<p>Just wanted if anyone here had to provide their own housing their first year of college. I plan on going to a community college in California during August. This is something I want to do but I'm kind of nervous of the transition. Excited, but nervous.</p>
<p>Did anyone here have to get an apartment/place of their own for the first year in college? How was it? Pros? Cons?</p>
<p>Also, whats the difference in the cost of getting your own place versus the cost of living in a dorm?</p>
<p>Well first, isn’t there any CC’s in your state.
Room and board at a normal college is already unreasonable, I go to a CC and they have apartments across the street, its anywhere from 800-1200 dollars per month, you almost HAVE to get roommates, which would suck. But yeah, its expensive.</p>
<p>Because if I go to a CC in California, there are programs which guarantee you to transfer into specific schools. If I stay here in Vegas (where I’ve been living for the past 10 years), I won’t have that guarantee.</p>
<p>Yes I’ll have a roommate for sure, if not I don’t think I’d be able to afford it.</p>
<p>But did anyone here live in an apartment for their first year or so? Or did anyone you know rent out an apartment?</p>
<p>If you get a roomate or two it will probably be affordable.</p>
<p>I hate living in a dorm. Sadly, I have to finish a couple of semesters before my university will even consider letting me move off campus. They’re big into residential communities. </p>
<p>Consider yourself lucky that you don’t have to live in a dorm. Being forced to live in the same building/set of buildings as everyone you know and socialize with is suffocating if you’re at all fond of your privacy.</p>