Accomodation in Campus.

NUR SHAFIQA FITRI BINTI KAMSANI
AL 84680 - SECTION 3
PROMPT 4
3 AUGUST 2010


Accommodation is always provided for the students who study in the particular university. Nowadays, students tend to live in off-campus housing such as apartments instead of dormitories in the campus. Some other students prefer to live in the campus for some reasons. It is clear that living in off-campus housing is better than in the campus as it generates well-rounded students.

A student who lives in the off-campus housing is being able to be independent and responsible person in terms of individual aspect. When he is living without aid provided from anyone, he will be independently-minded as he will learn to carry out his responsibilities to manage the things which students in dormitories do not have to do such as the managing the house properties, settling the bills and care for the house maintenance. This experience will help him a lot in future. In addition, an independent student will try to stand by his own feet thus he will have more privacy than the students in dormitories that share the same space for living. A rented house is conducive for a student to concentrate more on studies as he has more privacy and this may improves his studies too.

In terms of social life, a house outside the campus is much safer than in the campus. It is too often that students properties get stolen in the dormitories. It is because their peers know their properties as they live together and there is a higher chance for the properties such as electronic gadgets, books, clothes and sometimes vehicles to be stolen. This is different to the situation in the off-living campus housing. A student can always place his properties somewhere people do not know in his house so it is safer. Besides, social crime also more likely to happen often in the campus as the students are not living far from each other. A rape case is a good example. The rape cases are always more in the campus than outside the campus because the society of teenagers are often driven by the feelings of rebel and exploring new things no matter good deeds or bad ones. Another benefit of staying in off-living campus housing is the student will have a chance to be part of a larger community. He will be able to be more open-minded to current issues happening in the society and among the students in the campus as well. He also will have a wider network connections between himself and the people around him, in a neighborhood for instance. He will get to know older people and kids, youths and adults too. This experience would surely benefits him in going through the real world outside the campus after studies.

It can be concluded that living in off-campus housing is better than living in dormitories as it builds a student to be a well-rounded person. This prepares the student well to live independently outside the campus in future.