Aside from the nasty bathrooms, people taking a poo while you're trying to shave, kitchens with mice, closet-sized rooms, shoebox-sized closets, sketchy stains on the carpet, broken in roof, peeling paint, obnoxious music from your floormates, intrusions of your RA...

Aside from all that, you can have your 3,000 dollar razor collection confiscated and be required to take the risk of shipping it back home. That's what happened to me today, because somebody reported to the campus police that I had knives in my room. Now the worst part is that I almost never go to my room, because I stay at my girlfriend's room and I was beginning to move all my shaving stuff to her room. I had basically moved all my razors by last week except for a few rusty blades that I was planning on taking home to buff.

Well, the campus police came today and inspected my entire room. The guy even admitted that it was clear that I used them for shaving and not as weapons. He asked me if I had any others from the ones in my room, and I was dumb enough to admit to having 10-15 at my girlfriends. Those 10-15 were, of course, my nice blades...he asked for all of them except two or three that I could keep to shave with. He said that having 15 razors in a college dorm was inappropriate, but he didn't say because it was dangerous. It was "an issue of perception" whatever the hell that means...it really sucks because I had basically stopped keeping them in my room and had stopped shaving with them in my floor's bathroom. If I had just made this transition a little earlier, maybe no nosy student would have seen them and reported me for having them...

But I guess that's what I get for not wanting to search for an apartment in Manhattan. You get (less than) what you pay for and you deal with the utter lack of privacy when you sign that contract to live in campus housing...

Thanks for letting me rant