My CC has dorms and I’m wondering if I should do it for the social aspect of it and it’ll probably the closest thing to a real college… or if I should just live at home. I’m not made out of money but I could get student loans I suppose. Should I do it?
I would suggest staying away from loans like the plague. Even though you are in CC, it can still take you years to pay off your loans when you can just stay at home and go to school for free/cheap.
This is a late response, but dorms at a community college = no. Just no. Mainly, the people that live in the dorms are recruited athletes. While I never lived in them, I knew several people who did. They were much much much nicer than box-dorms at your run-of-the-mill universities. But many of the recruited athletes were convicted criminals, and there definitely was lots of fights, drugs, violence, etc. in the dorms. On multiple occasions, one of my friends/coworkers claimed that one of the basketball players broke into her room while she was in the shower. She was okay, but she wasn’t too pleased to see some 7’ uninvited basketball player sitting on her bed watching her TV as soon as she came out of the shower.
Your experience may well be different, but I simply would recommend just staying at home.
Additionally, I wanted to note… There’s probably going to be less than 100 people staying in the dorms at a community college. Thus, cliques are going to run rampant and you may not make very many friends at all.
With or without dorms, your CC IS a “real college.” The experience you have there, just as at any other school, is as real as you make it.
Many of the kids at most CC’s are commuters. That’s OK. There are activities and sports-- it’s up to you to join them and become part of the school community.