The Accomodations

From day one, many of my classmates were displeased with the school provided accomodations. I shared a three bedroom apartment with two of my classmates. The apartment was tiny, hot (no AC), and in need of a new coat of paint. There were ants and roaches, but they mostly came out at night! Could have been worse I guess! Most of the other students stayed in the same building, so we had a lot of fun, always back and forth to each other's apartments. We seemed to take up most of the apartments on the 7th floor. I had my own room, which was nice. The mattresses on my bed were extremely soft and thin, so I moved another mattress from and extra bed, and proceeded to sleep in the sunken hole in the middle of the three mattresses for a few weeks. Everyone who walked into my room couldn't help but laugh! This was an improvement over my hips hitting the boards underneath the two soft mattresses. I eventually got firmer mattresses from one of the other apartments, and it was all good! One afternoon, I wsa sitting in my room and I heard a loud bang from the other room. At first I thought one of my roommates had dropped something, but I went out for a look, and our ceiling fan was on the floor. Thank God none of us were in that room at the time! We told the guys who took care of the building that our fan had broken. When we came back to the apartment, the fan had been put back up, but looked a bit off kilter. It wasn't even centered on the fixture that hung down from the ceiling! And, not surprisingly, it didn't turn on when we flipped the switch either... probably for the better!