I would be lying if I said I wasn’t slightly irritated when I opened my One Start Account this summer to find I would be living on not only an all girls floor, but in an all girls building. For my freshman year, I was assigned housing in one of the only all girls dorms on campus, better known as “The Virgin Vault."
Before college started, I was thrilled; I was excited for a new place, new people, and new experiences, but what I was not excited for was living in an all girls dorm. I’ve always thought that living on a co-ed floor was part of the college experience, so I was pretty bummed-out when I found out I would be missing out on that part of my college experience, or so I thought.
The first couple weeks were tough. None of the girls on my floor really talked and we didn’t hang out. It was upsetting, because my friends who were in other dorms, co-ed dorms, were already clicking with their floor. Almost as if it was on cue, the girls on my floor started going into each other’s rooms and introducing ourselves, sparking conversations, and getting to know each other. And suddenly, it didn’t seem like it would be as bad as I thought.
Almost four months later, I can full-heartedly say that living on an all girls floor is the best thing that has happened to me my first semester of college. As soon as we got past the awkward and unsocial stage, my floor clicked like you wouldn’t believe. We were always in each other’s rooms, dance-parties were a nightly routine, and yelling to someone down the hall from your bed was normal. Looking back on the past four months, I wouldn’t trade my floor for the world. Not in a million years would I choose to be on a co-ed floor opposed to an all girls floor, and here is why.
Living on an all girls floor has taught me such a true value of friendship. Through the past four months we’ve cried together, experienced new things together, fought together, and laughed together. No matter what, I always had someone there. Out of the 18 girls on my floor, I always had a shoulder to cry on when I needed it, someone to laugh at my dumb jokes, and someone to tell me when my outfit wasn’t so pretty. And the best part of all is that when you decided you didn’t like your clothes anymore, there were 18 other closets to choose from. Through the roller coaster ride of the first semester of college, I have learned that the girls I live with are not just girls that I live with. They’re best friends that live down the hall, girls with so many things to offer the world, girls who will yell at you until you start your paper that’s due the next day, and girls who will be there through the ups, the downs, and every moment in between.
Between the endless cards against humanity games, the movie nights, the late night talks, the dance parties, the inside jokes, and the times we would have concerts in the community showers, I discovered what living on an all girls floor is really like. Living on an all girls floor is always having someone there for you, it’s having someone there to make you laugh, someone there to procrastinate with you, someone to be silly with, someone to experience new things and grow with, it’s having best friends that you live with, it’s making forever friends, and it’s having girls to help you find yourself when you lose yourself. So here is to my floor one babes, thank you for being you.
