Apartment Search 2.0....over?

So I think I've decided to end my apartment search and go with the one I looked at yesterday. It was small and just barely in my price range, but I'm already just tired of looking. I've been looking since March and all the places I found online were out of my price range or really crappy. I finally let a friend talk me into looking at the place she lives and at least seeing how much it would cost.

The answer is just barely too much. But I'm taking it anyway because it's beautiful and has everything I need. A bathroom, a kitchen (the kitchen is gorgeous) and most importantly a washer and dryer in the unit. It's small, but I don't need anything big. And when the lease is up for that place I am definitely going to move somewhere cheaper, I just need someplace nice with a washer and dryer and it needs to be close to school for one more year. There are, however, perks to moving to this place. One of them is that it is a "green" building meaning that it's partially constructed from recycled materials as well as the furniture in the lounges and on the sky deck, it has a "green roof" which basically means they've planted things on the roof to reduce the temperature of the city and effects of the urban heat island and also to reduce the heating and cooling loads on the building. There is a recycling room separate from the garbage chute and there is free Starbucks in the internet lounge on the 1st floor. The keychain discount program, the huge TV on the 24th floor in the resident lounge, guest parking, various soda machines in the building, package receiving, 24 hour doorman, the fact that I have a friend living there already and proximity to everything I could ever need (Target is next door, Jewel, Whole Foods and Dominick's are all in the area as well as the Red, Orange and Green Line stops) kind of pushed my decision forward.

The Living/Bedroom/Everything Room- the door doesn't open, the HVAC system for the unit is in it. The window opens into a Romeo and Juliet Balcony

The Kitchen-the washer and dryer are in the closet to the left.

I guess this is what I get for going to a school in an expensive neighborhood. But when I look back, I just don't think I'd be happy at Loyola even though rent in Roger's Park is cheaper.

So I have a place to live next year. Now the only thing left is to try and figure out how I'm going to pay off all these loans when I graduate.

Scary.