"I was fed up with the rules on campus," reported an anonymous student, GSB '12 said.

This student lives on 189th and Belmont. Like so many students before her, she decide to move off campus due to the campus rules.

"Living off campus, you don't have to sign people in," Jen Ali, GSB '12 said. "You don't have any rules, you get to do whatever you want."

Unfortunately, it is not exactly easy to move off campus.

 "I wanted to move off junior year," Becca Fritton FCRH '12, said. "but I was going abroad so it was going to be difficult to find someone to sublet my apartment."

Colleen Ring, FCRH '12, who also lives on Belmont, says that studying abroad was her main reason for waiting to move off as well.

"It was just going to be too annoying to find someone [to sublet]," she said.

"I also moved off my senior year, but started looking as early as junior year because the process does tend to take a while, and sometimes convincing your parents can be difficult."

There are also some other factors that many forget to take into consideration.

"Finding a place is hard," Sarah Daly, FCRH '12, said. "but once we did it was fine."

Daly lives on 191st in a house near Pugsley's Pizza.

Elisabeth Warren, FCRH '12, and Deanna Minasi, FCRH '12, are roommates who live on 188th and Hoffman.

The two faced some unexpected struggles while trying to find a place to live.

"The hardest thing was getting our parents to be okay with it and finding an affordable place," Warren said.

The two girls moved off junior year and lived in a three-bedroom apartment.         

"The prices are more than you would think for the Bronx, and you have to think about buying food and utilities, and all of that really does add up," Minasi said.

For some, however, the money they save paying a separate rent check as opposed to lumping in housing costs with tuition is enough to convince any parent.

"At first it was hard to convince my parents," Nick Checovich, FCRH '13 said. "but once they heard how much money I would be saving, they really didn't care."

Checovich also had an advantage in moving off campus that many people do not.

"I had some friends that lived in a building on Hoffman," he said, "They suggested I move there, so I did."

This is another benefit of moving off campus. Sometimes limited housing options and the lottery can turn many people to the neighborhoods of the Bronx.

Kaitlin Abrams, FCRH '13, moved off campus because of convenience. 

"We had a large group that wanted to live together, and Terra Nova housing was super accommodating," she said.

For Abrams, living off campus has also had some unexpected benefits.

 "I've been immersed in the Bronx culture living off campus," she said.

Warren agrees.

"It's much easier to do more things in the city," she said. "On campus you're more gated in and secluded."

Ali summarized her thoughts on the entire process.

"I wish I had done it sooner,"  she said.

I have not met a single person who regrets his or her decision to move off-campus.

Everyone wishes he or she had done it sooner. Although there can be some problems with finding a place, it always seems to work out in the end.