apartment

August is here and with it comes the prospect of moving into your new apartment for the year. I moved into my first apartment a couple months ago, and have some ideas for things that are important to get you started. 

Although I’m sad summer is coming to a close, there’s a part of me that’s excited to return to school and gain new experiences. It’s my senior year and I want to start it off right with great people, food and places.

I play the part of being seen, my eyes light up with the imaginary spotlight of me being watched by strangers and acquaintances and embodying what they want from me. 

There are plenty of pros and cons to both apartment and dorm living, but I’m incredibly excited to experience an apartment after my last year of on-campus dorming.

Didn’t I say I’d write a gender roles reversed version of this series? The time has come to bash the ladies, me included. Gender equality, am I right? Here are the things that are “red flags” in a girl’s apartment in case you need the heads up. Men, take notes.

For those of you looking to escape the headache, the smell of overflowing trash or the pile of clothes crowding you in, here are some of my best tips for living with another human.

We got our own place, sold all their furniture — 60 dollars of cash that we left lying behind the toaster. I don’t even have curtains, our neighbors can look inside. But I don’t mind, all they’d see is us gabbing at night.

For UC Berkeley students preparing to live in their first campus apartment this semester, here are things you should and should not bring to your place.

There are moments when the loud sounds reverberating off of the colorful homes onto the cracked pavements of the lively Berkeley streets can make the quiet in my roommate-free apartment that much quieter. 

there’s a bubble in the wall above our pillows. it’s a painted over bulge, caught condensation from decades of tenants mouth breathing into a room