Hannah Colson

Choosing your first apartment is a huge deal. You may have already moved out of your hometown and have a done a year in college, but living in a dorm with strict rules and hundreds of other students hardly indicates being an independent and responsible individual. When it comes to life in an apartment, it’s on you to do daily tasks like cleaning and cooking meals while still making your way to campus every day for class. So, choosing the right place to live that suits your lifestyle is crucial. Your mom or the dorm workers are no longer there to clean up your mess and guide you through college living.

Hannah Colson

The anticipation is over. The anxiously awaited day has arrived — UF acceptance day. A *huge* congratulations to the new UF class of 2020! We can't for all you baby Gators to be an official part of the Gator Nation. For now, here is a list of 15 things to do now that you've been accepted. 

Hannah Colson

1. 60% larger living space

Transitioning from living at home into a dorm room is not always the easiest to make. All of a sudden, you are thrown into having one or two roommates living just a couple feet away. Even worse, the size of the rooms in traditional on-campus dorms doesn’t leave much to the imagination. But at Ivy House and Windsor Hall, the rooms are much more spacious. Not everything needs to be stuffed under your bed because your closet has much more room. There is no more worrying about bumping (literally) into your roommate while getting ready for class. Trimark’s luxury residence halls definitely provide a much better and more comfortable living environment as compared to traditional University of Florida housing.

Hannah Colson

It’s the morning of your big test. You wake up, look and the mirror and sigh. Ugh, there’s another one—another pimple. While we should be worried about acing the exam, our mind is more focused on this embarrassing honker on our forehead. Aren’t these supposed to be gone after those awkward teenager puberty years? Not so much.

While acne may be the curse of stressed-out college students everywhere, it actually affects a wider age range than we may think.

Hannah Colson

Let’s face it, acne sucks. It’s a never-ending cycle that doesn’t seem to ever stop, no matter what age you are.  

You’ve probably been disappointed by more than a few face washes that haven’t quite lived up to their claims, and you have the full bottles underneath your sink to prove it.

UF DORMS RANKED AMONGST “MOST LUXURIOUS” IN THE NATION

Students at universities around the country can finally say goodbye to timeworn on-campus housing and hello to private bathrooms and luxury suites.

published on Trimark Properties apartments blog

Hannah Colson
UF Dorms

DesignCurial, an online architectural and design site, surveyed more than 500 dorms in order to come up with a list of the top 10 most luxurious dorms in the nation. From University of Oregon to the University of Florida, schools all over the country are creating a completely new lifestyle for incoming freshman.

Gone are the days when three students were forced to live in a ten-by-ten room with indoor-outdoor carpet. Their parents might have lived in a 70-year-old brick building or shared a communal bathroom without air-conditioning, but today's college students are enjoying luxury living when they attend college.

Skinny shaming: yes, it is a real thing.

A personal perspective on the least accepted form of body shaming

Hannah Colson

(published on studentbodyuf.com)

When I was 5 years old, I started playing softball. I began traveling all over Florida and outside of the state for tournaments with my travel team.

At the time, when I told people I played softball at an elite level or even when I tell people now, I always got the same thing: “You don’t look like a softball player.” And whenever I got hurt or got hit with a ball, which was pretty much all the time, one of my coaches always said the same thing to me: “You need to put some meat on those bones.”