Jenny is the only pre-med major in our house. We are not sure how she manages to get good grades and still enjoy life with the rest of us, but she does. We owe her many thanks for putting up with the noise and chaos throughout the year, as she was trying to get into medical school. Jenny takes a break from her pre-med work load to give you a glimpse of what living with 14 for a year was like:
When Lizzy first mentioned to us that she wanted us to write in her blog about 214, I thought, great! I have so much to say about this place! Then I really started to get into it and I realized there is so much to say about this year that it is actually nearly impossible to put it all into words. As you can see from Hendrix’s post, we definitely have so many great memories…but she kind of covered those. What I want to write about I guess is the things that you couldn’t see. It was the bond that the 14 of us formed without even trying. As summer is rounding the corner (hopefully, because its still pretty cold out right now!) and we begin to reemerge from the house and onto the porch, I have started to realize how different we have all become over the year. First of all we have all experienced FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and YOLO (You Only Live Once) quite a lot. After realizing that in a house of 14 girls there will never be quiet time, we discovered we might as well be loud and do things all the time. FOMO was felt at one point or another throughout this year. We are so used to being around this many girls that when you are the only one or two left in the house its absolutely depressing! It seems these days we just aren’t happy if its not at least 10 of us laying around or doing something together. YOLO (You Only Live Once) has become a common theme throughout the year as well which has helped force even the most studious of roommates out the door and to the bar. One of the best things I realized about living with all of these girls is that no matter what you want to do, there is always someone else who will join you. Georgios at 3am? Check! Insomnia for dinner? Sure. 7-11 slurpees and running around the house throwing chairs?? Someone will do that one too.
My family and other friends do not understand how I live in this craziness, but to me its become comforting. The hardest thing I think will be going back home and living with my parents while I wait to hear from medical schools. I think it will be down right boring! I thank 214 for opening my eyes to things I’d never seen before. I’ve become accustomed to having no privacy, having multiple girls walk in and out of the bathroom while I am in there. I’ve learned that girls can be way wayyy messier than guys, as it has become the resident joke that we are actually a frat and not a group of girls. Although we’ve had mushrooms reproducing in our bathrooms, weeks without toilet paper, and sick black mold in our showers… I have to say that I wouldn’t take back any of this for the memories I’ve made this year.
Each girl that lives here brings a new and great personality to the floor and if I could have it my way I’d get us all a new 214 somewhere that we can destroy together for another year. I’ll miss the late night talks, random movies, law and order SVU marathons, lou has taco fridays, karaoke with the vacuum, parties on the porch, keggers, beer pong tourneys, the 13 other closets I steal clothes from and much much more. But mostly, I’ll miss all of my roomies! Love you guys!
