<p>What is wrong with this college? We are from the northeast and knew the south is an entirely different and completely weird (from our perspective) place. But S ( a grad student in Atlanta) is in a dorm where you can't sign in a visitor of the opposite sex,the dorm is dry,they randomly search rooms for alcohol...Really? Is this school actually part of some secret Christian backwater cult? In a normal college in civilized America, college freshmen aren't treated this way. By the way, the academics are excellent of you can adapt to living in kiddie land...</p>
<p>Leave the dorms.
Problem solved.</p>
<p>My son only lived in the dorm (Savannah) freshman year and while it was dry, he never experienced any random searches. The vast majority of his friends moved off campus after freshman year. Less expensive too. I would imagine a grad student feeling like he was in kindergarten living in ANY dorm situation.</p>