<p>Do you guys think it's important for a student to move out/live in res during college as opposed to living at home? Do students living with their parents miss out on a lot of the college life or is there not a huge difference? Let me know what you think.</p>
<p>Thanks.......</p>
<p>I think some kids can do just fine at home....it depends on the relationship btwn student and parents. Otherwise I think a lot is learned by group living.</p>
<p>This is a huge problem for me, because my parents won't allow me to dorm. I have a good relationship with them, the only problem is that they are extremely overprotective and I'm too stubborn and strong-willed. I don't want to be sheltered, I want to try living my own life. I think it's important to move out. My sister lives at home and commutes and she is doing just fine, she doesn't even care...I think it depends on your personality. To me, having to commute would feel too much like I'm being restrained to my usual boring, monotonous life. You only go to college once in your life. You've lived at home forever, it's important that you try something else, go somewhere else, grow up, mature, see new things and new people. That's the way I see it, anyway.</p>
<p>This is in fact one reason why I'm not allowed to apply to Ohio State; I live in the same city and I would have to live at home. My dad says going to college should be the whole experience, living in the dorms, as a residential student, and I tend to agree. :p</p>
<p>it's extremely important.</p>
<p>everyone i know who lived at home regrets it now and wishes they'd lived in dorms their first years at college.</p>
<p>IMHO, it makes no difference whether you live on campus or at home. What matters is what you want and what you can afford. If you are happy and comfortable at home, fine. If not, that's fine too.</p>
<p>Living at home will give you more quiet support and a sense of familiarity that will help you cope with the changes that come with college. Your parents are right there and available if you need them. Your surroundings are your own. You have your own little oasis. If you have friends close-by or activities that you've been involved with for years or a job, it's easier to maintain them. However, you will also probably have less independence and miss out on the spontaneous opportunities that make the on-campus college experience so exciting.</p>
<p>Living on campus offers the chance at learning to live independently...to launch into adulthood. You enjoy that wonderful bonding that occurs when strangers come together and share a new experience. You enjoy the spontaneous happenings on campus. However, you will need to cope with standing on your own two feet without benefit of mom and dad being there as sounding board or shoulder to cry on.</p>
<p>Both ways work. You just need to be really honest with yourself, and know which way is best for you. Also, you could start out at home, say at a community college and transfer for jr and sr years. This gives you a shot at both lifestyles...however, it is not the same as 4 years on campus, because it will be somewhat more difficult to make friends in your last 2 years because a lot of bonding will have already occurred.</p>
<p>Do what feels best for you. Even your friends who may have regreted living at home at first, aren't really in a position to say. It's easy to look back on what happened and say it would have been better another way...but since they didn't live the experience beginning in freshman year, they do not know and will never know if they would have been happy those first years living away from home...they can only guess. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I think it is important to move out. You need new experiences, and I think freshman year of college is a good time to start!</p>
<p>Move out! Alright, if you have to stay at home due to financial issues, whatever. But trust me, dorm experience is great (of course, depending on your roommates it can range from terrible to great, but college students are mostly good people). That is one of the reasons I enjoyed my first year so much, and why I'm going to enjoy my second year (got an apartment with three of my old dormmates).</p>
<p>it's a tough one. the obvious answer is to move out, but really, college, lets look at that, how is life LIKE college at all? in life, you get an apartment/house and maybe have a roommate or spouse. but you dont have noisy suitemates or roommates that are assigned to you who bug the hell outta ya.</p>
<p>Unless money is a major concern, I strongly advise living on campus for at least the first year. That's the time when you make the bonds with your peers and a milestone for becoming independent.</p>
<p>it's very important</p>
<p>If i lived at home and drove to school every day, i'd feel like i was still in high school</p>
<p>namaste, that is a good point that dorm living is nothing like the real world. however, in the "real world" after college, i want to have the memories of a freshman dorm. i want to have the clich</p>
<p>well if you want to have dirt, up till 5 AM with a final at 8 AM, lots of painfully hungover nights blah blah blah, so be it.</p>