Your 6th Roommate by Kacper Wardynski, Residence Advisor
There are many rules in the Residence Contract, and surely there are many ways to bend them, but if you keep reading I will let you in on how to break the most important rule:
3.21 Pets and Guide Animals
Residents are not permitted to keep pets or animals in the accommodation or on the residence property, even temporarily.
There is one small exception to this rule, but please keep it a secret; you can have a pet in a container, as long as this is a kind of animal that will not survive outside the container. The first thing that probably comes to mind is a fish. But fish are boring. They swim. They eat. That’s about it; unless your fish is a shark. “Pet Sharks” as they are commonly known, are not real sharks, but fish in disguise. They look like miniature sharks and can be purchased for roughly $10 at any pet store (not including the tank, but they’re freshwater fish so that won’t be too expensive). Common species are Bala Sharks, Red Tailed Sharks and Black Sharks.
You might want to consider an Axolotl. This aquatic critter looks like a mix of a newt and a Pokemon, and the albino breeds make good pets. You just feed them some ground beef and salad, or to mix it up you can buy them mealworms or dried fruit. Care is fairly simple, feed and clean. Cleaning is fairly simple, pour out water and scrub the tank, but buying an automatic filtration system does most of that for you.
But if you’re the kind of person that’s too busy to invest time in the care of a pet but want to liven up your living room, get an aquatic snail.
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