<p>What do you think to live on campus? It seems like some people take it as a torture and some takes it as pleasure. Is it true that nobody will helping you when you need to? Share your experiences please.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’ve never found it all that exciting or rewarding, but it is very convenient. I think as long as you have reasonable expectations and you and your roommate(s) are generally reasonable people, it’s not that big of a deal. Depending on the setup, it can be annoying at times not to have a kitchen and to have to have an overpriced meal plan. Overall I’d say it’s pretty whatever.</p>
<p>I liked it. I think it helped me become a lot more independent and it was a good transition from living with my parents to living on my own. There were lots of annoyances, and I much prefer living off-campus, but overall I thought it was a really good experience. There were lots of support systems available at my school, though I didn’t use many of them, I preferred to solve my problems on my own. It can be really hard to adjust to sharing a room though.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies!
Well, my other question is that do you leave the campus and explore the city (assume you getting out of state)?</p>
<p>I try to get off campus as much as possible, but even going to school in a major city like I do, I have found it somewhat difficult. I think that most colleges have that “bubble” atmosphere to an extent. I think that is going to depend a lot on the student body and where social life tends to be focused. On my campus, yes, people do leave to do things in the city, but social life is primarily focused in areas (parties, bars, etc) near campus.</p>
<p>My school is very well integrated with at least the downtown portion of the city, so it does feel like a somewhat urban environment and it mixes well - you feel like you’re both on a college campus but also in a really cool city. It does feel like a bubble though on the rare occasions that I leave. There’s not much in the way of entertainment that can’t be found close to campus, and everyone lives near campus. I really haven’t looked around the rest of Madison, though. No need, really.</p>
<p>Without a car, living on campus is very very nice. Well, because I attend school on the Northeast, I don’t have to bother with long/far walks or even cold car drives in the snow. Living on campus means convenience between classes! </p>
<p>On the other hand, you have to deal with screaming college hallmates, loud music blasting, and sometimes when my window is opened I’ll hear screaming. Because my college campus is also very boring, it gets boring when you don’t have a car or none of your friends do.</p>
<p>Yes, I do try to travel off-campus as much as I can but the train station is a 20 min walk and the bus is about 10 - so on old days nobody really ever feels like walking.</p>
<p>I think the thing I hate most about dorming is just the fact that I have a roommate and no kitchen. I’d prefer to cook for myself.</p>
<p>Ok, thank you for you all’s comment!
Well, so you do ride bus? Is it slow and ghetto(I know I should not use this word, but this is the best word.)?</p>
<p>PowerY, that really depends on where you live.</p>
<p>Some cities have their public transportation funded better than others simply because many people rely on it. In other cities, cars are preferred so perhaps their public transportation isn’t as fancy as others. I’ll have to say that London and NYC were two places I found buses easy to navigate whereas LA was more car-orientated.</p>
<p>In Davis, the buses are maintained by the university, so it’s mostly just students who ride the buses, though since a few of the buses also service the entire city of Davis, you sometimes see Davis residents that aren’t from UCD. Buses around here are always on time in my experience (or sometimes even 5 minutes earlier than scheduled). But generally, a lot of people here prefer to ride their bicycles.</p>
<p>These are my choices outside Louisiana (I am from Louisiana):</p>
<p>Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Dallas
Georgia Tech - Atlanta, and
Fordham University - NYC</p>
<p>are these good cities to have fun with? or they are just OMG boring?
Do they have safe public transportation?</p>
<p>I mean, NYC is okay…they have stuff going on sometimes.</p>