<p>I got my housing for fall the other day(like everyone else I assume), and got Kellum. Yeah....not to excited. Am I able to cancel housing and not pay(I assume I won't get my down payment back) so I can live off campus?</p>
<p>If you’re a new resident, I think you have until July 1st to accept or decline. They should mail you your housing info in a few days, and it’ll include a form about how to pay, with an option at the bottom to cancel housing.</p>
<p>I think. I suggest calling housing first thing Monday though just in case.</p>
<p>NO, you signed a contract that says you are committed to paying whether you accept or not. And if you are not 18, your parents signed for that very reason. THEY WILL HOLD YOU TO IT. Except, in years where there are more students wanting housing than beds, you MIGHT be able to get out. CALL THEM ASAP on Monday. Ask if you can get out. SOMETIMES you have to have someone ready to accept a contract in your place. Other times, they may have a waitlist they can go do. But if you want to get out, CALL ASAP. </p>
<p>This could be different this year, but in years past, THERE WAS NOT a JULY deadline. Once you committed to housing, the only way out was if you accepted admission somewhere else and did not attend FSU.</p>
<p>yeah i looked at the housing mail that came in and on the bottom on the paper it says u can cancel housing ONLY if you are not attending Florida State University.</p>
<p>Getting assigned to Kellum isn’t like being sent to prison; it’s not that bad. Kellum is across the street from President Barron’s house, you could wave to him when you first go out in the morning. I think freshmen are better off on campus first year regardless of which dorm. Freshman year goes real fast, you’ll be out of Kellum before you know it and you’ll probably have lots of good stories to tell later years about your Kellum “one year sentence”.</p>
<p>in retrospect, I think if my son had it to do over, he’d rather have had Kellum instead of a renovated suite style. There’s a lot more social interaction and you actually meet other students living there.</p>
<p>The big thing that people don’t realize is that the dorms really are just as social as they make them. If your son didn’t find many friends or social interactions, likely he really wasn’t looking for them- no matter what he might tell you.</p>
<p>^, what Pasbal said.</p>
<p>I lived in Smith this past year, and it has the reputation of being the most social out of all the dorms on campus. It had social events every month. How many friends did I make there? Two. One was my roommate, the other was a resident down my hall who I saw everyday. Why? Because I pretty much stayed in my room all day or hanged out with my other friends. Regardless of whether a dorm highly recognize as a social dorm or not, it’s ultimately up to how they make them, as Pasbal said.</p>
<p>I admit my son tends to be shy. That’s why I had hoped his RA would have done more to get the floor together. Also, there were a fair amount of upperclassmen on his floor (his roommate being one) and so they had already established themselves at FSU so didn’t need to reach out. As I said, I was at Broward and found it spooky how people would pass in the halls and not even acknowledge each other.</p>