By Silma Suba
Pest problems. Unclean apartments. Uncooperative staff. Stolen items.
Students living in the residence halls have a seemingly endless list of complaints.
The QF Residence Halls are adequately staffed with security persons, maintenance departments, Community Development Advisors (CDAs) and Residence Hall Directors (RHDs) who are meant to create a safe and home-like environment for the students to live on campus.
However, despite the availability of the respective staff and facilities, many students have faced a number of inconveniences living in the residence halls.
Ibrahim Al-Rajhi, a freshman at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, has lived in the residence halls for two years now. He says, he has experienced some problems time and again.
On my first day at the halls, I was greeted by dead roaches, dust and dirt on my apartment floors and walls,