<p>What is dating like at a mostly residential college for commuters? How could I have the best chance at finding a girlfriend if I commute to a college where most people are residents? I could live in the dorms, but don't think I could tolerate all the drinking and crazy behavior for long as I am not a wild party type guy. I am very socialable and don't have too hard of a time making friends, but I'd rather be able to sleep away from the dorms.</p>
<p>I don’t see why it would be any different from regular socializing as a commuter. You won’t accidentally get to know people as well as you would if you were living with everyone on campus so you have to make more of an effort to get to know someone, and depending a girl may consider it inconvenient to date someone who doesn’t live on campus given that you’re not quite as available as an on campus guy, but I don’t think that would make much of a difference for a girl that doesn’t have attachment problems. When I was commuting it was more convenient for us because that meant I had a car for us to use.</p>
<p>Hah I wish commuting meant having a car for me. I get to use public transportation… “hey sweetie, let’s cuddle… right next to the homeless guy and the person who’s probably got a case of pneumonia judging from that cough”</p>
<p>Well, my car was a car my parents let me borrow that had to be back in the driveway by midnight and I needed to ask permission to use it at all, and the only reason I had that was because we have no public transportation! 
Not that I wasn’t lucky to have that, but I might have traded it for a bus so I didn’t have to leave wherever I was by 11:30. Now I live on campus but we still go to different schools and in terms of maintaining our relationship it is not very different from when I was commuting at all. And, as I have posted here numerous times, I think that having a reasonable commute to your SO at this stage of life can really be an ideal situation. It forces you to maintain your own lives and not get too dependent. I can see him pretty much whenever I want but some amount of effort does go into it and I am no under obligation to see him more than I have time for/want to. I’m not sure if I’d find it as easy to find time to be in three different clubs and have all the friends that I do if he were around all the time wanting my attention.</p>
<p>Honestly, knowing how UMD DOTS (Department of Transportation Services) ****ed up the parking situation this semester by essentially overbooking the main parking lot I don’t really think I would save much time driving vs. taking the bus and Metro and I kinda enjoy the ride, especially going home. Gives me time to unwind.</p>