Accepted!! Interviewed 11/19
I have a tough decision between MSUCOM and AZCOM. But looks like AZCOM atm, location is too good and the people at MWU were amazing!
RUN, how do students like living at San Lagos and San Prado? Can you please give me your honest input as to housing at or close to MWU. Much appreciated.
First, congrats on the acceptance.
Second, most students that live across the street in SL or SP seem to like it. I know classmates are always having random pool gatherings over there when they can and the apartments aren't shabby at all.
Housing actually at MWU
Pros:
-Right there on-campus; if you want to sleep five minutes til class starts, you can.
-Aside from rent, you only pay an electric bill.
-MWU automatically takes rent out of your disbursement so you don't have to deal with writing a check or anything for rent on a monthly-basis.
-Maintenance is pretty quick about getting things done.
-24/7 security + gated entry. I'm not 100% sure if anything's happened at SP or SL (I want to say they have though), but on-campus housing is the only place around here that I know of that hasn't had any car break-ins or burglaries. The only thing I know of that's happened on-campus was a friend had their bike stolen, but shortly after that it seems the school put somebody on apartment-watch all night rather than frequent drives/walks through the complex.
-All of your neighbors are students (and their families). Not many issues of mid-week partying or late-night disturbances. Plus, when finals week rolls around, there's a 24/7 "quiet hours" that's implemented (granted, nothing changes that week compared to any other week, though I guess if your neighbor was being loud you'd have more recourse against them than normal).
-They do a lot of housing-only events/mixers and also put snacks out during finals week.
Cons:
-Internet. Internet. Internet.
-Packages. If it's UPS or FedEx, your packages get sent to the MWU mail room and you either A) Have to intercept it there before they bring it over to housing. B) Have to get Jose (housing manager) to give it to you over at housing before he leaves for the day. C) You have to wait until 8:00pm so that an RA can get you your package. It is a truly awful, annoying, and asinine system. Plus, when you receive a package, Jose is supposed to email you about it but is known for forgetting to do so for a day or three (most of the time he does, but the ball gets dropped), which becomes an issue if you aren't supplied a tracking# by the shipper and it's something you really need/want.
-No chance of meeting outsiders that live right next to you. There are plenty of nice med/health students but sometimes normal people are a breath of fresh air. Plus, if you're single, it's rarely a good idea to crap where you eat.
-Rent's like tuition, it goes up just about every year for some reason or another...
-Sometimes they decide to do on-campus events that include closing off traffic through the complex and they never notify residents. Every year there's some poor sap who doesn't know about this during the Diabetes Walk, goes grocery shopping, comes back to campus and finds out they have to park on the street and haul their treasures back to their apartment from there. Last year, I was one of those saps.
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-The freaking landscaping crews. They're here all the time and there will be at least one instance a week in which they're right next to your apartment driving you insane. It's more of an issue the closer to the ground you are, but it's annoying no matter how high up you get.
-Some people find the 101 a bit hard to study or sleep near. The only time I'm bugged by it is when some chromosomally-fractured Phoenicians (I swear it's the same two or three people) decide week after week that it's cool to rev their engines or go as fast as they can on the 101 and the service road in attempts to impress (I can only imagine) somebody who'd be equally as impressed by a cat sniffing a dog's butt.
If you want specifics on anything else, feel free to ask .
