opposite. Your stuff is in various spots, and it doesn't quite have a permanent spot because there's not enough time, or space, in order to give everything a home, so it stays in the bag that it came back in.

You don't know where anything is

Since nothing has a permanent space, it's hard to find out where you've put anything. Even if you've seen it in the past 24 hours, odds are you won't be able to find it again when you need it.

You always leave something behind

If you're packing up for the beginning of the year, or even during the year, you're going to forget something. Unless you're taking everything, you will forget something and you'll only realize it when it's too late.

You get tired of organizing things

Does everything not have a place because it can't fit or because you're too tired to put it away? After trying to give everything I own a place in four different places over three years, I just don't have the energy to put things away in an organized manner until I know they're going to be there for a little while, preferably a few months.

You'll do anything to avoid packing

When it comes time to move again, I suddenly have a list of things that I want to clean, get rid of, and accomplish that I've never wanted to deal with before I knew that my other option was packing.

You wonder why you didn't sign the same lease

Once you move off-campus, you don't have to move to a new place every year. I made the decision to move to a new apartment, and when I was moving out I wondered why I had made that decision and forced myself to move one more time than I had to.

You can't wait to move into a more permanent home

Every time I move for college, I can't wait for when I can move into a space of my own that'll last for more than a year. It'll be nice to have a place to put everything and know that it can stay there for more than nine months.

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