when you went to college, did you live in the dorms?

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Yikes.... So you got to play out lots of "catholic school girl" fantasies?

better have!!

[M.D. Holloway]

Sidney, you would not believe all the stuff that happened there. Seriously...boy do I miss those days...

[porsche4life]

We can only not believe if you tell us.

[M.D. Holloway]

I would get banned...anything you can imagine happened and then it happened again...

[genrex]

And it was free!... well, other than the contraceptives and the melons.

[mjohnson]

College is supposed to change you, if you're doing it right.

Kids who miss out on the dorms miss out on much more. Like learning to get along with people you don't necessarily love. Kind of like the real adult world.

I went to a pretty aggressive, more or less engineering only, school. The networks we developed as freshmen were invaluable to make it through the first few years of weed-out courses. It was truely "cooperate to graduate".

Most of them I still keep up with today.

My nephew started years later at the same school, but his parents bought (!!) him a condo two months into his first year. The kid couldn't adjust to having roommates or to having things not exactly as he liked. He moved out and lived alone. Dropped out soon thereafter.

Even post-dorms, renting a single room and having many roommates provides lots of interesting experiences. Makes the first few years of security clearance paperwork interesting though. I don't even remember all of their last names...

[legion]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

My nephew started years later at the same school, but his parents bought (!!) him a condo two months into his first year. The kid couldn't adjust to having roommates or to having things not exactly as he liked. He moved out and lived alone. Dropped out soon thereafter.

We had one guy in our circle of friends like that. Thankfully his mother refused to let him live alone (the one good thing she did for him). He had a lot of trouble living with other people, and he simply didn't understand why people didn't stop arguing with him the second he spoke up. (At home, being the only boy with 6 sisters, he was used to simply declaring things and that made them so.) I honestly think that his college years are what have allowed him to be a semi-functional adult.

He lives in his dad's condo and tells people he owns it. He gets fired from a job every 2-3 years for consistently missing deadlines. He currently works for public television as an editor (makes no money) but tells people he is a producer. He can't understand why the producer won't wait for him to perfect an episode before airing it.

[p911dad]

The terms of my scholarship provided tuition and room, but not board or any fees. Once my parents understood that, I lived 3 years in the dorm, ate the meal plan but escaped to an apt sr. year. I agree with the writer above that dorm life puts you with a lot of folks you may detest, but you learn to adapt very quickly, like adult life. All our kids lived in dorms their whole 4 years. I approve!