<p>I am having sort of a dilemma about the living situation for college here in a couple months. My options are to stay at the dorms at the college. These dorms house only about eight hundred kids for the whole school. The dorms are apartment style with four rooms and two in each room. They have a balcony, so they are pretty nice, not too beat up. My other option is one of my friends (I am a guy and shes a girl) is transfering to the same school while I am starting as a freshman. Two of her friends, I know them both ok (both girls), are also transfering in and all three of them want me to go in on getting an apartment somewhere of our choice, probably nicer. Both sound good because at the dorms there is new people, but the rules I hear are strict. Living with the girls in the apartment is good because i know that i can trust them and it may be easier to live there. What should i do?</p>
<p>just realize living on and off campus your first year of college may impact the amount of people you get to meet depending on how active you are. i mean if you feel you're going to be pro-active and make friends at your school regardless of where you live, then go for the one that offers better living conditions I suppose.</p>
<p>I'd live in the dorms your first year and see how it goes... if you don't like it you can always move out in subsequent years. But as mentioned above, there's a lot to be gained by living on campus the first year.</p>
<p>It's also worth taking into consideration that a lot of universities have a housing system where students who live off campus have the lowest priority for being able to secure on-campus housing for the next year if they decide that they want to move back on campus. So there's a chance that if you live in an apartment that you'll never be able to live in the dorms. That might be what you want, and it might be better for you to always live off campus, but it's worth thinking about.</p>
<p>I would live in the dorms for your first year, especially if they're as nice as they seem through your description. Being a first year in the dorms will probably be the best opportunity to get to know people you have all four years.</p>
<p>live in the dorms first year.</p>