![Nelson Hall Resident Director Kendall Engelke Davis looks over to see what Resident Assistant Chloe Smith paints. For her weekly 8 p.m. staff development meeting in Nelson Shack April 16, Engelke Davis held a watercolor event to relieve stress. “It’s a unique opportunity to get to really invest and be in [RAs’] lives,” Engelke Davis said, “which I consider such a privilege.”](http://thebuclarion.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/041624_KendallEngelkeDavis_Holland_05-1200x800.jpg)
Upperclassmen have four different housing options: live off campus with their parents, live off campus with friends or live on campus in North Village or suite-style housing.
Matthew Berezowski is a junior business major who lives in a house in Roseville. Berezowski makes the seven-minute commute to campus every day, and as a member of the hockey team, he also commutes to practices and games off campus.
Berezowski spends between eight and nine hours on campus everyday, but he then returns home to his three other roommates. He also commutes to his job cleaning the hockey rinks off campus and when working at the Bethel concession stand.
Despite Student Body President Trey Adelsman’s seemingly packed schedule, the senior applied physics, physics and psychology triple major pencils in enough time for a 25-minute commute every day from his parents’ home on the east side of St. Paul. His involvement at Bethel means he spends the majority of his day on campus.
Adelsman lived on campus for his first three years at Bethel, and also held positions with significant time commitments as a resident assistant in Edgren and Lissner. Stepping into a larger role in Bethel Student Government this year, commuting from home was thought to be a challenge.
“I know I’m not the typical commuter as far as presence on campus,” Adelsman said. “I sleep at home. I would say that I live on campus.”
Because of his position as president, he has an office on campus. He uses this space to still have a place of his own.
Emma Lovell is a junior graphic design major who lives in the Danielson apartments in North Village on campus with a roommate. Lovell holds leadership positions in BSG and as a Marketing Design Assistant and Welcome Week Committee Head.
Lovell spends between eight and nine hours a day in the academic buildings, but she also holds a job in the Anderson Center, where she commutes during the day.
Berezowski, Adelsman and Lovell all are active students on campus, but their housing situations and average cost of living are all unique.
Spending |
Commuter (Berezowski) |
Commuter from home (Adelsman) |
Lives in North Village (Lovell) |
Gas per month |
About $120 |
About $160 |
About $45 |
Rent per month |
$600 plus utilities |
Free |
$650 |
Commute |
7 minutes |
25 minutes |
No commute |
Time in the academic buildings per weekday on average |
8.5 hours |
12 hours |
8 hours |
Average grocery/food bill per month |
$800 (no meal plan) |
$120 (Navy C meal plan $500) |
$100 (Navy C meal plan $500) |
Parking per month |
$0 |
$43.75 |
$56.25 |
Total per month |
$1,520 |
$823.75 |
$1,351.25 |
