When you finally graduate from Dorm Room living to Townhouse living, you feel that you will become a full-fledged adult. You tell yourself that you will cook your own meals every night, clean your room every day and get shit done. However, as the days pass and the “honeymoon” phase of adulthood ends, the reality of your laziness truly sets in. Here are the expectations vs. realities of living in the townhouses.
Expectation: You will cook your own gourmet-status dinners. Reality: You realize that you don’t know how to cook after nearly setting your kitchen on fire, and result to bagged salads and microwaveable chicken strips on the reg.
Expectation: You will finally be able to bring your car on campus and you know this will make you go into town and do real-life things. Reality: You can never find a parking spot in front of your house, so you resort to never leaving #sorrynotsorry.
Expectation: You will always have parties and pregames because you finally have a house. Reality: The stress and annoyance of cleaning up the aftermath makes having a party not worth it sometimes.
Expectation: You will be neater because you don’t want your friends to walk into your living room and think you’re a slob. Reality: You #dgaf what people think of you, and continually leave your shoes and bags all over the place anyway.
Expectation: You will still go to the library every week to get your work done and be productive. Reality: The library is way too far, so you never really make it over there anymore.
Expectation: When you have parties, you will slam the door in a freshman’s face after saying “Who do you know here?”. Reality: You kind of feel bad for said freshman, and you remember the days of not being able to get into every townhouse party you approach. You let them in for a little anyway because you’re a good person.
Expectation: You will be partying 24/7. Reality: You remember all of your responsibilities in life, and therefore result to partying on weekends and only some nights of the week.