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Arguing about who's taller is NOT gonna help lil old me survive next fall. haha just kidding..
Anyways, I spent the four years I was in college living with four other girls. we had our own condo and had the greatest times.. until someone ate someone's chicken finger, or forgot to buy toilet paper. then things got outta control. I have lived with about 10 different girls throughout college, and maybe its just me.. but I've not had the best of luck. We had a greAt time when the bachelor was on.. or when we could have girly fun times and do each others nails. Except there was also TONS stupid fights about washing dishing and bathrooms.
Anyways, I'm just trying to decide whether or not I want to do that again AND balance grad school, or if I want to try it alone?!?! GROWING UP IS HARD!!! 
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Education????????? Correct? If so, now that you're in grad school what it the venue that is the most conducive to you succeeding? Is it having roomies or not having roomies? Is it quiet time to study and write, or more social interaction with others?
Only you can answer all these questions. It's a different ball game now you know, and you have to make different choices based on what's best for you for the next period of time it takes to get thru with grad school. After all, you've come this far (applause) and so the next is just another stepping stone on the road to a wonderful, professional life!!! One YOU earned, one that no one can take away from you, and one that you'll have for the rest of your life!!!!
Congrats and good luck!!!
Kandee
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Hey... as a fellow grad student I thought I'd chime in. It is possible to do grad school and live alone. The thing is, to live alone you have to live in a shoe box and, like Nugget and others said, do nothing fun ever.
On the other hand, roommate, while making everything hella cheap, SUCK. (Pardon the language). So you have more money for fun, but you have to put up with people behaving like poorly mannered monkeys.
It just comes down to which is more important to you.
But congrats on starting grad school! What are you studying?
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Oh, and the best way to make a decision? FLIP A COIN!! I kid you not. Flip a coin and if you're really happy with the outcome, you know that's what you want to do. If you're really disappointed with the outcome, you know that's NOT what you want to do. In other words, you're not flipping the coin to decide, you're flipping it to figure out what you really want!! Works like a charm!!
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What about all the kisses you get from the General?
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Hi Ashley--
Here's what I did:
First two years of grad school: Lived with the boyfriend, who shall hereafter be called The Dreaded Ex. We were far from campus, so I didn't really hang out with my fellow students (bad). He spent all our joint money on CDs and pianos (bad). Well, I could go on, but you get the point. 
Last three years of grad school: rented out one bedroom in a two bedroom apartment. Yeah, it was in the grad student ghetto of Ann Arbor, so the landlords did nutty things like renting out partial apartments. I ended up with one bad apartmentmate, but the others were great. Since we weren't friends or sharing any finances, we just had to negotiate how to keep the common bathroom and kitchen clean. It felt like having my own place, but it was a lot closer to affordable. I was also walking distance from campus and from Zingermans (other Ann Arbor vets know what I mean!).
Postdoc in Boston: I shared an apartment with one roommate. We had our moments, but it was the only way to make it affordable. Being the lazy and low-energy person I am, I preferred dealing with her occasional dirty dish rather than getting a part-time job that actually paid a decent wage.
I guess the point of my ramblings is that there's a lot of different ways to share housing, and it doesn't need to involve being in your roomies hair all the time or at all. And you'll be busy enough in grad school that you can skip cable and get your internet access at school. All your friends will be poor, too, so the temptations will be fewer!
--AC
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#74361 - 05/28/04 05:12 PM
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Kandee
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Doctor of Astronomy? 
Kandee
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Anyways, I spent the four years I was in college living with four other girls. we had our own condo and had the greatest times.. until someone ate someone's chicken finger, or forgot to buy toilet paper. then things got outta control. I have lived with about 10 different girls throughout college, and maybe its just me.. but I've not had the best of luck. We had a greAt time when the bachelor was on.. or when we could have girly fun times and do each others nails. Except there was also TONS stupid fights about washing dishing and bathrooms.
Here's what you need to do Ashley, share a house with a bunch of guys! If anything will get a reaction from the bf that'd be it 
I've never lived on my own before, ok well I did for one month after my roommate got a job in africa, but then I moved into my current place where we've always had between 3 to 6 people living. So I can't really say, but it seems like the rest of the folks here have given you some pretty good advice (in between argueing about who's the tallest )
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Hi, Thanks you very much!
I'm going to be studying school psychology at tufts! I'm really excited but its gonna be hard! what are you studying?
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