Floating in a bubble, college students belong to a species of their own. Before being let out into the wild of the forest, they need to be readied in the protected environment of the zoo. A sense of responsibility, financial acumen and an awareness of one’s surroundings — the key tenets to adulting collide head first with this bubble everyday, threatening its very existence. There’s no better place to see how this bubble is burst than in their natural habitat

I wanted to see what a typical day in the life of a college student apartment is like, but life in 73 Thatcher St. is anything but typical.

11a.m. Morning blues

It’s a staid Friday morning inside apartment 202. With frigid temperatures and looming finals, the motivation to get out of bed is threadbare. This is even truer for Anuj Jain, who has a 9 a.m. Computer Science discussion to attend.

By the time Jain returns from class, one of his roommates Tony Shehata has woken up and is in the middle of making himself a bagel. He adds an extra one in the toaster for Jain and the two of them take their breakfast to the living room.

It is an L-shaped apartment, which is very clearly broken into two parts. The main door opens into the long arm of the L, with a kitchen on one side and two bedrooms opposite to it. Directly opposite the main door is the pantry, sandwiched between two washrooms.

Despite it being a four-bedroom apartment, the living room is sizable. Aside from fitting in a L-shaped couch, a long coffee table, a TV with an accompanying stand, there…