Taylor Place is Arizona State University’s lone residence hall on the Downtown Phoenix campus. I am Brendan O'Keeffe, a freshman at ASU's Walter Cronkite School and a resident of Taylor Place.
     Because of the significant growth the downtown campus has seen in recent years, Taylor Place will be a freshman only dorm starting next year. The exception to this is Barrett, ASU's honors college, in which students are allowed, if not expected, to live there for two years. unless you are an honors student, you must search for a place to live off campus after your first year.
     The hall houses nearly every first-year student on the Phoenix campus, and with the  COVID-19 outbreak resulting in a mass exodus from the dorm, plenty of residents have a lot to say about the experiences they had here.
     Cole Bradley is a freshman from Parker, Colorado. He is majoring in sports journalism and living on floor 12 of Taylor Place. Recently, He took a moment to converse with me about how he felt about living in a communal setting this year.