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Show Living in dorms, student housing priceless while I lived rather inexpensively in student housing. Food Before I left home, I enjoyed cooking but had a somewhat limited palate. Hamburger Helper was a mainstay in my home growing up. I learned a lot of interesting ways to cook foods Id never tried or hadnt drought of preparing in a certain way over the years I spend living with roommates. A favorite of mine was a breakfast dish made by one of my first roommates. Breakfast scramble, as she called it, I Roommates congregate in the kitchen together Opinion Editor Diana Fossett says housing is an experience every student should try BY DIANA FOSSETT Going from having parents pay for nearly everything to footing the bills on your own can be DianaFossettDSN You should really go live with some strangers. Not in a stranger-dangway, but I mean you should try living in student housing. While it er might be tempting to say youre going to save money and just live at home throughout college, there are some important reasons to wave goodbye to mom and dad. Money management There's nothing like having to pay your own bills to get you better at managing your money. intimidating. However, its best to leam this while living in student housing. One reason why you should try student housing is because your rent will be substantially lower while living with other students. Depending on the privacy youre looking for, a shared room will be significantly cheaper than a private room. Rent aside, living in student housing can make you more aware of how you spend your money. For quite a while, I would make sure my rent living in student and other bills were paid, but I didnt pay much attention what else I spent my money on. However, while registering my car, I ended up needing nearly $1 ,000 of repairs. I managed to fix my car, but an uncomfortable amount was put on my credit card. So I started to watch where all my extra money was going, only to see I was spending a ridiculous amount on eating out and random tilings I ordered on Amazon. 1 did pay off my card a few months later, and I became better about my spending. But I was glad I learned this lesson included one potato chopped into small pieces and fried up in a pan with an egg or two. It is a delicious and incredibly cheap dish to make, and it's pretty filling. When we felt fancy, wed top the dish with some avocado or cheese. However, a problem that can arise with food is the lack of food. The starving student joke is a lot less funny when youre on the other end of the joke. But when you live in student housing, youre living with people who are in the same situation as you are. With several sets of roommates over the years, we would have a few days a week where we would pool our food resources and cook dinner together. Sometimes the dish was very strange, like our hobo cas serole which had ground beef, rice, a random assortment of vegetables and topped with stale saltine crackers. But it was always fun to work together to produce something that could help all of us. Communication skills My communication skills underwent a massive overhaul once I started living in student housing. While family may put up with a snarky and sarcastic attitude, let me tell you, roommates really dont have the knowledge of who you are to understand whether or not youre kidding or just a jerk. And the defense, Thats just who I am, isnt a very good one. I mean, yeah, that may be who you are, but eventually the thought drove home for me that I wasnt a pleasant person to five with. In addition to biting my witty tongue on my remarks, I had to leam to talk through problems with my roommates. I generally got shared rooms (because its cheaper and can be fun) , and . it was great as long as we were getting along. When we weren't, I learned to get through our issues sooner rather than later as there are few things as uncomfortable as having someone just across the room see HOUSING page 4 housing issue was designed to help you choose the right dorm or student housing complex for you. Now's the time to start looking for housing if you haven't already, and the Dixie Sun News hopes its guide will help you along in the process. The first-ev- er It's not too late to advertise your housing complex before the end of the year. Contact Dallin Spackman at openings 435-652-7- 81 in 8 or dixiesuna-dsdixie.ed- u for more information about pricing and availability. For tips on eating healthy in student housing, read Alannah Halls "Healthy food options in dorms, student housing possible" article on DixieSunNews. com. mil |