University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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ApaKTcnem dweUens deal wnh ibe sowejicr es hansh our nealmes op hills and kuKued hReakpasis. own kv Ehzabeih D ' OhveKa , electricity, water and telephone. ♦ Who would ever guess that these four uld strike terror into the hearts of students every month? If you live in an apartmMt, of course, they are common concerns. Every month the bills come and every mWllrt ou and your roommates or house mates must sit down to determine who talked to Boston for two hours, who left the lights on all night, and who used all that water for a ten-minute shower. • Fortunately, figuring out the bills is an easy task compared to getting someone to take out the trash. Chores are a major problem for most apartment dwellers, since most have barely enough time to do their homework, let alone wash the moldy dishes in the sink. But somehow, the garbage does get taken out, and the dishes washed, but more as acts of desperation and necessity than acts of duty. And while the dishes are being washed, one begins to wonder: why leave the sweet sanctity of dorm life? All that seemingly free electricity and water, reliable meals, consistently clean bathrooms... the only thing to break such thoughts are the memories of what you don t miss. What you don ' t miss is living in a triple in Unit II, sharing a bathroom with thirty other people, and wondering if walking down to the dining commons for leftover turkey surprise is really worth all that effort. ♦ Usually the things that students don ' t miss from the dorm experience are the very elements that drive them into apartments. Those who move into apartments do so for various reasons: some get sick ot dorm food, others tire of the lack of privacy, and still others are flaky enough to forget to purchase a dorm contract and have little other choice. The most important reason for moving into an apartment, however, is for the independence and freedom that such a move symbolizes. Little problems like five vacuums and no dish soap may arise later, but the initial joy of finally being on one ' s own overrides everything else. Of course move-in day is the only time that the place will every really be clean, and the bills haven ' t come yet, either, so it ' s the best time to enjoy the independence before responsibility sets in. Student Life ♦ 28

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Vt)Klv ' Sl?I :TS are an integral part of co-op life. This Fenwick resident retreatsbacktohis apart- ment after hoeing the front garden. Cnashim omuecom- munitN ' sofas is all too common for some resi- dents as they can ' t seem to make it to their respec- tive bedrooms. use A Office .snot onl V the headquarters for all those living in the co- ops, but is also the infa- mous Casa Zimbabwe. Co-op Life ♦27

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Food IS viral tor those who desire to cat, Who Ueeds a desk when your lovely This apartment obviously houses well fed resi- sofa is the perfect studying enviromenl and dents. Note: notice the division of chores comfy too. posted on freezer door. Apartment Life ♦ 29