As a sophomore at Boston College, I have the privilege of being able to live with 9 of my best friends. Unfortunately, however, this is not the case for everybody. During one of the last and most stressful weeks of the spring semester, everyone patiently awaits to see if their group will win in the lottery system and receive an 8-man, 4-man, 9-man, or 6-man suite. If not, it is the dreaded CoRo doubles that awaits your future. Luckily, my roommates and I scraped by with a 9-man in Vanderslice Hall, and we couldn't have been more happy.
All summer, we were texting in our group chat trying to plan out the rooms and decorate accordingly. What should I bring? Do we need a vacuum? Can we PLEASE get an American Flag for the common room? Finally, the time came to move in and we could not have been more ready to get back to school and start hanging up all the embarrassing pictures we printed out of each other on the "Wall of Shame".
Now that we have been here for a little over a month, I can definitely see the advantages of being able to live with your best friends. Every night is a constant group sleepover. Walking around our nine man-suite, I can pop into each room and catch up with each of my best friends about how classes were today, when we are getting dinner later, and what embarrassing things we did that day. And after a night out, it's always the best to meet up in the common room, reminisce about the night, and then walk over to Dunkin' Donuts and fill ourselves with caffeine and bagels.
Another plus of living with so many girls is the infinite amount of closets you have. I know for me, I feel like everything that I own is outdated and ugly. So, I can now walk around and shop in 9 other closets for something that they feel the same exact way about. It also definitely helps to have roommates that wear the same exact shoe size as you.
Even cleaning isn't so bad when you can split it up between nine people. After the weekend, when our countertops are sticky, cups are littering the ground, and empty pizza boxes are flowing out of the garbage can, it's so easy to just put on some music (What Do You Mean by Justin Bieber) and quickly tidy up our living space.
Yes, living with nine girls can also be a little challenging. We are all getting ready at once, taking up all of the mirror space and hogging the outlets, and usually someone is screaming in the common room while you are trying to sleep. But I would take all of those everyday over giving up our precious nine-man in Vandyland.
