<p>I need opinions on where to live at college, especially from people who are already there. I have to decide whether I would like to live in an all-frosh dorm. It seems like all-frosh would be the best for making friends that I would have the whole time I'd at school. On the other hand maybe the freshman dorm would be constantly crazy with parties, where more experienced students would be quieter and calmer so I could study and get more sleep. What do you think?</p>
<p>Be prepared for no personal time, being sexiled, and various bodily fluids on your bed. Your standard of living will plummet.</p>
<p>you cant guarantee that. Depends where you go and what type of people you end up with.</p>
<p>Go with an all-freshman dorm. It is not as wild considering that most kids won’t be able to have alcohol legally. Of course, one or two might be able to sneak it in, but if you are in an upperclassman dorm, you are more likely to come across more parties.</p>
<p>Like Pinky7129 stated, your dorm life depends on where you go and you live with. I’d like to add that it also depends on your RA as well. If you get a lenient RA who is too laid back, you might have to resort to hearing a lot of noises. </p>
<p>That’s the thing with upperclassmen dorm. There is a chance that a couple of kids in your dorm might be friends with the RA (this was the case for me and I was so ticked off -_-). For a freshman, you are less likely to find kids who are friends with the RA, unless they grew up together in the same town.</p>
<p>bahaha this year the RAs on my floor were awesome!!! One even gave my friends/I shots (discreetly). Yeah we were sneaky though, we would let them know whenever we were having a dorm party (to let us know if we were being too loud), and always made sure to know who was on duty/rounds for the night so we’d know who to be wary of (if we had to be wary at all!) (I was in a mixed - upperclassmen/freshmen dorm)</p>
<p>The all-freshman dorms are typically not that bad at all. The large majority of people who are in it love it (although there are a select few that despise it) but once they become sophomores, are happily willing to move onto another place. I’d go for the freshman dorm - it makes it easier to make friends (you can complain about the loud noises/occasional vomiting together).</p>
<p>I enjoyed the dorm life for approximately the entire first semester, but after that…about when focusing on studies became a necessity, I hated it. I guess having no alone time really got to me eventually!</p>
<p>Also, most of the friends I made were from clubs I joined the first semester or second semester, not from living in my dorm.</p>
<p>In fact, about the best thing about living in dorms is being ridiculously close to the campus. Everything else generally sucks…but if you think you need the experience of dealing with living with another person, go ahead and consider it.</p>
<p>i think if you are going to be choosing only between all freshman housing and non (ie. not debating about dorming or not dorming) then I would definitely suggest all-freshman housing. generally there may be more parties but RAs should keep the noise under control (it’s their job) and if there is a noise problem you should be able to anonymously report it to an RA that can do something. i made my two best friends because we lived across the hall from each other out freshman year. i think it’s much harder to reach out to others (in the case that you want to make more friends or be more social but are stuck in a mixed year dorm where people already have friends and may keep more to themselves) than to take time for yourself (ie. reject offers or activities that may be available as friend-making opportunities in freshman dorms).</p>
<p>I’ve heard about the general craziness and non-privacy of dorm life as described here, and I actually considered a ‘slack’ major so I won’t have to study too hard. But it’s not worth blowing off college for something trivial like this, many other study places abound, maybe even with a little privacy.</p>
<p>I think an all-freshman “traditional”-style dorm is optimal for freshman students, where “traditional” refers to a building plan such that an entire floor shares a community bathroom with showers. Based on my experience, “traditional”-style dorms make it easier for you to know who you are living with. Unless you’re a loner who stays in your room all the time, you’re basically forced to interact with your hallmates.</p>
<p>I knew everyone on my hall my freshman year, but when I switched to “suite” and “apartment”-style housing, I was lucky if I knew my neighbors, much less the people on the other side of the floor.</p>
<p>i spent my freshman year in an all freshman dorm and it was a good experience. yes, there was drinking and partying sometimes. we did have a few guys who got crazy every so often (including one guy who ended up walking around naked on st. patrick’s day)…but it was the exception, not the rule.</p>
<p>either way, it made for a very good experience (i made most of my friends there) and i would highly recommend every freshman live in a freshman dorm.</p>