AC-Town

It became an overnight joke with our friends at Cedarville. Rumors and jokes started coming in, as we tried to guess what this "AC-Town" actually was. Some of the best were that:

     1. AC-Town was really a sketch frat house. Or...
     2. AC-Town was really some haunted mansion. Or...
     3. AC-Town was really a cult (I'm still not convinced this one isn't true).

Yep. This response would come back to haunt me...

Boring but important backstory:
AC-Town was birthed out of a housing situation on the south campus of Ohio State University. Jake, Brian, and myself, three current or former department heads from Resound Radio (Cedarville's student radio station) are interning in Columbus this summer at 104.9 The River. One of our members had a connection with one of the men in this house, and had found space for us to sub-lease this summer.

But then we started getting more information about the house--or, as they call it, "The Shed."

Notice the key phrases...

Now, I realize that I'm a digital media major, but even I can do the math on this one. Six beds for nine people does not add up to the odds being in our favor. Crammed together with not enough beds in a strange house with strange people in a strange city.

And then I found out one of the guys goes by the nickname "Bearclaw." 

Oh, AC-Town. 

Oh Brian, no reason to be nervous...........

I arrived on Saturday afternoon. Brian and Jake arrived Tuesday night. Within just a few minutes of having all three of us there, we shut the bedroom door and conversed. The place was dirty, not well-kept, crammed, old, etc. We quickly decided that it was time to turn our backs on AC-Town forever and find a happy, quiet, and clean apartment elsewhere. A place with space for us, as opposed to trying to share a small house with 9-12 people. 

Without enough space to even sleep. 

Yeah, it was already time to bid adieu to AC-Town.

That was a pretty good summary of how we all felt.

We considered sneaking out. You know, tossing our stuff out the window in the middle of the night and all that? Not suspicious at all. But eventually, we thought better of it and decided to check out some apartments closer to the radio station in the morning. 

This summed it up nicely as well.

We held off on sneaking out. We went to our internship training day and hit it off really well with our fellow interns. Afterwards came all the apartment shopping, which none of us had actually done before.

 

We were more lost than the proverbial needle in a haystack.

We ended up finding one potential apartment complex that seems promising. More looking to come over the weekend. Hopefully, we'll be able to escape AC-Town for good on Monday morning.

But until then...

There are other hilarious little details and such. You can ask us about those individually. But now you're caught up on what's going to be a fantastic and infamous and story-filled and
 hopefully AC-Town(less) summer.