<p>Does anyone have any exprience with this? Is there any major differences in college life? Im planning on going to the university of British Colombia and only 20% of the students live on-campus. Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>It just means there will probably be less parties going on around campus or at night, you'll still haev a good time with the people you meet but chances are you'll be going to parties at a nearby university.</p>
<p>I think that I can give you a pretty good opinion. I go to the University of Alberta, which has a similar campus life to UBC. About 20% live on campus, like you said.</p>
<p>The only people that have the 'college life' are the people in dorms or frats/sororities. Everyone else just goes to bars, especially with legal drinking age at 18 (although 19 in BC). But the people that live on campus do have their own parties. They have things called 'floor crawls' where everyone in a floor in a dorm makes their own drink and goes around partying. I've been to them before and they're fun as hell.</p>
<p>I think that you should definitely live in dorms. Everyone that I know in dorms is much happier than those than commute here at the U of A. I commute and it sucks!</p>