Living Off Campus Podcast: Chris and Dianna

Dianna and I decided to make our Podcast about the pros and cons of living off campus. We also discussed the different aspects of living off campus such as landlord rights and tenant rights. We discussed this by using personal experiences and tenant laws of Vermont. To site where we got our information from, we used CVOED Renting in Vermont Informational Handbook for Tenants and Landlords.

While recording the podcast, we found that it was better to jot down some key topic points and elaborate with what came to mind. We covered topics like: Landlord rules, Tenant rues, General safety, Heating, appliances and what to expect when living off campus. I am personally glad that discusses the topic of heat because the house that I live in now was built in the mid to late 1800s, so heating the house is going to be rough. My advice to someone looking off campus is to make sure they have the heating situation understood and know how to deal with it.

The process of making the podcast was relatively easy once when we figured out all of the factors that went into recording. We used a voice recorder to record our podcast; that was the easy part. When it came time to upload the audio files that we had, we ran into some slight problems. First, we tried to upload our files onto Audacity, but we had to convert the Audio files into a WAV format. To do that we just had to convert the files using a website. That was pretty easy to do once we figured it out. We had multiple files to convert because we would stop recording if we made a mistake or wanted to redo what we just said; that took a little bit of time. Once when the files were all converted it was smooth sailing from there. We just edited out piece together and the project came out just fine.

Overall, I hope that people would take our advice when they are thinking about living off campus. I do feel that there are a lot more pros than cons to living off campus; rent is cheaper, you have more freedoms and it’s a great life skill to know how to live on your own before you graduate and get a place of your own.  Make sure that all of your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are working before you move into a new apartment.