Let's just dive right in. Last year my housing plans collapsed due to some interesting situations. To be completely honest, one of my friends was frightened by a few of the "illegal activities" of my other friends. Understandable but I don't think she realized just how much that affected the rest of us. A year later, I'm living in the most amazing house on campus. It has a purpose to it and our program is for empowering women (not just women on our campus but the high school girls in the community as well). The other girls are great but there's just one problem: I'm temporary. The original plan included a fifth girl that was not me but she is studying abroad and so they asked me if I would like to live here for the first semester. I'm thrilled but I already feel like I'm being treated second fiddle. I'm contributing more than my fair share to the house and trying to seem like I'm 100% dedicated even though I'm not. I have a lot of great ideas of what I would like to turn this house into but I fear the repercussions of contributing so much only to get the boot during the second semester. I understand that I agreed to these conditions but I don't think I anticipated my emotional response. Two of the girls have already said they wish we could all just stay together plus the fact that the house is more than capable of accomodating a 6th person as long as we could get it approved by Residence Life (difficult but certainly not impossible.

I am at a crossroads and here are my options:

1. enjoy the house while I'm here but keep my distance because I'm leaving
2. enjoy the house while I'm here and contribute so much that they realize they can't live without me and so they fight for me to stay
3. start fighting for my own ability to stay
4. completely stay removed from everything the house stands for so that way my heart is broken if/when I'm forced to leave
   

I hate letting people down and so I would really love the opinions of people who are removed from the situation (other than the fact that you already have my point of view...but still). Thanks. I'm sending you all some love.

Interesting question because as a college student, I have two answers.

The person who lived in my (college) house before me was a visiting professor from Russia. She didn't sleep in my room though so I don't even know the last person to live in my room.

As for my house at home, the last person to live in my room before me was my big sister. I moved into her room when she got married and moved out.

It's very different from the way she had it. Her room was powder blue and very calm. As for the room now, it's citrus green and gives you a jolt of energy just be looking at.

I guess even the closest of sisters have silly differences.