Too many quirks?
Living on campus in any dorm in the United States won’t be ideal but will be tolerable. When your day consist of school, homework, and going out for the night, you won’t be spending too much time in the dorms anyways. Universities all around the world vary on the accommodation but your basics for living will always be provided. The luxuries of these necessities won’t all fall in the same category.
In the upper left corner of the continental United States, thirty minutes away from the canadian border is a town that houses 82,631 residents calling Bellingham. A quiet area surrounded by hills and trees. A university that reflects of the aurora of the town is placed in the heart of it all. Western Washington University is known for its many quirks. The quirkiest of it all is the remarkable community.
Western Washington University houses thousands of students every year in seventeen separate dorms across campus. All being built between 1921 and 1970 with the one exception of Buchan East which was surprising built in this decade; housing only 105 students at its capacity. The likelihood of being placed in the four year old building is slim to none. Being left with north campus, south campus, or the ridge. When putting into place which will be the least shitty your only choice is the ridge.
Out of the seven complexes in the ridgeway community kappa will be the most bearable one. Being the only fully indoor community makes for a more welcoming environment. Having our doors lead to a hallway vs. the cruel and harsh outside world makes an open door policy more successful in meeting the fellow students in the building. Ridgeway is placed on the southwest edge of the campus on top of a gorgeous hill that will takes your breath away, literally. Walking a quarter mile straight up everyday to get to your dorm is always an experience to have after hours of classes and more than enough homework to end the day off. At Least the freshman fifteen won’t be an issue living on the ridge.
The first ridgeway complex to be remodeled in decades makes living in a cramped dorm a little easier. New hardwood floors, desk, and closets makes the room seem less eerie. Some things have been remodeled but many still remain the same. Mattresses that have been slept and fornicated on by the hundreds of students before, a thought you do not want to cross your mind before closing your eyes at night.
Remember sharing a bathroom with your one sibling was always a fight waiting to happen? Now a total of two showers, two toilets, and three sinks must be shared with an entire hallways of students. Random hairs in the shower, used toilet paper and paper towels scattered throughout the bathroom is always a great sight to see. Only upside to a community bathroom is the janitors that clean the grimy mess left behind by dozens of teenagers.
Kappa is the only complex that is 100% indoors, giving us plenty of advantages. Free spirited teens fill up numerous petite lounges throughout the floors. The overflow of students end up in an entire basement level lounge. Which contains two halves of a ping pong table, pool table, foosball, full kitchen, a moist laundry room, and a large flatscreen tv which seems to constantly be stuck on the latest episode of keeping up with the kardashians; which. A fabulous community to come and learn about the latest gossip.
There will always be things that could use some improvement. The imperfections gives character and make living in Kappa an experience to have. It may be run down and has its quirks but it has character. There is no where else I would rather spend my freshman year of college.