!!not liking dorm life!!

[pharmacytech]

I transfered from a community college to a university and am now a junior-i started (early) this past summer quarter. I will stll be here for two full years (i've decided to apply my last year). Of course, I had to live in a dorm at first...but I live with two of my friends i've known since before high school....there are some juniors+ around, but not many.

I have to say I just don't like living in dorms! Many reasons. Luckily, there are on campus apartments, reserved for "upper classmen"I'm moving to those as soon as I can. I can use loan money to pay for it (its actually cheaper than the dorms)...and I'm pretty sure I can use excess loan money to pay for food (costco can save $$)...trying to avoid working alot to keep the grades up....


Anyone else just not like living in dorms?

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[joanofarc0907]

this is ridiculously off topic

who cares.

the end.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

this is ridiculously off topic

who cares.

the end.

seriously, dorm life is awesome nonetheless, unless you hate gettin some...

 

[thedelicatessen]

I lived in the dorms my freshman year and in on-campus apartments all the other years. It was moderately fun, but I would never want to go back to the dorm life. Sometimes it's just nice to have your own space and not see a zillion people everywhere you go.

 

[Writer1985]

I guess it depends what your dorm is like. I lived in regular first-year dorms (which was ok), then a university-owned apartment (which was horrible), and now this is my second year in a residential college-style dorm (which is absolutely amazing). It's suite-style, 2 rooms for 2 people. I love having people around to do stuff with, but also having my own space when I need it. OP, if your college has a residential college for upperclassmen, you should consider applying. It's way better than any other housing option.

 

[geno2568]

i have a single in a dorm thats on a block with 3 bars on it. Freakin Sweet!

 

[Law2Doc]

Also, like what Mr. Quantumechanic said, it is easier to get some from girls in dorms than those living in apartments...

That was my thought as well. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Good times.

 

[evade]

That was my thought as well. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Good times.

Hahaha. . .we called it "Dormcest."

Seriously, apart from my roommate who sometimes got so drunk that she'd come home and not be able to get into her lofted bed (this caused her GREAT concern), dorm life was AWESOME.

 

[MirrorTodd]

Dorm life for me sucked. I got paired with a fat Japanese business major who did nothing but sleep and download porn. He was a senior and I was a freshman. It was the worst pairing ever. The dorm community sucks at my college too. Nobody interacts. Of course my brothers experience is completely different. He went to UCSC and his dorm life was awesome. They were doing a bunch of group activities i.e. hiking, kayaking, etc. He had a blast there.

 

[solitude]

If you really hate dorm life, avoid certain med schools where almost all M1's live in dorms (Harvard, WashU, Cornell come to mind).

 

[Doctor~Detroit]

Dorm life for me sucked. I got paired with a fat Japanese business major who did nothing but sleep and download porn. He was a senior and I was a freshman. It was the worst pairing ever.

so . . . what was bad about it?

 

[xylem29]

so . . . what was bad about it?

The tissues

 

[MirrorTodd]

The tissues

It sucked because there was no community in the dorms. Everyone kept to themselves and stayed in their own little cliques. I expected more from college and the form life didn't provide. I know it's supposed to be what you make of it, but no one was making anything happen.

 

[Orthonut]

Dorm life for me sucked. I got paired with a fat Japanese business major who did nothing but sleep and download porn. He was a senior and I was a freshman. It was the worst pairing ever. The dorm community sucks at my college too. Nobody interacts. Of course my brothers experience is completely different. He went to UCSC and his dorm life was awesome. They were doing a bunch of group activities i.e. hiking, kayaking, etc. He had a blast there.

lol.

My suitemates first year were cool....but the A*)!@^!*&^!!les that lived on the floor above us I'd like to strangle...apparently, they decided that our building was "the party dorm" and we should rename "quiet hours" and "finals week" "*party time*" Apparently, they didn't have as much material to study as we did. We all pretty much stayed out of eachother's way and helped eachother out/kicked eachother's butts when needed...but DAMN, it's freaking hard to study when you can't hear YOUR music (headphones turned up really loud) over the upstairs party people shrieking and moaning and carrying on....we'd get complaints from across campus. Seriously, they had the RA's study schedule down to the second-the RA couldn't ever catch them...and they claimed it was racial discrimination (odd, since there were Africans, African Americans, Indians, Arabs, Caucasian Americans, Asians, Russians, Canadians, and even American Indians on our floor, which race were we discriminating against?) and we'd made everything up.

Thank GOD I live off campus now.

 

[Mr. McDuck]

I was a dorm "resident" for about a month. I put "resident" in quotes, because I hardly stayed there. It sucked ass. My first roommate lied to me and told me he doesn't stay out real late or come home drunk. Well, the first night I stayed there, he came in at 3:30am yelling to his friend about flavored condoms. I have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to go to work, then go to class until 9pm.

So, I stopped staying there. I drove an hour to work, an hour to class, and then an hour back home for a couple weeks. Finally, I got switched into another dorm. That wasn't any better, however, since my roommate was a 300 pounder who snored so loud, I couldn't stay asleep. So, I stopped staying there.

FINALLY, I posted an ad looking for an apartment, and I found a place with my own room and older roommates that didn't party like animals. I love where I am now, and you couldn't pay me enough to live in a dorm again.

 

[powerful_squib]

dorm life for me was a horrible, good, and horrible experience. I lived in 3 different dorms on 2 different campuses... I go to school at Rutgers NB (5 different campuses). Freshamn year was good at the beginning when i slacked off and did nothing for the first three weeks and I failed all my exams except 1 (lol)... then after that I became really serious because I didn't want my GPA to be horrible for the first semester. My floor was the party floor... drinking took place every thursday-saturday night... it was obnoxiously loud. We had the police come on 2 seperate occasions... we got poker banned from our building over some choking incident... it was crazy and horrible. The only time I would be in my dorm was to sleep. Then sophomore year I got a single on a different campus which was wonderful bc after my original room flooded and housing moved me to the corner double down the hall which I had to myself for the whole year... it was awesome. There were only girls on my floor as well and it wasn't as crowded as freshman year dorms. Now I currently live back on the campus I lived on freshman year but I live in the upperclassmen apartments. I don't know what housing was thinking setting me up with 3 muslims ( i have nothing against muslims). Its like living in a nightmare... I have to follow certain rules and since I work and come home late they are all in the bed already... and im a night owl so i stay up to 3 oclock studying.... its ridiculous... but the only good thing abt it is that the apartment is beautiful... My roomates are all seniors so they will be out next year and hopefully I will be able to get better roommates...

So all in all I had good and bad experiences... it just depends... my school is a big party school so its kinda hard to study for pre med courses when some drunk girl comes knocking on your door... but yea I hated dorm life freshman year, it was the worse year of my whole college career (crosses fingers)... but it will get better with time...

I mean try applying for a single next year, it was awesome because I could do anything I wanted anytime I wanted...

 

[MossPoh]

seriously, dorm life is awesome nonetheless, unless you hate gettin some...

Or if you were stuck in an all male dorm like I was....The constant threat of slipping in vomit or urine, trashcans being lit on fire, and the light bulbs thrown at me by druken *****s wasn't too fun.

 

[Mr. McDuck]

Heh, applying for a single means nothing. I was 22, had a fulltime career involving direct patient care (read: assisting in surgery, etc), and did 16-18 hour days 5 days a week waking up at 4:30am. They still gave me a dorm room knowing all that.

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

Dorm life for me sucked. I got paired with a fat Japanese business major who did nothing but sleep and download porn. He was a senior and I was a freshman. It was the worst pairing ever.

Does anybody attend (or formerly attended) a school where they pair you with someone based on major/ home state / whether you're a morning person or not?

I understand that dorms are in high demand and people should take what they can get but the least Housing can do is match people up based on a couple of questions administered during the application process...

 

[Law2Doc]

If you really hate dorm life, avoid certain med schools where almost all M1's live in dorms (Harvard, WashU, Cornell come to mind).

I'm not sure you are right about Harvard -- the med school is nowhere near the main campus, so I would think many folks would live in Boston proper. However Cornell is spot on -- there is no way any student could afford an apartment in that ritzy a neighborhood without living in the dorms, so pretty much everyone I've met lives there.

 

[MEG@COOL]

There were some hot chicks on my floor freshman year. I should have ****ed them all.

 

[ebaydan777]

i have my own apartment in Orange County, California, i go to CSUF and i hear the dorms are like apartments. I was gonna move into the dorms mid-semester but changed my minds when 3-4 of my friends said they got written up MIP's when their roommates had a party, they werent even there but when they got back they got a nice little ticket after visiting home....so i say NAY...got my own apartment downtown and loving it, i study a lot better have more peace and quiet as well, i always hear my buddies complaining about dorm life...

 

[jonathon]

Dorm life has sucked and not been to bad for me. I started college out at a community school and transfered to a 4 year last year. I spent the first year in an apartment dorm. The person I got matched with was a drunk. One the first day together, he asked me how old I was and I told him. I thin asked him how old he was and he said 21. Well, I found 2 months later that he was only 18. What a lier. He said he was 21 becasue he had a fake id and just wanted me to buy beer for him so he could go to bars with me. Well, he found out really quick that I don't go to bars and I don't drink. Therefore he hated being roomed with me becasue I would not go out and party with him so he pulled every string possible so he could get moved to a new dorm room. The resident life person was able to get him a room on another floor with a person with a reputation of being a really hard party person. I then spent the rest of the year with my own place.

It turns out that my roomate from last year is dropped out of school, lol. Gee, I wonder why?

So this year I said ok to living in an apartment dorm with two people that I have talked to before on campus and I had an ok feeling with living with them as long as I was able to get my own room. I can't express it enough that I am SO GLAD to have my own room this year. The alcoholic roomy does not even come home until 2 to 4 in the morning EVERY Saturday and Sunday morning (even he even comes home). During the week he drinks wisky on Tuesday night and drinks cans of beer with his meals and he is only 19 years old.

So I don't even spend time at the apartment dorm unless I'm sleeping. I have a girlfreind who also lives on campus so I just go to her place to eat since she has a really nice roomate that is quite, calm and does not mind me being around. When I need to study, I just go the the library and spend hours there if I'm not in class or working.

If I am at home, I usally just play NCAA Football 2006.

 

[Mr. McDuck]

Does anybody attend (or formerly attended) a school where they pair you with someone based on major/ home state / whether you're a morning person or not?

I understand that dorms are in high demand and people should take what they can get but the least Housing can do is match people up based on a couple of questions administered during the application process...

They knew all of my info. I filled out a survey that asked when I went to bed, when I woke up, how much I worked, what my hours were like, etc. They STILL matched me up with someone that partied all the time, didn't have a job, and came in no earlier than 3am every morning.

I went to the person who manages the housing thing and she basically shooed me out of her office without listening. She told me she'd put me on the top of the list; meanwhile, a couple days later, someone in my dorm got switched into an apartment.

 

[Crazy4F1]

They knew all of my info. I filled out a survey that asked when I went to bed, when I woke up, how much I worked, what my hours were like, etc. They STILL matched me up with someone that partied all the time, didn't have a job, and came in no earlier than 3am every morning.

I went to the person who manages the housing thing and she basically shooed me out of her office without listening. She told me she'd put me on the top of the list; meanwhile, a couple days later, someone in my dorm got switched into an apartment.

i filled out the same survey and wound up with the bitchiest girl i've ever met (read = she kept the tv on until 3am every night, denying me any sleep whatsoever when i had 8am classes and mono, to boot). she was also a total *****. nothing like waking up to find your roommate asleep topless on top of her covers with hickeys on her nipples...and the random guy who gave her them sprawled on the floor. nice.

 

[somemaybedoc]

Dorm life has sucked and not been to bad for me. I started college out at a community school and transfered to a 4 year last year. I spent the first year in an apartment dorm. The person I got matched with was a drunk. One the first day together, he asked me how old I was and I told him. I thin asked him how old he was and he said 21. Well, I found 2 months later that he was only 18. What a lier. He said he was 21 becasue he had a fake id and just wanted me to buy beer for him so he could go to bars with me. Well, he found out really quick that I don't go to bars and I don't drink. Therefore he hated being roomed with me becasue I would not go out and party with him so he pulled every string possible so he could get moved to a new dorm room. The resident life person was able to get him a room on another floor with a person with a reputation of being a really hard party person. I then spent the rest of the year with my own place.

It turns out that my roomate from last year is dropped out of school, lol. Gee, I wonder why?

So this year I said ok to living in an apartment dorm with two people that I have talked to before on campus and I had an ok feeling with living with them as long as I was able to get my own room. I can't express it enough that I am SO GLAD to have my own room this year. The alcoholic roomy does not even come home until 2 to 4 in the morning EVERY Saturday and Sunday morning (even he even comes home). During the week he drinks wisky on Tuesday night and drinks cans of beer with his meals and he is only 19 years old.

So I don't even spend time at the apartment dorm unless I'm sleeping. I have a girlfreind who also lives on campus so I just go to her place to eat since she has a really nice roomate that is quite, calm and does not mind me being around. When I need to study, I just go the the library and spend hours there if I'm not in class or working.

If I am at home, I usally just play NCAA Football 2006.

You probably don't like dorm life because you are against drinking, especially underage drinking, not just for yourself, but for others. My roomate didn't drink, but he loved dorm life because he could always hang with the rest of the guys who did and didn't drink and have fun. Being judgemental just isn't worth the alienation from your peers. Comeon 2-4 in the morning on the two weekend nights isn't horrible at all.

On the other hand if he is the kind of roomate who gets wasted every night and vomits on the room, that's a different story and I sympathize.

 

[MossPoh]

i filled out the same survey and wound up with the bitchiest girl i've ever met (read = she kept the tv on until 3am every night, denying me any sleep whatsoever when i had 8am classes and mono, to boot). she was also a total *****. nothing like waking up to find your roommate asleep topless on top of her covers with hickeys on her nipples...and the random guy who gave her them sprawled on the floor. nice.

Hmmm. that may have been me. (The guy on the floor)

 

[MirrorTodd]

i filled out the same survey and wound up with the bitchiest girl i've ever met (read = she kept the tv on until 3am every night, denying me any sleep whatsoever when i had 8am classes and mono, to boot). she was also a total *****. nothing like waking up to find your roommate asleep topless on top of her covers with hickeys on her nipples...and the random guy who gave her them sprawled on the floor. nice.

That seems like the perfect time for some practical jokes. Shoulda put a dildo in the guys hand or something.

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

Hmmm. that may have been me. (The guy on the floor)

Yeah, really depends on the day.
Thursday, maybe you.
Saturday, maybe me.
Who knows.

 

[Orthonut]

Does anybody attend (or formerly attended) a school where they pair you with someone based on major/ home state / whether you're a morning person or not?

I understand that dorms are in high demand and people should take what they can get but the least Housing can do is match people up based on a couple of questions administered during the application process...

Yes, but that doesn't mean your next door or upstairs or down the hall neighbors won't be different...

Ahhh, the beauty of living in Lanse Aux Epines!

 

[Orthonut]

That seems like the perfect time for some practical jokes. Shoulda put a dildo in the guys hand or something.

No, hand in bowl of warm water AFTER taking his clothes, soaking them in the sink and sticking them in the freezer.


Muwahahaaahahahaaaaaaaa

 

[zxcv1234]

Would you like some cheese with your whine?