<p>I'm in the honors dorm at Florida State, whenever I tell people what dorm I'm in they're always saying how all the people in there will be boring and not know how to have any fun. I'm a pretty social person, just wondering if anyone had any experience. Am I gonna be stuck with a ton of antisocial hermits?</p>
<p>you dont gotta stay in ur dorm all the time do ya?!</p>
<p>but i'm sure there will be some chill people, but prob a higher frequency of the study hard type</p>
<p>BlueDragon said he was a social person, not someone who is looking to party constantly. I thinsk, in general, his preferance IS to be with those who take academics seriously. But ozym is right, you can join clubs or teams, or take some totally off-beat elective that will let you find those who, while possibly not as committed academically, they'll be people you can click with socially.</p>
<p>I'll be in the honors dorm at Florida State as well. I'm looking forward to having a great time. There wil be plenty of social people in there.</p>
<p>lol i love how everyone thinks im a guy. MRC, whats your major, you in landis or gilchrist..etc</p>
<p>I live in an honors dorm. Yes, <em>most</em> people in the dorm do take academics a bit more seriously, but most also like to have a good time. Some party. Others' idea of a good time is to have a movie night with a bunch of people on the floor, play intramural sports, take the bus to the mall, go out bowling, or to the nearby city where there are lots of shops, and an area to walk along the water. Basically the honors dorm is where people live that take academics more seriously, but most are not antisocial hermits. Some of my best friends at school are the ones that lived in my dorm. We went to hockey games together, had movie nights, went to events on campus, etc. And while there were partiers in the dorm, there was a lot less pressure to get smashed every night than there was in the freshmen dorms (at least on my campus anyway)</p>
<p>Monarchsfan16 you just described High School. I haven't heard anything bad ab out the honors dorms, or good about them either. The honors kids aren't anti-social, but they aren't your average college kids and they don't look like your average college kids.</p>
<p>I mean arguing over who can recite the most digits of PI or just replacing college vernacular with more academic verbiage, isn't mainstream.</p>
<p>BlueDragon, my older daughter spent the last two years in Gilchrist as an honors student. I can assure you you'll meet all kinds there. Just because someone's talented enough to get into FSU and even the Honors community, this in no way guarantees they'll graduate. The chances are better, but there's no guarantee.</p>
<p>When I was a university student even the brightest kids can make some boneheaded choices. </p>
<p>The Honors dorm won't be too different from any other dorm. Some kids'll be very studious, many will be conventional and others will test whatever limits they can find.</p>
<p>It really becomes a test of focus and discipline - to get to class on time, to study and learn, to get enough sleep, to eat properly, to wash your clothes...really simple things that now require deliberate effort. Boys tend to have more difficulty than girls in general in this transition.</p>
<p>AlphaFlight, I never once heard people arguing over Pi or anything of that nature. I ran across a few nerds, but nothing to that extreme. This is the problem; everyone thinks to be in college you must party, but that is not the case. I simply described my dorm, which is an honors dorm. Like everywhere in life there were some partiers, and yup there were a few that were asked to not return second semester. But most wanted to balance school work and fun and didn't want to get drunk to have fun. And that's what we did. And there are plenty of other students on campus that don't live in the honors dorm that are very similar</p>
<p>well if you are outgoing and bright, then there should be other outgoing and bright people there</p>
<p>Honors dorms are way too homogenous. I would avoid them at all cost, unless they are brand new or are super deluxe for the same price as a normal dorm. I would keep your honors status, but ditch the honors living.</p>
<p>Like this 16yo honors freshman I knew once said, "If I were truly a genius, then I would be at another school."</p>
<p>Haha, I'm going to be at a honors dorm too. Luckily my roommate seems to be pretty cool, and I'm hoping for a similar response from the rest of my neighbors.</p>
<p>
[quote]
lol i love how everyone thinks im a guy.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>its probably b/c your screenname is capitalized and has dragon in it. seriously, one of my guy friends pointed out to me how guys have more capitalized screennames than girls. anyway, this has no relavancy to the topic so i'm gonna shut up now.</p>
<p>i'm living in an honors dorm...but nobody i've talked to (suite/floor/roommates) feels the need to stay in/not drink every night of the week (yayyyy!!)</p>