<p>I'm 24 years old and plan on attending college very soon. I never got a chance to go to a real big university and live on campus and have the "college experience" of living on campus and partying and meeting people, I hear it's a lot of fun. I do look pretty young by the way, most people think I'm 20 years old. And NO... I'm not just going there to party, I'm there for an education.</p>
<p>I'm going to go to college regardless, I'm just not sure if I should live in the dorms.</p>
<p>Depending on the university, you may or may not get to live on campus. For example, at my university, anyone who is 24 or older pretty much have to either live in a student housing apartment or in an off-campus apartment–the dorms is not an option for them (even in the transfer dorms for transfer students, all the students range from 19-22 years of age).</p>
<p>No, you shouldn’t live in the dorms, even if you can.</p>
<p>No, my oldest sibling is around your age and has an off campus apartment. You’re too old to party. And you shouldn’t go there with that even clouding your mind, even if you are going there for an education. No partying.</p>
<p>Can someone explain why he is too old to live in a dorm?</p>
<p>Most people move out of the dorms by the age of 20, anything beyond that you will be seen as an outsider in most cases. On Campus apartments might end up being the better idea here.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think if you moved into the dorms at that age you’d be pretty popular, even if only because people under 21 would be constantly hitting you up for alcohol. Still, most people living in dorms are 18-20 year olds and I think it would get tiring constantly being around people that much younger than you. And besides, the college experience full of fun and new friends and nonstop partying largely does not exist in the first place. College isn’t really all like “American Pie 2.” So don’t let that “big lie” make you feel like you just have to live in the dorms.</p>
<p>I’m in the same situation and I plan on living in a dorm once I transfer. I’ve explained my age to the housing departments at the colleges I’ve visited and none of them have had an issue with it. One thing I would suggest is trying to get into an apartment style dorm instead of a traditional dorm and get one with a private room if you can. It will cost a bit more but you’ll be grateful for your own space when you need to get away from your younger roommates for a few hours.</p>
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<p>A 24 yr old don’t look much older than a 20 yr old.</p>
<p>Try it and see! I think it could go well if you play it cool and don’t get self-conscious about your age. You might think college kids are immature though.</p>
<p>If it doesn’t work out you can always move off campus later.</p>
<p>I lived on a transfer floor my first year here and there was a 25 year old in the dorms. He got along fine with everyone. People would tease him and call him Grandpa but it was all in good fun.</p>
<p>If you go this route, I would avoid freshmen dorms. The maturity level between a 24 year old and an eighteen year old is vast. </p>
<p>As an grad student, I had the pleasure (not by choice) of living with two freshman and one sophomore. Never again.</p>
<p>There was a 23 year old living in my freshman dorm last year. There was also a 21-year-old foreign exchange student. They became pretty good friends and both ended moving out to apartment-style dorms.</p>
<p>You’d probably be much happier living off-campus. It was a real pill for the two of them, because A) they were both legal to drink but their roommates weren’t (so no alcohol allowed in their rooms), B) they had to sign in any visitors (so girls or guys-didn’t matter), and C) visitors of the opposite sex couldn’t be over past 2 AM all of first semester. Everyone else on the hall was pretty much 18 or maybe 19 years old and in a very different state in their life.</p>
<p>On top of that, it was kind of weird for me and a few of my friends. I had just turned 18 in June. August was when we moved in and I went from having a very strict curfew where my parents knew everything about me and where I was to living on my own where I didn’t have a curfew. I had also never been around alcohol (my parents don’t drink) and my mother flipped out on me the day before I moved into my dorm because she found out what co-ed dorms really meant. Needless to say, it was really <em>strange</em> to realize that the neighbors across the hall were not only guys, but one of them was 23(!). That seemed old then. It doesn’t now. But it wasn’t the most comfortable feeling in the world.</p>