Campus Living

Late one night in a campus rental kitchen, watching water creep across a cheap laminate floor, it hit me: none of the class notes, group projects, or startup pitch decks…

I remember sitting in a dorm lounge at 1 a.m., watching someone mop up a spreading puddle under the vending machines and thinking, "If this were a basement apartment, that…

I was sitting at my desk, watching yet another "perfect" gym routine video, when I looked at the clock and realized I had exactly 23 minutes before my next class.…

I was staring at the sad, stretched-out plant on my roommate's windowsill when it hit me: our dorm is basically a cave with Wi-Fi. Why do we keep buying plants…

I was staring at my tiny room at 1 a.m. and realized it felt less like a bedroom and more like a storage closet with Wi-Fi. You know that moment…

I was sitting on my dorm floor at 2 a.m., eating leftover fries, when I realized my feet were literally going numb. Concrete under a thin layer of cheap vinyl…

I was staring at the pile of laundry, textbooks, and random tech cables on my floor and suddenly realized: the problem was not the room, it was the air above…

I was sitting on my dorm floor at 1:37 a.m., surrounded by half-packed boxes, when I realized I had labeled three different boxes "Misc." That is not a label, that…

I was staring at my laptop at 1:37 a.m., surrounded by laundry, snack wrappers, and three half-dead plants, and my brain just refused to work. It felt like my room…

I used to think roommate drama was just part of the college package, like bad coffee and group projects. Then I watched two friends stop talking for an entire semester…