Moving away from home was so fun. I swear I spent more time in Target and Bed Bath and Beyond than I did studying for the SAT. I decorated everything. Everything matched, and I was so excited the whole time (Cc: my Target article). Except for when I said goodbye to my parents, obviously I cried like a baby. The excitement slowly but surely goes away as you get older and do it for longer, and learn what it’s like to be “on your own”. I’m sure every single person can relate to me when it comes to having a new apartment, and all of the things that come with it. I could go on a rant, but here are fifteen different things I have noticed the past three years.

1. Moving is the worst thing ever. There are so many things and no where to put them and the move in date is so late so you have to immediately start school and cry.

2. Even literal soap made to clean your clothes will stain all of your clothes. It will never make sense. Still am confused why it happens to me and not to my mom.

3. No wifi will ever be as good as the wifi at home. No matter what the leasing office says about the wifi being great, it’s a lie.

4. Somehow the floors are always dirty. They always need to be swept, mopped, or vacuumed. And your roommates don’t feel like doing it. So you have to.

5. Taking the trash out sucks. Rather have my apartment look like a frat house than have to take the trash out.

6. “Free printing in the clubhouse!” No. Not free. Bring your own paper and half the time the printers broken. So you buy your own printer. Which runs out of ink all the time, and also has problems connecting to the wifi.

7. Dishes are so annoying. I can fully understand why my mom used to get so mad when she would come home after a long day and the dishwasher wouldn’t be empty. It seems as if my dishwasher is ALWAYS full and ALWAYS clean.

8. It is completely acceptable to just bang a nail into a wall without measuring and just hang whatever you want on it. Interior decorating at its finest.

9. If you have a TV in your room you will never do your homework.

10. “Gated community” does not make it any safer.

11. Publix is my BFF. Cooking is so fun.

12. Getting and animal is cute and fun. Until it completely destroys your apartment.

13. Yes, one person can make THAT much of a mess.

14. If you don’t live on the top floor it is guaranteed that the people above you have pet elephants and want to make you mad.

15. If you think there are no messy roommates in your apartment, then you are the messy one. There is always a messy one.