Has the living conditions changed or is it pretty much the same?
@RossStudent123
Hello Somotor!
I hope you are doing well. I am currently doing 3rd semester at Ross. As for now, we are living in our houses in US territory because of the COVID situation. Ross is planning to make the cohort of the Upcoming 1/3X/4C semesters to return to the island on January. The island of Barbados extended the state of emergency until March, nevertheless, Ross curriculum will be kept online, for now with limited access for the Ross building. I am not sure how it will be for first semesters.
For housing, you will be required to fill a housing request into the housing site. In that form you will choose which outline you would like (if 2 people, 3 people or 4 people), if private or shared bathroom, they will accommodate you with random roommates if there is availability, in order of priority. If you have a group or know people that you would like to live with, you can submit a request as a group to live together in the same house. Also, if by any chance you don't like with who you are living with or would like to move, they provide a period of one week after the first month or so, to submit request of moving. Meaning, that you will have the opportunity to move if you don't like your living situation or where you are living. Be mindful that they set the times to do changes, and outside of that time you cannot do any changes.
The houses are little, compared to houses in the US, rent is deducted at the start of the semester, so depending on the outline you are accommodated in, that will be the price. I chose a 3 rooms shared bathroom, and I paid $4,200/semester. Some people have experienced problems with centipedes entering their house, at least I've never seen one in mine.
In terms of accessibility of groceries, at Coverley you will have a grocery store called Massy's, and there are several local restaurants and "food trucks" in the middle of the "Coverley Village", that you could go and buy fast food if you want. However, in terms of groceries, I found limited variety, but it helped, at least for me (it was my only option during the start of the Covid emergency). Coverley is 20 minutes driving distance, away from the school, they provide buses to go there. Close to the school (walking distance) there is a mall called SkyMall there is another Massy's supermarket and this one is bigger and has more variety, you might do your groceries there too, after taking the bus to school. Some weekends they also provided buses to another mall and another supermarket that had a little cheaper prices than the one in Coverley. This extra buses I think are programmed by student affairs; I have an understanding, that they not necessarily could be available all semesters. So your transportation will be limited to school transportation or taxis, or if you decide to rent a car.
When the Covid crisis came, I decided to stay to complete the semester. All buses were cancelled, and the people who stayed only had access to Coverley stuff, unless they paid a taxi. Sadly, that time did felt a little like prison, since there were curfew restrictions, also there were restrictions into which days you could go out and do groceries.
They enter our house whenever they want?! Do they at least let students know when they are coming and what they are coming for? And if faculty don't live in Coverley, where do they live? 
