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table of CONTENTS

o5 TOP 1o PERKS of LIVING OFF CAMPUSBest benefits of leaving the Danforth campus behind

o8 SURVIVING WITHOUT A CARHow to make sure you can still get around St. Louis without needing to drive or pay for a parking pass

1o HOW TO COOK IF YOU CAN’'TSimple recipes for your new off-campus apartment

12 NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDEA look at all the residential areas around campus

16 DEMYSTIFYING THE HOUSING LOTTERYEverything you didn’t understand or never figuredout about Wash. U.’s housing selection nightmare

18 WHAT TO DO WITH AN EXTRA ROOMTake advantage of an abroad roommate’s space

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THE Top 1O perks OF living OFF CAMPUS1. MEAL PLANS

A simple comparison of meal plans: the apartment plan, the minimum required plan for students living on campus, costs $1,806 per year for 1,227 points. The off-campus plan costs $1,116 per year for 724 points. The difference between the two: a whopping $690 for just 503 extra meal points. The conclusion: it’s cheaper to buy the lowest meal plan and pay extra in Bear Bucks than to pony up extra meal money just for the privilege of living on campus. Of course, not needing Bear’s Den or the Village House for food means…

2. COZY TEMPERATURES If it’s cold, you won’t have to leave your room

to get food. With the temperature often dropping into the teens—and below—over the course of a St. Louis winter, this perk can’t be underes-timated, as even living mere steps away from Bear’s Den or the Village House can cause untold

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The Peacock Diner is the newest restaurant on the Delmar Loop. Owned by Joe Edwards, who also runs Blueberry Hill and Pin-Up Bowl, the Peacock is open 24 hours underneath the Lofts of Washington University.

Let’s start with the obvious first. Non-Washington University housing is cheaper than its Residential Life alternative. It’s great to have a kitchen in your room, which on-campus residents only have if they live in Millbrook or Village East. Off-campus housing generally affords more freedom.

But there are also a number of lesser-discussed perks to leaving behind the Danforth campus and living in an off-campus apartment—through ResLife or elsewhere. Let’s start with a factor relating to the most important concern on the mind of a college student: food.

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amounts of suffering and finger frost. It’s much easier to take the five steps from your bedroom into your kitchen and whip up a nice hot meal on your stove. And you’ll be sure to have food in your room because…

3. PROXIMITY TO FOOD You live closer to a grocery store. Living on

the South 40 puts you more than a mile from Schnucks, and living on the North Side on cam-pus places you a similar distance from United Provisions. But all the off-campus apartments owned by Wash. U., as well as the set of apart-ments in the Pershing-Waterman and Kingsbury areas, are within short walking distance of United Provisions, allowing for an easy fix when-ever you’re running short on kitchen staples. And if you need to go to Schnucks for a more expansive offering…

4. PARK WHERE YOU WANTParking is much easier. To park while living on

campus, you need to purchase a campus pass for the excessive sum of $555 per year. To park most places off campus, conversely, that price is a neat $0. Unless you’re using your vehicle to drive to class, there’s no need to buy a pass, meaning you’ll be free—literally—to drive around St. Louis as your heart desires. Of course, you won’t want to drive on some nights…

5. BE NEAR THE PARTYParticularly ones that involve drinking, for our

21-and-over readers. With many students cel-ebrating their 21st birthdays during their junior and senior years, it’s imperative to keep fun celebration plans in mind. Bars on the Loop, like United Provisions, are within easy walking dis-tance from most off-campus residences, meaning you won’t have to hassle with a taxi or enlist a designated driver to keep your weekend evenings safe. Weekends in general can be an additional source of off-campus fun because…

6. FREEDOM FROM RASYou aren’t being monitored 24/7. Sure, it’s an

exaggeration to say you’re being monitored by your on campus resident advisers 24/7, particu-larly when you leave the 40 for the North Side. But there’s a huge difference between having an active RA who lives a few doors down and not having one at all—as is the case for students liv-ing outside ResLife—or having one less actively involved in your social lives. And with that additional freedom…

7. PETS CAN COME PLAYYou might be able to have a pet. Some land-

lords allow their residents to own pets, which is

universally the most-missed aspect of home life for college students. So stop trying to substitute a fish for your dog or cat back home and get the real thing (or sneak in the real thing for you off-campus ResLife occupants, not that we at all advise you to break those rules). You’ll even have more time to play and cuddle with your pet considering…

8. KEEP YOUR DISTANCESome days, you never have to visit campus at

all. After a stressful week full of exams, some-times you just need a day away from Wash. U. But when you’re on the 40 or in the Village, that atmosphere is impossible to avoid unless you quarantine yourself in your room all day (not that we’re judging!). Off campus, of course, you can roam free and just escape from the bubble if school and stress become too much to handle. Of course, if you find yourself needing to visit campus…

9. OR STAY CLOSESome campus hotspots are actually closer to

off-campus residences than their on-campus

counterparts. Greenway to Olin Library is a closer walk than most dorms on the South 40. The art school and new engineering build-ings are closer to the Pershing-Waterman apartments than both the 40 and North Side. Just a few minutes’ worth of walking every day doesn’t seem like a big deal, but those extra steps add up over the course of a year. Your legs and commitment to punctuality will appreciate the shorter walking times. Of course, that concern is minor when compared to the fact that…

10. YOU’RE A REAL PERSONYou’ll have to learn basic life skills that

aren’t addressed on campus. Living on the South 40 means your housekeeping needs are accounted for and your toilet paper rolls are always filled. But move off campus and you’ll have to clean your own bathroom, buy your own supplies and (gasp!) even take out your own trash. Simply put, it encourages—and forces—you to develop as an adult and a func-tioning human being before you leave college behind for the real world.

United Provisions is the new grocery store on the Delmar Loop. Along with the Peacock Diner, the store sits underneath the Lofts of Washington University.

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The pain of not having a car: your freedom of going to the grocery store at any time, getting food after midnight or taking a random weekend road trip seems to be gone. But for all four years of my college life, I’ve managed to keep some of that freedom without having a car, and honestly, it’s not as hard or as bad as you might think. It’s an adaptable lifestyle and there are easy solutions around the main issues.

Here are five tips for surviving college, especially off-campus living, without a car.

1. GET CARSHAREIf you have some sort of car insurance at

home, you’re in luck. Join Enterprise CarShare and you’ll be able to reserve a car any time you want for a low flat rate of $5 per hour. There’s no annual fee and with more than 10 different cars available for rent on campus, finding an available car is rarely a problem. What makes CarShare even more attractive is that your gas is on the house. All you have to do is visit www.enterprisecarshare.com and fill out the short application form.

2. FIND A ROOMMATE WITH A CARInvest in a roommate with a car, become best

buddies with him and you’ll be able to hitch a ride whenever he’s going for groceries, getting dinner or making a Target run. It’s a worthy investment, and while this tip depends on your roommate’s availability, it’s another free option that just requires some looking around for the JEREMEY JANNENE | FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS

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right person. And if your roommate is super nice, you may even be able to borrow his car a couple of times to run a couple of errands. You may need to do a couple of favors to make up the number of rides he’s given you, but it’s a worthy price to pay compared to the price you would be paying to have your own car on campus.

3. USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONWant a free ride without bothering your

friends asking for favors? Then you should consider taking public transit. While St. Louis’ transit system may seem poor compared to other big cities around the country, it’s still easy to take advantage of the MetroLink options given our school’s location. With three buses—Gold, Red and Green—avail-able at Mallinckrodt Center, you can easily reach Central West End, the Delmar Loop and places 4 miles north and 10 miles south of the University. Prefer a different mode of transportation? Using the MetroLink train gives you easy access to downtown, the Galleria and Target. With the University City Big Bend and Skinker stations right next to campus, getting

on the train shouldn’t be a hassle. Just make sure you check the train schedule, bring your U-Pass and you’re good to go.

4. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WALKABLE STORESNeed to get in some exercise and take care of

some errands? You can kill two birds with one stone by taking advantage of the nearby stores on Clayton Road and the Loop, both of which are within walking distance from campus. This may seem like a hassle, but it’ll open your eyes to the sur-rounding community that you wouldn’t necessarily get to experience driving a car. So put on your walking shoes, grab a buddy and get out there.

5. TAXI/UBERWhen there are absolutely no options

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Living off campus is exciting. Your resident adviser does practically nothing, you’re within walking distance (most likely) of some semi-exotic chain pan-Asian takeout restaurants and you are (sort of) FINALLY living it up in the city like a real adult.

But what happens when you get sick of the pan-Asian takeout and Noodles & Co. macaroni and cheese and your teeny tiny meal plan dries up from all the half-and-halfs you keep buying during your inebriated pilgrimages to the South 40? Looks like you’re going to have to finally touch that little kitchenette—no, microwaving popcorn chicken doesn’t count.

Cooking can be scary, especially if you’re used to having it done completely for you. You don’t have to be Gordon Ramsay to make tasty, varied and (relatively) healthy food, though. Here are three easy sort-of recipes to try for the launch of your culinary debut.

EGG-DROP SOUPTake your egg. Take your bowl. Take

your fork. Crack your egg into the bowl. Whip your egg with your fork until it looks gross. Boil some chicken broth in a pot. Take your fork again and dip it into your gross egg. Pull it up so there’s a little string of gross egg hanging down. Drop that string of gross egg into the boiling broth. Realize that this is going to take too long and just kind of pour your gross egg little by little into the broth while stirring simultaneously.

The gross egg should turn into beautiful ribbons of non-gross cooked egg. If you’re feeling fancy, throw in some green onions and curry powder. Or cut up a real onion and some carrots and put that in with your gross egg to make a non-gross egg-drop soup.

RAMENYeah, I know. Ramen is whatever. Bear

with me, though. This is a staple of col-lege diets for a reason, that reason being its cheap price, eternal shelf life and easy preparation. By itself, this quick meal offers very few nutrients and way too much sodium. With a few easy and effortless addi-tions, however, you can easily turn ramen into an actual meal.

Add some meat to the broth, like chicken breast (cook it first), slices of roast beef lunchmeat or even shrimp if you want to

be super fancy. Add some egg. Add it in the gross-egg-to-pretty-ribbons fashion as illus-trated in sort-of recipe No. 1, or fry it and just put it on top of your ramen bowl. Make the yolk kind of runny so you can stab it and watch the yellow bleed out like roadkill.

Add some vegetables, like onions and mushrooms and carrots, and add them while you’re boiling the broth so they are cooked and not gross. Only use the noo-dles. Throw out the spice packet. Use real broth from the store so you don’t get heart disease, unless you’re into that. Add curry powder. Always add curry powder. And sriracha.

If you’re feeling sad and you want to be unhealthy, make the noodles without the spice packet. Drain. Mix with cheese until the cheese is melted. Now you have the sad-dest macaroni and cheese in the world. Go cry about what you have done.

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Brussels sprouts, shallots, and mushrooms. Brussels sprouts are pronounced “Brussel sprout” unless you want to sound preten-tious. They are also gross. We are going to make them less gross. Shallots are what old rich people eat, but we are young and poor and free and we will emulate the upper class in our easy cuisine. Mushrooms are great.

Take your chopped sprouts and mush-rooms and put them on a cookie sheet. Drizzle them with olive oil and some salt

and pepper like you are on a cooking show. Add some chopped garlic if you are fancy, but if you are real, add garlic powder. Put that tray into your oven at 450 degrees for like half an hour. Meanwhile, put your shallots into a ton of oil on a skillet and fry them until they are almost burned. Take the pan of veggies out and mix it with the shallots. Impress your friends by making them think that they are eating healthy food when really they are eating really nasty, deli-cious amounts of oil to disguise the fact that Brussels sprouts are gross.

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DEMUNLiving in DeMun feels like living at home; a

15-minute walk from main campus, it’s a quiet suburb with an elementary school around the corner. There’s a Kaldi’s Coffee, a laundromat and even a candy store for your sweet tooth. Everything is very quaint and un-college-like, which both works in and against DeMun’s favor. Unfortunately, the Loop is about a half-hour walk away. If you live in DeMun, you may want to consider a car or, at the very least, a U-Pass.

Down the street from Kaldi’s is a trio of bars—Jimmy’s on the Park and Sasha’s, which sit snug next to each other, and the Oyster Bar. Also within rea-sonable walking distance are Schnucks, Walgreens, the AMC Esquire 7 and the Hi-Pointe Theatre. And then there are the parks—on one side, Concordia, great for mid-afternoon walks, reads, picnics and dog-watches, and on the other side, Forest Park.

The most troubling part about living in DeMun is that you’ll stop feeling like a college student. But for the college student in you, there’s always Mike Duffy’s on karaoke night. Despite being far away from popular places like the Loop, DeMun is a peaceful neighborhood with an excess of neary parks and greenery.


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It may be a far walk if you have classes in the business school or Seigle Hall, but this neighbor-hood has a unique personality and culture that for many students compensates for the lengthier trek to campus.

With hipsters and hippies and vegetari-ans virtually everywhere, Skinker-DeBaliviere is home to frequent potlucks and half-hourly church bell chimes. The residents are friendly, and students are more likely to chill at the Washington University Cooperative than rage at the frats.

The area benefits from a number of nearby attractions in Forest Park as well as the conve-niently located Skinker MetroLink stop. It’s a neighborhood welcoming not only to bikes but to cars, with sufficient parallel parking spaces for students looking to drive to campus.

For those interested in the lower pricing options provided by non Residential Life hous-ing, this area is ideal; properties owned by Quadrangle Housing, which is affiliated with the University, are also popular among students.

The east end of the neighborhood is also close to the medical school campus, making the area perfect for undergraduate and medical stu-dents looking for a nice place to live.

Located between the general boundaries of Big Bend Boulevard, Skinker Boule-vard, Olive Street and campus, this general

neighborhood provides a number of perks over other living locations.

The most obvious advantage to living north

of campus is being close to the Delmar Loop. Being able to walk to your favorite restaurants and bars without having to worry about a ride home is a major convenience, and with new security policies, the Loop is safer than ever.

Generally, the farther north one trav-els from campus, the cheaper housing will be, though as you go past the Loop, you may want to think about how late you will be walking home.

Some of the nicest—and safest—housing is the area closest to campus, situated in the quasi-gated community. But the majority of buildings are houses, not apartments, which can mean higher rent. Additionally, the limited entrances make driving cars in and out incon-venient—expect friends who try driving over to get confused and frustrated.

New this year are the Lofts of Washing-ton University, located at Delmar and Enright Avenue. The Lofts carry a hefty price tag, but for those who can afford living in the new Uni-versity digs, you’ll get easy access to a grocery store and the number of bars and restaurants

on the Loop. The project achieved LEED Platinum certification earlier this year and will continue expanding in the next few years. Underneath the Lofts are the all-night Peacock Diner and United Provisions, a Schnucks alter-native within walking distance, and technology store Endless Electronics is set to fill the build-ing’s remaining retail space.

Just to the west are Greenway Place and Washington Avenue, both home to a plethora of luxurious apartment buildings. The Univer-sity owns several buildings in this area, all of which are well-maintained and include utili-ties, though they are somewhat small. Those who want to get off of the administration’s radar will find plenty of beautiful and spacious apartments at reasonable prices.

The area north of Delmar, though not as externally pleasant, offers apartments just as spacious and appealing as the other areas. Prices are generally lower here, and park-ing is plentiful. But the path is not very safe, and crime is a more regular problem in this neighborhood.

NORTH OF CAMPUS

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Apartments located north of campus are in close proximity to the Delmar Loop, and prices in this area are generally lower. With new security policies here, north of campus is also safer than ever.

Skinker is full of Wash. U. students living through ResLife, Quadrangle Housing and regular landlords.


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With the notorious housing-decision season upon us, tension and uncertainty have risen among some roommates, friends and frenemies. But the infamous three-stage process, wrought year after year with inevitable drama, confusion and stress, does not have to be such a headache. According to Associate Director of Residential Life Tim Lempfert, a crucial first step to housing selection success is to become familiar with the process.

For all those applying for housing through the Residential Life housing lottery, below is a simplified, step-by-step summary of the rounds, rules and realities of the process.

NUMBERSIn mid-January, lottery numbers were

posted on WebSTAC for all students cur-rently residing in Residential Life housing. Students eligible for the Residential Col-lege Round also received an additional lottery number only for use in Round One. Students should now have registered for housing in order to review housing options, search for roommates and submit a housing petition.

Before they can enter the lottery process, students must submit a $450 appli-cation fee, billed immediately to their student accounts unless they receive finan-cial assistance from Student Financial Services.

PRE-HOUSINGPre-Housing Round petitions were due

Jan. 22 for those students seeking special accommodations, including medical and disability, as well as groups of students seeking to fill an off-campus apartment through the Apartment Homesteading process.

Homesteading is available for residents living in off-campus apartments through Residential Life if at least one current resi-dent finds a group of fellow students to completely fill the apartment.

The homesteading option is a perk for students, particularly juniors, who live off campus, as it provides stability and lets the homesteaders know where they will live next year without having to apply through the stressful Round process.

ROUND 1Round 1 selections, for which peti-

tions are due by Feb. 26, will take place on March 2 for groupings of students seeking to stay in their respective residential col-lege. Up to 60 percent of rooms in each residential college can be filled during this round. In Round One, lower lottery num-bers—this is the smaller, ResCollege lottery number—are favored.

Village BLOC and Apartment Group petitions are also due by Feb. 26. Students seeking Apartment Group Housing can petition for 4-12 students to live in Univer-sity Terrace, Rosedale Court, Greenway Place or The Lofts of Washington Univer-sity within close proximity of one another. Up to 40 percent of these areas will be filled through the group housing round.

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ROUND 2In Round 2, Millbrook Square Apartments,

Village East, Rosedale, University Terrace, Greenway, University Drive, The Lofts, 520 Kingsland and 6665 Washington will be filled. Students must register and submit petitions between March 3 and 5 and are notified of the assignment on March 7. They must accept or deny their housing placements by March 17. As in Round One, low numbers are preferential.

ROUND 3

Round 3 fills available spaces left over from Round One on the South 40 and in Village and Lopata Houses. Students seeking to live with roommates from other residential colleges must petition in this round, and priority is given first to sophomores, then juniors, then seniors, with high general lottery numbers as the most advanta-geous. Students must register and submit petitions between March 20 and March 23 and are notified of their assignments on March 25.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTSIn a rolling process beginning March

27, Residential Life administratively places those students who have not been assigned housing after Round Three.

To ease the stress of this season and the future, Lempfert said students should start as early as possible in searching for roommates and considering housing preferences and compatibility.

“Students should start early in thinking about who they want to live with, types of roommates—lifestyle, schedule, interests—and communicating to make sure they’re on the same page about the housing option they want to pursue,” Lempfert said.

Residential colleges held information ses-sions within the past month to assist students with questions about the lottery process, and more information about the housing lottery can be found on the Residential Life website.

ROUND 1Applications due Feb. 26Selection date March 2

ROUND 2Applications due March 3-5Notification date March 7

LOTTERY NUMBERSPosted Jan. 20

PRE-HOUSINGApplications due Jan. 22

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Oh, so one of your suitemates is studying abroad next semester? That’s too bad, because your suite/apartment will be a lot less excit-ing without the extra person. Or not! Now, you have a free room to use however you want. After you “find a way in” to the room, you can begin your planning. But what shall become of this extra suite space?

A THEATERLower the bed as far as you can and push it up

against one side of the wall as a couch. Then go to Best Buy, invest in a projector, set it up and voila…you now have your own private theater. Project movies, TV shows or video games on the largest wall and set up extra pillows or chairs to increase the sitting space. Now instead of schlepping down to the Tivoli or another movie theater, you can see shows on the big screen right next door. Add

popcorn or gum under the seats for that extra cinema vibe.

A CLUBPut the bed in the common room (hello, extra

sofa space) and suddenly you have an empty room with tons of space for dancing around and raving. Get all the Christmas lights you can find and hang them up all around the room in preparation for Friday night. Then turn the desk into a disc-jockey station, turn on the strobe lights and invite your whole floor to party. Just hope you don’t live above the faculty fellows!

A BAND ROOMMove out the wooden furniture, bring in the

drum set and the amps, hang up sound barriers to keep in the noise, get a couple guitar stands in there and get ready to jam. Maybe there’s not that much space, but hey, you have to start somewhere! Besides, everyone is tired of hearing about bands that start in small garages; small-dorm-room bands will be the

next big thing to hit the music world. Also, if you have a balcony, you can step outside and do your best impression of a Beatles rooftop concert. Once again, hope you don’t live above the faculty fellows, unless they’re into that old time rock ’n’ roll.

A DINING ROOMHow cute! Get the rest of your suitemates and

any other friends together and have a nice family dinner. Use the desk (or steal a table from the study room down the hall) and set up a dinner spread. Plus, you have extra bed sheets to use as a tablecloth. Whether the meal is Easy Mac, pasta with meat sauce, or an all-out spread of turkey and mashed potatoes, the dining room will make your stay at Wash. U. much homier.

AN ART GALLERYWho needs the Kemper Museum of

Contemporary Art when you have your own right next door? Simply remove all the furniture and use the walls to hang lovely works of art.

The barrenness of the room will only add to the museum-esque feeling, allowing you to curate dif-ferent exhibits. You can also add your own security system by hiring a friend to remind visitors: “Do Not Touch!”

A “PLAYROOM”There’s no need to get into much detail here.

Keep the bed. Keep the sheets. Keep whatever you like to have around (no judgment need be passed. For more information, see “Fifty Shades of Grey” or the romance novel of your choice.

A TRASH ROOMThis is not advisable or sanitary, but for those out

there who are truly lazy, you could use the extra room to store trash. Yes, it will smell bad. Yes, it will probably attract some maggots. Yes, everyone who comes into your suite will hate you; you may even hate yourself a little bit. But on the bright side, you’ll never have to walk those extra steps to the trash room down the hall ever again.

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