My third year in college we were allowed to live off campus and I ended up sharing a 4 bedroom house with 3 other dudes. The bedrooms were all converted to have their own HVAC but we shared the kitchen and bathroom.
Every day at noon we'd sit in the living room together and watch "All My Children". And once in a while someone would make a tuna casserole - which we referred to as a tuna bomb. And it would be shared.
Other than that everyone pretty much went their own way and we got through the year without any issues.
The following year I moved to one of the two rental apartments on the second floor. They each had outside staircases for entry/exit.
I stayed one more year before getting my degree, and that last year I shared a cottage on the Ornamental Horticulture Department greenhouse facility property with another OH senior and received rent in exchange for watching over the complex on the weekends and after hours on weekdays. We had the keys to the greenhouse complex and could go through them anytime we wanted, which was pretty cool when you wanted to impress a date. Plus that was where some of the labs were conducted for our courses so on those occasions, we'd just casually stroll over from the cottage just before class was to start..."Yo everyone...what up?"
