All we needed was some airflow.
When you’re a college student, you become very resourceful. You don’t get a lot of sleep, and you don’t have a lot of money. The only thing you have is a lot of classes and studying in front of you. We have a couple of weekends where we party hard, but we earn that. Myself and a couple of friends I met, wanted to get our own apartment. We were all tired of living in the dorm under the scrutiny of the house mother. We pooled our money and got the only apartment the five of us could afford. We found a furnish bungalow about two blocks from the college. None of us cared about the fact that there wasn’t air conditioning’ at least not at that time. We cared about the air conditioning when we finally moved in. We had three bedrooms, two baths and five guys all vying for the living room, where the AC unit was. We had been in the house for two weeks when we had a heatwave hit. We were all scrambling for fans. We were trying to get enough airflow to get the air conditioning into our rooms. We discussed getting a couple of window air conditioners, but it wasn’t in our budget at that time. We stuck it out for the full year before we found another apartment opening up. It had four bedrooms,, five baths, and there was air conditioning in the entire apartment. The apartment house was built just for students in our college. We put in our application as soon as they opened up the office.