Are there advantages to living off campus?
There are advantages to living off campus if you like paying you own bills you like dealing with the landlord. If you like dealing with the cable company. If you like shopping and cooking you own meals. If you like dealing with roommate situations without anyone who can help intervene. If you want to deal with all those things then that's cool, you can do that. Those are some of the advantages. But living on campus you don't have to worry about all those little things that can be a headache. So to live off campus, yeah you can do that. You can do it your sophomore year, your junior year, senior year, double bonus senior year you have that opportunity. But living in a residence hall and sharing in that group experience is amazing plus you get to see what is happening. There are flyers all around to keep you in touch. People are recruiting you to get involved on campus. A lot of times there is free tutoring. A lot of times there is free mental help; there's free sexual health screenings. There is so many different things you see as a product of living in that community that you don't get living somewhere else.