A person’s identity as a college student impacts almost every aspect of their life during these fleeting four years of undergrad: what we wear, how we eat, where we shop, and where and how we live.
Indeed real estate targeting college students has morphed into a very unique industry, almost unrecognizable when compared to its real world counterpart. Only college students would consider a single room housing two showers, two toilets and two sinks a reasonable alternative to two separate bathrooms, not bat an eyelash when mold and insect infestation replace a working doorbell, and tolerate landlords that put repairing a broken air conditioning unit off for weeks in eighty degree weather.
As members of the Greek community, however, we’re given the privilege of exploring a form of college housing not made available to everyone. While this ‘privilege’ can be more of a penance when taking into account the state of many of the fraternity houses on campus, for sorority girls it means spending a year or two in a beautiful mansion equipped with a talented chef, DVR and fifty times the amount of outfits to choose from on a Thursday night. A palatial escape from the customary squalor of campus living is one of the many ways that going Greek can enhance a college experience. With the beginning of Autumn semester just around the corner I, along with countless sorority women at Ohio State, eagerly await moving into my 15th Avenue Dreamhouse, joining the long line of women before me who have lived, laughed and learned together within the same wallpapered walls, and reveling in the comfort that comes with knowing the fridge will never be devoid of food and the doorbell will never cease to ring.
