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Living with many housemates diversifies college experience

At first, I did not know what I was getting myself into. A group of students — some of whom I had never met before — decided to look at houses together. The day we looked at houses was the first day all seven of us officially met. Because the house we were looking at was owned by Community Resource Management Co., we were forced to commit to a lease by October 2012, although we would not be moving in until August 2013. We had nearly a year to think about how the living situation would play out, and I was anxious to discover what it would be like living with six other people, two of them being girls.