Erin Connelly is a junior majoring in journalism and is a Collegian municipal reporter. My Opinion Planning is key to successful apartment hunting It happens to almost everyone. Midway through freshman year, the desire to inhabit a living space bigger than a closet can become overpowering.
Students then begin a quest to find the perfect apartment and leave the dorms behind forever.
I began dreaming of my own space after coming back to my dorm room after a long day of classes, tripping over the phone cord, banging my knee against a sharp corner of my bunkbed and hurtling into a rickety wooden laundry rack, breaking it in half. This incident spawned a month-long hunt for the perfect bachelorette pad, during which I picked up a few tips on what to do and, most importantly, what not to do when looking for an apartment. My first mistake involved my method of locating apartments. My future roommates and I hit the streets, knocking at every apartment that we thought looked decent. I would not recommend this technique to anyone.