This is my first year living out of the Wofford Bubble. I figured that since it was my senior year I deserved to be free from such wonderful "college experiences" as finding vomit in the hallway and listening to my neighbor's various sexual relations. So my best friend at Wofford and I decided to live in a townhouse on the west side of town. I love being able to leave the school behind at night and come back whenever I want.
Commuting is tough, too. You have to wake up a little earlier to make the drive through endless red lights and idiotic Spartanburg drivers. The place to part for Wofford commuters is behind Milliken in the SMA parking lot, which is spacious and at a nice location. Until Campus Safety locks the gate at 5:30. I don't know if they think that commuting students just come to class and then leave by 2 or what. We have labs. We work on campus. And I hardly ever leave Wofford before 6. My housemate and I came out of Milliken the night after the Wofford freshman was attacked on Memorial Drive around 6 to find the gate locked. We called Campus Safety to come unlock the gate and I dare say the man seemed a bit miffed. He begrudgingly told me that there WAS an entrance down on Memorial Drive.
Let's backtrack. A student has just freshly been attacked on Memorial Drive and a campus safety officer wanted US, two young adult females to just go frolicking down there to our cars with no other people around. I don't think so. We finally did, just to hurry things along, but I think they should have more respect for off campus students as being just as valid as on campus ones.
Not to mention the shocked responses I get when people find out I live off campus: "But why would you ever want to live off campus, away from everything?!"
Exactly.
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