Managing a healthy college relationship

Once esteemed, the campus setting is viewed as a breeding ground for reckless lifestyle choices, depression, suicide, murder and many other ills. Ironically, while many people forge lifelong relationships and find love in institutions of higher learning, college relationships are one of the main causes of this unfortunate predicament.

It was raining heavily the day Leila Otieno was admitted to Moi University in Eldoret. Her parents, after completing the admission process, went home, leaving her to find her way around the university on her own.

Surrounded by strangers at the expansive university, Leila says she felt homesick and lost. But at that time, a friend she had known shortly before joining university called her, telling her that he had been admitted into the university’s town campus.