<p>Gonna go get a feel for the campus and look for a few studios I'm looking into renting if I decide to go to UF (which is highly likely right now).</p>
<p>Ahhhh I'm sooo excited :).</p>
<p>Will be hard to get a real feel for the student body Visirale since most of the students have already left for winter vacation. Only a handful of kids are left on campus now. The spring semester starts on January 8th...you should go back after that date.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I am one of the handful of students.</p>
<p>i agree with seiclan. you really cant see the admosphere without all the students there. i saw the campus in the summer and when classes are going on and its completely different</p>
<p>I've visited tons of campuses and I know what it's like when all the kids are out running around. I just wanted to get a feel for the physical campus. </p>
<p>It was great. Had lunch at tijuana flats. Then we went to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and walked around for a while. When we left we saw the team coming out. That was exciting. Then we wandered around aimlessly for a while. It was good just to do that. I needed to see if I could see myself living there for the next 4 years. </p>
<p>The honors dorms looked nice, but I still think that I'm going to get my own studio. I'm ready to live on my own and I've done the whole dorm thing before. I'll have plenty of friends (20-30 from my school alone) staying in dorms for me to visit and experience "dorm life" with.</p>
<p>But yeah, unless princeton or amherst come through with a full ride scholarship, I'll be at UF next year... I might even see about doing the summer semester so I can move up earlier.</p>
<p>You sound like you've already put a lot of thought into it, but make SURE you know what you're doing before you get a studio your first year. Not only is a lease a lot to worry about on top of the normal freshman activities, but you 100% are going to miss out on dorm life if you don't stay in a dorm. Don't think that visiting your friends is going to make it better - you'll get the crappy parts of the dorm experience and not the great parts.</p>
<p>If you're very, very, very outgoing or you are cool with keeping just your friends from high school for the next four years, then it's fine. But think carefully about that.</p>
<p>Tijuana flats is good. :)</p>
<p>I love Tijuana Flats</p>
<p>In response to kirst, I dont think that by visiting you'll only get the crappy parts. I'm torn in if I would reccommend the dorm or living off campus your first year. Since you have the possibility of living in Hume then I say use the dorm if you really need the convience. I lived in Hume during the summer and I didnt get the dorm experience since everyone was quite seperate since there wasnt a real need to share anything, except a kitchen, which was hardly ever used. Yes there is residence area activities but simply anyone can go with a purchase of an activity card...you dont necessarily need to live in that dorm, since some of my friends did that. </p>
<p>I live in Trusler now, and I must say I'm ready to leave. Some of the residents are cool and I'm actually getting an apartment next year with a 3 of them. However, living with some others is just awful. They are highly disgusting often cooking and leaving the kitchen a mess and dirty dishes everywhere...bathroom, I'll just leave that to the imagination on what can possible go wrong. A floormate sibling lives in another resident hall and says that it's preety much dead there.</p>
<p>I know it sounds like I'm trying to turn everyone away from residence halls but I just wanted to list some of the cons, since everyone says its a great freshman experience. Which it is since you can meet more people then an apartment/studio.</p>
<p>So preety much what I'm trying to say, Visirale, is lay out what you want more and what you're willing to sacrifice a little. The decision is up to you.</p>
<p>...are you trustler 1</p>
<p>no ten characters</p>