Saturday, December 6, 2014

No wheels? No Problem!


Will life at Disney suck without a car? 

In short Yes! 

Ok its not all that bad. Here are a few tricks I learned in my time there that definitely made it more bearable. 

  1. When choosing roommates, make sure that at least one of you has a car 
It just makes life so much easier when you first arrive. That first grocery shopping trip you take will be so much better with a car rather than taking the bus. Also, if you ever want to make a trip to the beach you will need a car for that. And if you are one who likes to stay until the parks close, you will get home much faster and more comfortably by car then DCP bus. That's the time when all your fellow cast mates are getting off work tired, with hurting feet and the buses are completely packed. You don't want to deal with that. But all that being said… make sure you at least offer to help with gas!!! Especially if you’re the one asking to be driven places they weren't  planning on going. 

Roommate Survey Template

I went back through my DCP Spring/Spring Advantage 14 page to find a roommate survey that i thought tackled a lot of good points for you to address when telling about yourself and looking for good matches for roommates. Please feel free to add or remove subjects.

Here are the numbers I would recommend paying attention to when looking for roommates
#12, #14 - All Numbers in DCP Details are vitally important - #1,2,3 in Lifestyle
All the rest are just good to know to see if you might make good friends

Choosing Your Roommates




Not gonna lie this is a tricky thing. Mostly because many of you who are applying for this program have never really had to live on your own. If you have lived in an apartment with roommates for school you definitely have a leg up. But if you are like me and spent 4 years in college living in dorms (not by choice my school made me), consider yourself completely disadvantaged. Yeah maybe you have had to choose one roommate before, but try choosing 5 or 7 others to live with! Now that's a tall order!

So how do you tackle this task?