Cue the music: it’s time to start the summer subletter shuffle. Be it the high-rise resident displaced by incoming summer students or the brother hoping to escape the abyss of frat house stank, no one is immune. To commemorate this annual Penn tradition, here’s what you had to say.
“I didn’t get a sublet so I couch-surfed for over a month…I mean I ended up living in an empty room in the Radian for a while which was nice. I paid rent by baking.”— Melissa D. ‘16
“My roommate was addicted to Adderall and was super filthy and had a disgusting smelly charcoal dog when I moved in. A couple weeks later, I couldn’t stand how terrible he smelled so I washed him... and turns out that it’s a white dog… She threatened to sue me when I moved out. Also: never thanked me for washing her dog.”
— Barunie K. ‘14
“The housekeeper stayed 3 hours overtime on her 4 hour shift because she couldn’t stand to leave the house in all its filth. She only did so out of the goodness of her heart because she didn’t want us living in such an unhealthy environment.”
— Elliot O.’17
“There was blood in the fridge….like, dried blood.”
— Jackie C. ‘15
“[The people I was subletting from] told me when I had arrived on their doorstep with all my stuff that their house was being condemned in a month, but I could stay if I wanted. So I did.”
— Anonymous, ‘17
“When I was cleaning, I found a black stick stuck between the closet doors, blocking it from closing. Little did I know that this black stick was the hilt of a giant and VERY sharp black serrated sword. So I stood there like King Arthur amazed at what had just happened and grateful that I had not stabbed myself or someone else when pulling it out.”
— Carlos C. ‘14
