Biggest Challenge as Freshmen

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As incoming freshmen we are faced with many different challenges. However, the biggest challenge we have to deal with is the residential communities that we are forced to live in. The facilities are way too expensive for the quality that is offered by the university, the constrained space and privacy provided are nothing to look forward to and the rules and regulations that have to be followed by the students are unnecessary as well as intransigent. I was expecting to walk into the most spectacular living situation since I was required to pay about $6000 per academic year in living expenses alone. Unfortunately my expectations were deflated as soon as I walked into the room. The bed spaces provided were extremely small for the price; two beds were literally forced into one tiny room, but that's not the worst part. When I first walked in, there was trash that had not been taken out by the previous people that resided in the facility, old food that had been cooked was still in the refrigerator, dirty dishes were left in the sink, the cabinets in my bathroom were broken and the bathroom itself was just filthy. When I reported this to the resident director he ensured that it had never happened before, he then sincerely apologized. Shortly after he simply stated that it wasn't in his job description to clean up after other people and that there wasn't anything he could do about the unfortunate mishap. Long story short, my roommates and I had to bleach and clean every inch of the apartment ourselves. About a month into living in the on-campus apartment there was a horrible leak everywhere emanating from the bathroom located right above our apartment. When my roommates and I reported this to the maintenance man he said that we would have to wait until spring break for him to fix the leak because it required a lot of work. It was great that the leak was going to be fixed
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