~7 GateShmay
Crazy week, more on that later
Adventures with living conditions continue! I’m set up to move into a new apartment in less than a week. I was feeling really good about it until Tracy and Shelly called me to The Gateway; apparently they lied earlier about all of us living together this summer. They don’t actually have a 4 bedroom for lease in the summer; I’ll be living with other people this summer and then move in with Tracy, Shelly, and Justin in the fall. I don’t need to stress how worried that made me. Think about it: me living with another batch of strangers. This isn't us getting ‘punked’, the Gatewa constraints y told me that the lease is already signed and I have to move in or get someone to take my summer lease. (o_0). 'Whaat?!', was my initial reaction. Now I’ve decided that I’ll be moving, probably in a little over a week. I don’t think I can do well living alone; even if I miserably live with the worst stupid morons, I’m convinced that it’ll get me through my classes… and that’s something I need to get done with. If I can just make it to upper tier classes, where to goal isn’t to scare everyone out of the major, I think I’ll be set.
The Gateway has terrible management. From what I can tell they function more or less like a blind turkey on a rainy day. However during my visit today I bitched my way up the ladder to someone wearing a different colored shirt, who appeared to have half an unassed brain. She was able to explain the she had to work around and I informed her I was a bitter lonely person who had a record of not meshing so well with random roommates. The compromise is that she’ll give me the contact information of my roommates on Monday and if I don’t think I’ll be able to live there there’s another room they’ve had trouble filling because it’s co-ed. This wasn't her generic response, so most likely it's not something she presents to everyone (I pretty much had to beat it out of her). Therefore, I'm going to guess that the two I have to work with are truly random room groups and not the dregs left over... guaranteed to be full of crazies. Given what I learned from summer stays at the Exchange, even if rooms are leased and paid for during the summer, around half the kids go home until fall. Also, among the ones that stay are graduating seniors (who I got along with great last time), and people who are working jobs and internships through the summer. I think that the chances of a ‘not terrible’ living condition being in one of those two places this summer is high enough to risk it. Also, I feel like I have a fall back plan in that I’ll have several friends living with me in the same complex. Obviously I’m not going to just live off their couches, but I think that’ll save me from weird party-events I want to avoid and give me some sort of support group. That being said, yeah this is not how I envisioned my summer to be. Hopefully the situations are as workable as I think they are and who knows, I might make a friend or two I wouldn’t have otherwise. It is only for the summer…
I feel really bad for Shelly; she was really invested in settling into a room for a year long lease (with her special furniture and a chance to decorate the apartment). She and Tracy are still living together, although they’re being paired with two random girls. Things might be shaky off the bat, but by the end of May it should be pretty clear how the summer is going to turn out.
Adventures with living conditions continue! I’m set up to move into a new apartment in less than a week. I was feeling really good about it until Tracy and Shelly called me to The Gateway; apparently they lied earlier about all of us living together this summer. They don’t actually have a 4 bedroom for lease in the summer; I’ll be living with other people this summer and then move in with Tracy, Shelly, and Justin in the fall. I don’t need to stress how worried that made me. Think about it: me living with another batch of strangers. This isn't us getting ‘punked’, the Gatewa constraints y told me that the lease is already signed and I have to move in or get someone to take my summer lease. (o_0). 'Whaat?!', was my initial reaction. Now I’ve decided that I’ll be moving, probably in a little over a week. I don’t think I can do well living alone; even if I miserably live with the worst stupid morons, I’m convinced that it’ll get me through my classes… and that’s something I need to get done with. If I can just make it to upper tier classes, where to goal isn’t to scare everyone out of the major, I think I’ll be set.
The Gateway has terrible management. From what I can tell they function more or less like a blind turkey on a rainy day. However during my visit today I bitched my way up the ladder to someone wearing a different colored shirt, who appeared to have half an unassed brain. She was able to explain the she had to work around and I informed her I was a bitter lonely person who had a record of not meshing so well with random roommates. The compromise is that she’ll give me the contact information of my roommates on Monday and if I don’t think I’ll be able to live there there’s another room they’ve had trouble filling because it’s co-ed. This wasn't her generic response, so most likely it's not something she presents to everyone (I pretty much had to beat it out of her). Therefore, I'm going to guess that the two I have to work with are truly random room groups and not the dregs left over... guaranteed to be full of crazies. Given what I learned from summer stays at the Exchange, even if rooms are leased and paid for during the summer, around half the kids go home until fall. Also, among the ones that stay are graduating seniors (who I got along with great last time), and people who are working jobs and internships through the summer. I think that the chances of a ‘not terrible’ living condition being in one of those two places this summer is high enough to risk it. Also, I feel like I have a fall back plan in that I’ll have several friends living with me in the same complex. Obviously I’m not going to just live off their couches, but I think that’ll save me from weird party-events I want to avoid and give me some sort of support group. That being said, yeah this is not how I envisioned my summer to be. Hopefully the situations are as workable as I think they are and who knows, I might make a friend or two I wouldn’t have otherwise. It is only for the summer…
I feel really bad for Shelly; she was really invested in settling into a room for a year long lease (with her special furniture and a chance to decorate the apartment). She and Tracy are still living together, although they’re being paired with two random girls. Things might be shaky off the bat, but by the end of May it should be pretty clear how the summer is going to turn out.