Disadvantages of hostel life essay

Disadvantages of hostel life 

It is here that they spend the bulk of their time and get the first serious bases of independent life, it is with him (dormitory) that such pleasant memories and acquaintances are associated.

However, living in a hostel also includes a number of negative factors associated with "some" inconvenience and disadvantages. Chernivtsi student dormitories are no exception.

Undoubtedly, the most urgent issue is ensuring the comfort of the home. This problem has long been relevant. The fact is that in the hostel it is forbidden to use the majority of electric household appliances (for the safety of the students themselves), such as an electric kettle, iron or fireplace. If you can not do without the first, because you can use a regular kettle, then without the second is unlikely. Instead, permissible household appliances (computer, TV, refrigerator) in university dormitories in Chernivtsi set up an additional fee.

Ideally, a dormitory should have a specially equipped room where it would be possible to wash or tidy things, but in the meantime nothing like this is simply absent in most dormitories.

"If we talk about our hostel, then, in principle, the living conditions are normal: there are kitchens, showers (now for repairs - aut.), A lounge room (with a TV, computers and a soft part of furniture). We try to solve some of the problems by ourselves, something with the help of students ", - notes Anna Yermakova, the commandant of the 1st dormitory of Chernivtsi University.

Another problem with a seasonal household plan is the heating issue. Very often the batteries, which, probably, still "remember" the students of the late 70's, the touch of the winter is slightly different from the batteries in the summer and perform more "decorative" than the heating function. True, lately this problem is beginning to be solved, however, the pace could be higher.

The feature of the rooms in the hostel is the presence of already "rare" furniture. But they do not create the desired comfort. Their replacement is also not superfluous.

Prokopchuk Igor (a 3rd-year student living in the first-rate dormitory) commented on the characteristics of a dormitory: "The only significant drawbacks for me are two things. Firstly, this is a sanitary state: it is sometimes quite unpleasant to go to the toilet when under the feet "puddles" of unknown origin ... Secondly, a little annoying state of inventory. It even happens that the door from the bedside can stay in the hands ... But, no matter how, I like to live here. It is clear that the benefits of living in a hostel are more than shortcomings. "

Hot water - is not the most painful problem. Already in recent years, hostels have started installing electric boilers, but the shower is usually on the repair and the use of them is not enough.

It is these problems that will be called almost every resident of the hostel. "It's possible to tolerate everything else," says student Romanyuk Taras (lives in the hostel for three years), - I personally do not like the fact that sometimes students allow themselves to be smoked in a hostel. And, moreover, I believe that many problems arise because of the lack of a culture of behavior of the students themselves. "

This means not an everyday, but an organizational aspect ... Student hostel differs from the usual "communal" first of all by the fact that it is calm here only late at night and at the weekend: people are ambitious here and seek constant communication. However, before that, as a rule, get used to ...

Whatever kind of household inconvenience, and people in the dormitory does not diminish. Moreover, there is another problem - shortage of places! For example, in the hostels of ChNU, compared with last year, the average number of residents increased by one hundred people in each hostel. Every year, dozens of students, regardless of desire, can not go to the hostel. Funds for new buildings or, at least, for the restoration of old ones, as always is not enough.

I applied for comments to the director of the Chernivtsi National University's Kyryluk Nicholas University: "The problems of the hostels are well known to us. Every year the situation improves. Of course, there is a lack of funding (at least 3.5 million hryvnias are needed every year for holding the campus). If this year the proceeds were at an appropriate level, this year the situation is more complicated: first of all, it is connected with the Tender Chamber (all payments to state organizations and institutions in Ukraine are carried out through it - aut.). Now it's not known at all whether it will exist, so there is a delay in funds. But anyway, the University is trying to improve the state of affairs. So, last year new refrigerators, gas cookers, beds, tables, chairs were bought, all shower rooms were installed in the hostels. However, only our efforts were not enough to solve all problems in a comprehensive manner. The only way out is to organize this process at the state level. "

          Of course, the problems of student dormitories are known both to the authorities, to the management of educational institutions, and to student self-government. So, back in 2006, the Department of Economics and Finance, the Department of Higher Education of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Student Council decided to launch a state program