A college town can truly be a beautiful thing, purely because of the atmosphere that it can produce. The always bustling environment and over all excitement can easily distract anyone from whatever is bothering them, and set them in the right state of mind. Almost every big college campus is considered a college town and has a majority of students in it that will occupy the real estate of the dorms.

Real estate is what is interesting when it comes to college towns. When you're an upperclassman, it is a common thought to want to move off campus with a group of your favorite friends and try to get a house. A main reason to want to get this house is to have the liberties to live freely and of course, throw some of the biggest bangers UConn has seen.

This introduces a strange paradox in the whole thing because you realize that these places are also your everyday neighborhoods. This ends up being kind of a real life Neighbors situation, the only difference being that life really isn't a movie.

This is also where it gets kind of confusing and can create some disputes that essentially have no solution because the same material someone like me can use against a family living in a neighborhood, they can use against me.

We dread the cops around here--as soon as they pull up to our house we're quick to run inside--tell everyone to shut up, and filter people through the backdoor under this wishful thinking that the cops will somehow think that there was no party even though they were called and there's anywhere between 100-150 people going out the backdoor.

Then the next day, you sometimes have the unfortunate task of needing to talk to these neighbors that just 12 hours ago, ruined your night on the basis of you being a nuisance and a disruption to their peaceful neighborhood nestled a minute away from a college campus. A few of these people end up being madder at you than you ever thought and it ends up being a whole commotion for the neighborhood.

It's hard to find in this exact moment who the right person is. We, as college students are quick to say that we are right in this situation and that these people are always annoying and bad because we struggle and study during the week only to deal with the cops on the weekend. I mean after all, why are these people raising families in a college town that is dominated by 20,000 students, especially somewhere were the primary school system isn't even top class?

It's a strange paradox and it's annoying how both sides are caught up on the crossfire of all this hate. They want to raise their kids and we want to raise the roofs, and in the end there really doesn't end up being any winners making it the paradox that college kids will probably never be able to solve.