The spirit of Georgetown is the best of any schools’ in the country. The housing? Not so much. It’s hard to go a day without hearing someone complaining about something related to housing. Most recent, the ire of many students was directed at the housing process for next year and the fact that rising sophomores were often excluded from Phase I selection, whereas many rising juniors and even some seniors found that they wouldn’t be able to live in their most desired places.

In honor of this tragedy and many others (including, but definitely not limited to: vermin infestations, dirty carpets, sub-par plumbing, outdated fixtures/appliances), here is 4E’s list of… 50 Things Better Than Georgetown’s Housing:

1. Instructional continuity
2. Leo’s coffee
3. Losing your GoCard
4. 8am classes

   

5. Hot Chick and Chicken Madness not winning the GUSA election
6. GUTS bus delays
7. The laundry rooms’ notoriously useless dryers
8. Going to Epi on a Sunday night, only to realize it’s closed
9. SaxaNet
10. GuestNet
11. Getting one out of five classes during preregistration
12. Our basketball team this year
13. Getting rejected from every club
14. The bathrooms in Reiss
15. When people are talking obnoxiously on Lau 3
16. Rhino closing
17. Kehoe field
18. Construction
19. Running out of meal swipes
20. Having meal swipes (and having to use them on Georgetown’s food)
21. JT III
22. Brown House not being a thing next year
23. Doing a survey and not winning the promised gift card
24. Getting hurt by the curve
25. Missing Bill Clinton’s speech because you have class
26. TAs
27. Sending a well-formatted email to your professor and getting a one word reply
28. Getting rejected from the GAAP group
29. That one kid who incessantly posts in the GAAP group
30. The GAAP group
31. LL Lau
32. Getting stuck behind a tour
33. Roommates who snore (in which case, try this)
34. Lecture captures
35. GoCard swiping machines not working
36. RATS

    

37. Having a final on the last day of finals
38. Georgetown Cupcakes lines
39. When the professor shows up seconds before the class would have been cancelled
40. Getting the snow day email after you’ve already gotten out of bed
41. Having to give directions to a lost stranger on campus
42. DC’s humidity in the summer
43. Trying to get a timely appointment at the Student Health Center
44. The fact that we don’t have a metro stop
45. Our NCAA appearance this year (lol)
46. Hoverboards being banned on campus
47. Class in Walsh and St. Mary’s back-to-back
48. Seeing 38592740372 pictures of cherry blossoms on Instagram
49. Being haunted
50. Nothing

In other words, the only thing worse than the housing system, is the housing system itself. Here’s to another year in Henle.

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