You’re finally free from the confinements of halls of residence.
It’s the second year. You’re finally free from halls of residence and it’s time to move into your brand new student shared house – that means you get to hand-pick who you live with, you get to choose a nice little house and everything is going to be wonderful. Right?
Expectation: Your kitchen will be Pinterest worthy. It’ll be nice and spacious so that you and your housemates can do cute stuff like make homemade pizzas together.
Reality:
Expectation: You’ll have a washing-up rota so that no dishes are ever left in the sink. Everyone will be so good at doing their bit.
Reality:
Expectation: Heck, you’ll all keep that kitchen sparkling. You can eat food off of any surface in that kitchen. It is a clean haven.
Reality:
Expectation: Your fridge will always be stocked full of delicious eats.
Reality:
Expectation: First-year geared you all up for cooking by yourselves, so with all of your combined skills it’ll be like living in a 5-star restaurant 24/7.
Reality:
Expectation: Your bathroom will look like that of a 5-star hotel and you’ll all vow to keep it that way. You’ll take nice hot baths regularly.
Reality:
Expectation: All of the bedrooms will be about the same size – big enough for a double bed, storage, maybe even your own TV. No one will be left with a shoe-box sized room in this house.
Reality:
WRONG. It’ll be you. You’ll end up with the smallest bedroom in the universe.
Expectation: Your new home will always be super cosy and warm.
Reality:
Expectation: You and your housemates will never fight, because of you hand-picked these people carefully from all of the wonderful times you had together during the first year. You’ll be one big happy family.
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Expectation: You’ll have a nice little garden where you can all hang out on warm days, maybe even invite over a few friends for a BBQ.
Reality:
Don’t be ridiculous. You don’t have a garden.
Expectation: Basically, it’ll be the best living experience ever and you won’t even want to go back home for the holidays.
Reality:
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