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Page 3 • Monday, October 13, 2003
Boy meets girl
living with the opposite sex poses challenges, offers rewards for students
By Katie Wigginton
THE BATTALION
Another long and stressful day of classes faces Jane. She manages
toget to class and sit back in her chair to retain as much information
as possible. Eventually, her day ends and she cannot wait to get home.
As soon as she walks in the door, she is comforted and consoled by her
al roommate: a man.
On the other side of campus, Andrea Nichols finishes up her
classes and heads off to work. After completing all her bustling hours
she gets to head home for a quick nap before returning, but not before
she boxes more items belonging to her former husband.
Opposite sex cohabitation works for many people but is not the
fight path for everybody. Much of the lasting capability depends on the
comparison and contrast of the individual’s goals for college, person-
straits and maturity.
“I’m really enjoying the time spent with him,” said Jane, a senior
elementary education major.
Jane and John, who did not want to give their real names, have
shared an apartment for five months now.
While John has already graduated and is looking for work, Jane is
now dealing with the hard effects of still having tests to study for and
papers to write.
does get hard and the big problem for me is self-discipline,”
Jane said.
She said that while dealing with the living habits of a male room-
ite can present problems, the shock is minimal.
“As long as you are in a mutual, monogamous relationship and have
:p trust with each other, everything should work out and the fights
mid be minimal,” Jane said.
Kristin Hill, a graduate communications student, feels those guide
lines proved just as true for her.
I has been living with her husband, David, for more than two
years and made the transition from an all-girl residence hall to a house
and husband appear easy and smooth.
“After we got married and began living together, our grades actual-
lygotbetter. It was like having a built-in study partner,” Hill said.
While Kristin is still facing the pressures of a graduate’s schedule,
David has already graduated and is working for the Saturn dealership
in College Station.
and her husband did not live together before marriage primari-
y for religious reasons. To prepare, they attended a marriage prepara-
seminar through their church and had a trained counselor assist
i in deciding several of the important factors that cohabiting cou
ples would face.
“We’ve succeeded because of who we are together and that does
»ialways work for all couples,” Hill said.
Nichols, a senior education major, can attest to Hill’s statement.
Nichols lived with her husband for a little more than one year and is in
the process of filing for a divorce.
“It was more of personality clashing than anything else,” she said.
“Being in school and working full-time did not help the situation either.”
Nichols began married life by making her husband home cooked
meals every night. That all changed, she said, when her job became a
handful.
Now, Nichols is looking at single life again with an optimistic view
despite the loss of a roommate and husband.
“I still believe that you can work out anything if you try hard
enough and 1 would wait until the both of you are done with degrees
before making the move,” she said.
Joe Medina, a senior accounting major who lived with three women
last year, said he and his former roommates would never fight about
things like leaving the toilet seat up or whether the house smelled like
vanilla. If they fought, he said it would be about personality differences.
Ivan Flores • THE BATTALION
“You don’t get along with people because of personality, not
because she’s a girl,” he said.
Medina grew up sharing a bathroom with a sister, so it wasn’t dif
ficult for him to adjust to women’s habits.
“It might be a shock to someone who wasn’t used to things like lots
of soaps in the bathroom or something, but 1 had been accustomed to
that so I was OK,” Medina said.
Gabriela Cantu, a senior biomedical sciences major, decided to live
with a man because of convenience and safety.
“If something broke, I felt like a guy would be more equipped to
deal with it,” Cantu said.
She said she felt safer at night because she thought she would be
protected if someone broke in. However, she said it might be awkward
for some women to live with the opposite sex.
“Guys tend to be more crude, “ Cantu said, “so some girls might be
uncomfortable if you don’t know them well and don’t set ground rules
for living with each other.”
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