This summer, two of my good friends and I began searching for off-campus housing together.
Many emails, screenshots, and showings later, we have now secured an apartment for the next year. 🥳
Here’s a few things I learned along the way.
Don’t Stress: House Hunting 101
Stressed about back-to-school housing? This post is for you! I attended Housing Services’ House Hunting 101 presentation and here’s what I learned. You can watch the recorded livestream here. Before you start your search it’s important that you determine your…
Nine truths: Finding Off-Campus Housing
When I chose to study in the metropolis of Toronto, I knew housing wouldn’t be easy. The application process to live in residence was simple and I ended up with a best friend as a roommate. But when second semester…
Finding Off Campus Housing
It’s mid way through the semester and for first year students in particular, that means it’s time to start looking for places in which you would like to stay for next academic year, whether if it’s off or on campus.…
My Off-Campus Housing Assumptions
It was around this time last year when I was in first year, that my friends and I began thinking about where we wanted to live next year. We had all lived in residence during first year and although we…
We’ll end up where we belong
Sometimes I’m hesitant to write on lifeatuoft about where my personal life intersects my student life. It becomes easy, after a while, to sort of assume that my free-pizza-loving, in-the-library-napping, bibliophile, super-involved, kinda nerdy but obviously quite invincible student self is all…
Housing, Housing, Everywhere…
So lately I’ve been pondering what my future is going to look like as I get set to graduate in…. 8 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes, and 12 seconds, 11, 10… Â But who’s counting? Regardless of how excited…
Pro bono publico: a phrase I have been mintranslating for the past two decades
As I sat at my table staring at the do-it-yourself will kit I had purchased at the bookstore, a thought went through my mind, “there has to be an easier way”. I don’t have the extra coin to pay a…
When rent is not an opera, but a tragic comedy
We are moving. Again. This is the second time in one year. Our problems started three weeks before my boyfriend and I moved in to our current apartment. Our landlords, a husband and wife couple, had promised us that by…