<p>I'm a current second semester freshman and I cannot decide where to live next year.</p>
<p>Part of me wants to move off campus because I really don't want to borrow any more student loans but I also kind of feel like I'm not ready too.</p>
<p>I definitively didn't choose the right type of community to live in freshman year.
I chose a dorm that was social because I wanted to meet lots of new people because I came in knowing 0 people at a state school where most people already know each other.
However, most of them were preps,jocks and just the typical college kids you read about or see in movies. Most of them came in knowing each other from high school,some even elementary school. By the second day when I moved in everyone already had cliques.
Basically no one (well a few people) introduced themselves to me. Most people I met were friends of my roommates who fit into the above stereotype.</p>
<p>I've made some friends but not close friends just those friends who I occasionally eat out with, do club activities with and friends who I socialize with in class. There's also the friends I have who I mainly just go out to party with if I need a buddy to look out for me.</p>
<p>I plan on rushing next year (maybe a sorority or service frat) so hopefully things will change, I also have a few friends from high school transferring in but I still feel the need to make my own connections if that makes sense</p>
<p>I was thinking of maybe dorming again in a different dorm to try to get a different experience and maybe close friends.</p>
<p>I've met some sophomores who are doing that now, I'm not sure how it's working out for them though</p>
<p>Any experiences dorming as a sophomore or trying to make close friends as a sophomore?</p>
<p>In all truthfulness, I made maybe two friends through the dorms. The rest were met how you’re meeting people now - class, parties, clubs, etc. Honestly, it’s kind of a weird friendship you form with the people on your floor if you do all become friends. Last year I was on a floor of all girls and we all said hi, talked in the bathroom, etc. but it was more like people to gossip with than actual friends. This year, I’m a sophomore living on a coed floor and to tell you the truth, I’m not even sure who lives here besides me and another girl down the hall. No one hangs out here, everyone has their things to do elsewhere. Keep pushing yourself to talk to the friends (acquaintances) you have now and invite them to do stuff with you like joining you for dinner after a class or something. I don’t think living off campus will have such a big impact on your social life after freshman year unless it’s more than like 5 minutes away.</p>
<p>Do they have any co-op or theme housing on your campus? I bounced between dorms a couple of times at my large university, and had the greatest time when I ended up in co-op housing. An interesting blend of people (including a large contingent of aerospace engineering students!). It was a lot of fun, co-ed, and where I made some of my closest friends in college. I had a sophomore as my roommate freshman year, so while I made friends, they all already had roommates that they were sticking with – then I lost out in the housing lottery the next year (that is how I ended up "bouncing dorms). I also think the co-op was cheaper than the dorms.</p>
<p>@Lily215 I feel really awkward asking those friends sometimes because I feel like I’m intruding in their social circle!</p>
<p>@intparent the only really co-op housing they have at my university is for sororities and fraternities </p>
<p>We have living learning communities which I’m in right now but most people just applied to get a better chance of getting into the party dorm </p>
<p>There’s also private housing but its apartment style so I’m not sure how social it would be</p>
<p>And lastly there’s other specially housing options but mainly or girls or super religious people!</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure where I fit in!</p>