Domicile is where I'm surrounded by the people I love. Whether this is in my hometown, Santa Barbara, California, or in Fort Worth, what makes a dwelling house a home is the people yous share it with.

This year, I'm a sophomore at Texas Christian University and living in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority firm. Information technology'southward hard to describe the dynamic of my living state of affairs because despite existence called a "firm," information technology feels much more like an all-girls dorm than anything else. Just I wouldn't want it any other way.

Coming into TCU as a freshman, I was nervous to leave the house I lived in for my unabridged life in Santa Barbara, but information technology didn't have long before I started calling my shoebox-sized room in Foster Hall "abode." The first time it slipped out and I told my sister on the telephone that I was walking "home" from class, I couldn't believe I called my room that. After this, I realized that the day I became best friends with my neighbors is the 24-hour interval that TCU became home. It wasn't when I perfectly busy my room, or when it was most clean, the moment TCU became home was when I establish a community around me.

Dorm life has its pros and cons, but at the finish of the day information technology's something I believe all college students should experience. The communal showers and the dark hallways will not be missed, only the liveliness and the relationships formed will be. Living in a dorm forced me into more unexpected friendships than I can count — and it changed my college feel for the meliorate.

On meridian of this, the location was swell and null felt similar a far walk. I felt connected to the civilisation at TCU considering of the eatables existence and then shut by. I would non alter a thing nigh my experience living in the dorms. Would I desire to do it all again for the second year? No, thus my decision to alive in my sorority business firm.

Living down the hill in the Kappa Alpha Theta house has been nothing but a pleasurable experience for me this year. I honey the phrase, "You don't really know someone until you live with them," because this has reigned true more e'er for me this yr.

Because of COVID taking over my freshman year, I never felt all that close to my sorority sisters simply because nosotros weren't able to take any large grouping events. This was one of the prominent reasons I wanted to alive in the KAO house so desperately. Even though we're nevertheless in the thick of the offset semester, I feel so much more connected to my sisters.

I have formed a plethora of new friendships this year only as a result of living in the house. The community that has adult has completely changed my college feel. Although the location may non be every bit central equally it was for me last year, I dear being so close by to the rest of the Greek housing. Being able to walk just a few steps and be in one of my friend's Greek housing is something I will never take for granted. Additionally, Male monarch Family Commons is basically in my backyard, which I can't complain near either. Living in Greek Village is lively, fun and definitely something I would recommend to younger students.

To me, home isn't near the roof you live under, it'southward about who you live under that roof with. Whether that may exist in an apartment, a house, a dorm, or a sorority house, dwelling house is where your people are.

Texas Christian University

Total enrollment: 11,938
Female: 59% | Male: 41%

Undergraduate demographics (Fall 2019)
American Indian/Native Alaska: 0.6%
Asian: 2.nine%
Black/African American: v.two%
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 0.2%
Hispanic/Latino: xiv.half dozen%
Multi-indigenous: two%
Not-resident: 4.7%
Unknown: 1.five%
White: 68.2%

Graduate demographics (Autumn 2019)
American Indian/Native Alaska: 0.4%
Asian: iv%
Black/African American: vii%
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 0.3%
Hispanic/Latino: 11.half dozen%
Multi-indigenous: 2.i%
Non-resident: half dozen.4%
Unknown: vii.2%
White: 61%

Grace Morison, xix, is a sophomore at Texas Christian Academy. She is from Santa Barbara, California, and is an early childhood pedagogy major.

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