<p>I'm a transfer student that is a junior and has been accepted for the fall. I live in Georgia and was wonder whether it would be better for me to look into housing on campus or off campus. Price really doesn't matter, but I was just wondering names of nice dorms or off campus housing that I should be looking into as I begin planning my move to Tallahassee.</p>
<p>Well, on campus you’re going to be severely limited. I believe the only real options you have on campus (that isn’t a freshman dorm, anyway) would be Rogers Hall or Ragans Hall. They’re pretty much on opposite ends of the spectrum, in that Rogers is quite possibly the cheapest dorm on campus ($485/month), and only requires month-by-month payments, while Ragans is one of the most expensive ($3280/semester, so $820/month), and requires you to live there at least the entire semester and possibly the entire year.
Both are full apartments and not just dorm rooms, like the freshman dorms. So you would have the ability to cook in your apartment, and you’d have a full-size fridge and stuff.
On campus includes all utilities, only exceptions to this are money to do laundry in the buildings, and a per semester charge for a U-Box at UPS (for Rogers only), that is I think $23.
Of course, you could apply for a freshman dorm, but the application for those has been open for over 4 months now, and you’d get a priority number for housing that was downright awful. </p>
<p>Off campus there’s lots of housing, ranging in price just as much, if not more. You can get anything from a glorified dorm room to a full apartment, you can live by yourself or with up to 4 roommates, it just all varies. </p>
<p>Honestly though, at this point I’d probably start looking off campus, especially if you have a car, because most on-campus stuff is full. There’s probably some room in Rogers left, but it only has space for 188 people I believe and is probably close to capacity.</p>
<p>You don’t want to live on campus if you can avoid it. I would not even consider it an option. You would probably get put in Rogers which is by far the worst dorm there is. They call it apartment but I have seen them. They are horrible. Small and you share a bed room so its like a dorm. Plus everything is very old especially the bathroom which is disgusting. The appliances are so outdated also. I would look off campus for you best bet. You won’t miss anything by living off campus probably have a way better time anyway</p>
<p>Is Rogers Hall really that bad? I opted for that hall bc it’s the cheapest and I just don’t have the time to look around for a nearby apartment. Hmm I’ll see how it goes fall semester and if it’s that bad I’ll look around nearby places for Spring term. </p>
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<p>There’s NOTHING wrong with living on campus. I for one will have lived on campus all 4 years and I think it’s great. No having to deal with leases that cover times I won’t be in Tallahassee, no worrying about having roommates come up with their portion of the utilities, and everything on campus is a short walk away. I know a lot of people that have lived on campus not just one year, but multiple years. I even know people who moved off campus only to move back on campus.</p>
<p>Rogers isn’t that bad. It’s because mike had a bad experience last semester in Rogers, that he thinks it’s basically a hellhole. I know people currently living in Rogers that think it’s great.
It’s just an older building. It’s going to have some issues. Heck, we have had near constant issues in McCollum this year and I still love the building.</p>
<p>Just a heads up that, according to Housing, there is a wait list as it is for Rogers at this point. My roommate is going to be a grad student next year and that’s pretty much what he was told, and that’s WITH priority for housing to Rogers going to grad students.</p>
<p>Well based how that sounds I think I’ll just look for a place off campus then. I would rather live in a nicer place and it seems like for the dorms I’m a little too late.</p>
<p>Yeah, honestly that’s probably the best idea, after hearing that Rogers has a wait list.</p>
<p>I didn’t have a rough semester there! Lol. It is very outdated an has a weird vibe. Also the bathrooms have rust everywhere. It was fun at times. But I usually stayed 3 or 4 nights at a friends house. When I moved away from there it was probably my best decision. Also Rogers is not like a regular dorm. It is harder to meet people in this hall. But I think my decision to move off campus was a very very good one and I would recommend it if your not a freshman.</p>
<p>A lot of it probably had to do with Rogers being mostly graduate students. I think if they essentially combined Rogers and McCollum (and into more than "Rogers McCollum United), and allowed Grad students to also live in the McCollum apartments (although I am sure that not many Grad students would want to live there), it would likely open Rogers up to more undergrads, making it easier to meet people. </p>
<p>As it is, most of the people in Rogers probably aren’t the party, meet new people type; they’re most likely the people that have already been undergrads and got all that out of their system. </p>
<p>It’s certainly not for everyone, of course.</p>