Collegiate Bullying - My Story
*Warning - quotes have profanity In August 2017, at age 19, I transferred to the University of Colorado Boulder. Moving into my first apartment with a friend from high school and two unknown roommates seemed like an exciting step into the adult world. Little did I know that bullying doesn’t stop after 12th grade, and that this would be one of the hardest things I have ever endured. This adult experience that I was so excited for quickly turned into a nightmare. I signed the lease for one bedroom with high school friends. The leasing office assigned two roommates to us, with the promise that, “ WE WILL ROOMMATE MATCH!” As it turned out, they matched me with my exact opposite. The apartment was two bedrooms, two bathrooms, with a shared living space for the four tenants. A measly 810 square feet, it offered just 202.5 square feet per person. Or 162 square feet, if you count a boyfriend living there illegally. I moved into the apartment, met one of the other gi