College Concerns: Meal Plans, Homework, and Furniture

Alamo City Moms Blog has partnered with CORT Furniture to bring our readers important information about how their services can be used in all stages of life. As always, we work with trusted partners who offer great services for San Antonio families. Today, we welcome a guest post from Linda Melendez.


They grow up so quickly, don’t they?

One minute they’re learning to crawl on the carpet of your new home, and the next they’re scrambling to get out of your hold, jump in their car, and embark on a new journey: college.

These have been the fastest 18 years of my life, and this fall has been one of the most emotional as I watched my daughter Serena prepare for college. She was accepted into the University of Texas at San Antonio. I couldn’t be more proud.

We spent this past summer shopping and savoring our time together. Sure, she would be attending school in-state, but I was not braced to go from a mother hen to an empty-nester. (Are any of us?) We also had work to do before August. We had a mental checklist of things to consider: Does she need a meal plan? How much ramen is too much ramen? Should she take her car freshman year? Does she need furniture?

Furniture?!

All of a sudden, our traditional task list blurred into the background. We were unsure how to go about making Serena’s unfurnished college apartment a home. After the meal plan and too much ramen, our family wasn’t left with a big budget for furniture.

While Serena and I made a valiant effort thrifting, we didn’t find pieces fit for a bedroom or cozy college living room. My mother-in-law offered her guest bedroom set, which was incredibly kind. However, Serena has severe allergies to cats, and my MIL has about 15 furry rescues. After Serena’s tenth consecutive sneeze, we had to politely decline the thoughtful offer.

It was a YouTube commercial that gave us our much-needed answer. CORT Furniture claimed they had the answer for student housing needs. We called, and sure enough, we found the perfect solution to our problem.Cort Collage

CORT offers students the option to rent three rooms of sleek and stylish furniture starting at $99 a month. They promised all items to be in showroom condition, and they were. Each piece—from her bedroom dresser to the living room sofa—was like brand new.

While we were running around getting last-minute items like a shower caddy and welcome mat, CORT delivered and assembled Serena’s furniture in her new apartment, taking it from an empty space to a home in a few hours.

We didn’t have to worry about putting anything together! And when summer comes and she returns home, CORT comes back by and picks it all up. Too simple, too easy.Cort Collage 2

Serena is loving her first semester at college—her new friends, courses, roommate, and apartment. I look forward to her daily phone calls, and feel confident we made the right decision using CORT to start her college career off right.

Our decision to give her a car? Maybe not so much…

Brooke
Brooke graduated high school from right here in San Antonio. After twelve years of living everywhere from Colorado to Greece, London to Atlanta, she and her husband have made San Antonio home and have become parents to their daughter and son. Brooke loves finding undiscovered activities around the city and dragging her kids along! She is a runner, an amateur cook that loves trying out San Antonio’s growing culinary scene and is actively involved in non-profit organizations in San Antonio.

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