Live-in staff and students have never, even under the most stifling corporatized conditions, "stopped" developing their intimate and personal lives. The act of living, both with oneself and with others, is the primary condition for the exploration of how to live a personal life. However, this article reflects on the many ways that the conditions of residential life are often not conducive to meaningful personal and intimate explorations. Often, figuring out how to live a meaningful intimate and personal life happens "in spite of" the conditions created by residential life, both for students and live-in staff. As long as residential life organizations pursue corporatization and neoliberalism goes unquestioned, intimacies will be a commodity, and live-in staff and students will have to find ways to flourish and explore their intimate citizenship in spite of control and surveillance. The author argues, instead, that a different path can be forged, that centers intimate citizenship and its development by resisting neoliberalism and pursuing everyday grounded moralities.