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My first year at JBU, I lived in Walker Residence Hall. Walker is the high-class, prime real-estate on campus: it's new, it's in the middle of the campus, and it's attached to the student centre. Now, I live in John Alvin Brown Residence Hall. J. Alvin has been described as… well, the general idea is that it's just not a nice place to live. Some people say that living in J. Alvin will leave you cheated.

I can say from experience that the opposite has been all the better for me. I lived in Walker my first year here and the experience was awful. I was privledged to have the new furniture, the incredibly nice lounge on the third floor that I ended up having to sleep in after my roommate started acting like… well… the antichrist, but I lacked the benefit of forming relationships in Walker. In J. Alvin, I have twelve other people who I am forced^H^H^H^H^H^Hprivledged to get the opportunity to know simply because of the way the suites are set up. Whatever problems that I'm going through in life are their business and vice versa. Sure, I have to deal with dirty showers (which aren't dirty if you make an effort not to dirty them in the first place), no girls on the first and second floors (which sucks until you realise that God gave you a set of legs, and they actually can be utilised to move yourself to a residence hall that does have females), a smell inside the dorms (which I have yet to smell), old furniture (which works just as well as the new furniture except it doesn't look as new) and the lack of a 52 inch television (despite the fact that I'm perfectly content with my ten inch).

The greatest feature of J. Alvin is the people who live in it. I would not trade it for any other living spot on campus.