<p>As a transfer to a new university, a am currently working on my housing request. Apparently my school has classified me as a *"Junior", **since I had spent two years at my prior college. However, due to the requirements (basic fluency in a foreign language, a mathematics course, science, basic CORE classes + my major courses, the time will be 3 years instead of 2. Basically, I consider myself a sophomore.
**Introduction complete - here's my question...What is normally the best housing option for a transfer like myself? **I can opt for the houses with juniors and sophomores with the main *pros being that the individuals will be more mature, closer to my age, academically motivated (more so than freshman), and will be in the class of 2013-2014. The cons? Perhaps everyone will have already become buddy-buddy with each other and less open to new relationships.</p>
<p>Now for the freshman housing - please note, I am not speaking of freshman exclusive housing, just areas where they reside in the greatest percentage. The pros are that everyone, including myself, will be new. The *cons *are obvious, but my greatest fear is that the only way to have a good social life will be to reside with all first years.</p>
<p>I certainly value all poisons on this matter. I am a calm, academically oriented 20 year old female who needs your advice.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I think the main thing you should consider is whether you can really handle being around a bunch of freshmen. If you live in a place where there are many freshmen, it stands to reason that you will make a lot of friends - technically no one would even know you weren’t a freshman unless you tell them. However if you think they would annoy the crap out of you, I would live elsewhere. They probably will be into partying, at least many of them will. </p>
<p>Think about the kinds of people you enjoy hanging out with. Do you like hanging out with people older or younger than yourself? Where do you generally gravitate? I had a close friend last year (my freshman year) who was 20 and a technical junior (she was from England, studying abroad), she lived in the dorms with us, and she got along quite well with all us freshman. However, she was very much into going out and partying with us. When she turned 21, we all had two weeks of perpetual drunkenness - and note that if you have freshman friends, when you turn 21 you will become very popular (unless you won’t buy alcohol, and then you will probably be pretty unpopular). I guess what I’m saying here is it’s up to you and the kind of company you generally like to keep. Freshmen could be a great source of friends if you can put up with them and like hanging out with younger people - some people really do. I wouldn’t assume they won’t be academically oriented, but some of them probably won’t…they will probably be more polarized between academically oriented and less so.</p>
<p>If you can handle it, then go for it :)</p>
<p>I couldn’t make friends with the freshmen when I lived with them as a junior transfer. They were cliquey, catty, *****y, and constantly sloppy puking drunk-- not just drunk, but disgusting passing out in puddles drunk right in the middle of the hallway. I was in the freshman section for football season tickets, too, and I had to stop going because there was always vomit everywhere and the paramedics had to come up for kids passing out in the stands. Freshman drinkers are in a whole other class from the rest. And as for maturity, it was like being in high school all over again. Two years removed from high school, I could never have gone back. It was miserable until I found older students to hang out with. the freshmen were just impossibly immature for me.</p>
<p>Not to mention the fact that, in terms of school, we had virtually nothing in common. Being new to the school makes little to no difference, that’s really not common ground when one is new to college altogether and the other is not. I had my major already, had to find internships, was already building connections for the job hunt, while my roommate was still blown away by the possibility of having to have an idea of what she wanted to do with her life. She had another epiphany every other week and went and changed her major-- and we were talking all completely different classes, which she and the other freshmen mostly had in common. Being surrounded my freshmen as a 20 year old was one of the loneliest experiences of my life. We were in /completely/ different stages of life, and even though I hadn’t had the dorm experience before transferring the constant high-off-freedom mentality that the freshmen get drove me completely insane. You don’t realize how much you’ve grown up since freshman year until you’re in that situation.</p>