I’m currently at Ucsd, and I applied to dorm. However, I just havent been feeling it! I don’t like the dorm life and I just don’t feel comfortable living here. I’m fine going to school here but living here just hasn’t been a good experience for me. I trying to stick to stick with it but I just don’t like having to live here. I’m close to home, but commuting would just make things harder. Can anyone one offer advice or is anyone in my situation? Thanks. I know it hasn’t been a long time, I just am worried that it’ll be like this the whole year.
Sorry it’s been difficult. A lot of freshmen have a hard time adjusting to dorm life. I recommend talking to your RA first and come up with some strategies. Take advantage of counseling as well. Perhaps you could move to an off campus apartment or to a single next semester. Talk to your family so they understand what you are going through.
I personally commute from home. I also lived on campus for about 5 weeks before my 1st year (I am a 2nd year now) for a summer program I did. I can say commuting is much harder than living on campus. You have to plan your life around traffic, school, and getting enough sleep so you can actually drive to school. There is no staying up till 2 AM with friends, and having an 8 AM class (I did this once, and would not recommend).
If the reason you don’t like living on campus is due to missing family/home in general, then commuting may be good for you. Many people do commute for this reason. However, if you don’t like living on campus because it’s hard to make friends with your suitemates, then it’s just going to get harder as a commuter. None of the friends I talk to on a regular basis are from UCSD, they are all people I know from middle school and high school.
I would recommend trying to figure out why you don’t like living on campus, and if living at home would fix that. Commuting isn’t that bad, it just isn’t the typical college experience, but that is not always a bad thing 
I would recommend that you live near campus because most of the students live in UTC.
My dd’s two friends from HS and our son’s friends (also from HS) attended UCSD and didn’t like it because the social aspect just wasn’t there. They were at a very active HS campus so they were extremely disappointed. They developed a carpool list and all carpooled depending on who was going where and when. The pick ups were at a central Starbucks with lots of parking. The commute was bearable. Then, a couple of them they moved over by the Von’s in UTC.
What are you not liking about dorm life? What are you doing to get involved, make friends, and connect with other students? If you aren’t making an effort to find your people, make friends, etc, I’d suggest reaching out to others, and making some changes to help yourself be more connected on campus over the rest of the semester and maybe the rest of the year. Both my kids went away to school and it took into second semester for them to begin to feel at home on campus.
If it really doesn’t get better you can always commute. I commuted to UCSD all four years. You’ll get a good education that way too, but if I had it to do over, I would live on campus at least the first year and work hard at meeting people, joining clubs, intermural sports, and otherwise getting involved in campus life. Living on campus is just easier for office hours, study groups, group projects, etc.