Go for it, by all means. You really connect with people when you live in the dorm. My best friend of 25 years is someone I met in the dorm laundry room. Second semester of freshman year (1983-84) I pretty much had the room to myself because my roommate was a sorority pledge, so she was with her sorority members during most of her free time. Then for the remaining 3 years (fall '84 through spring '87) I lived with the same roommate in Memorial Hall, a dorm that was built in 1946 and has great "bones". The room we had our senior year had a huge bay window. The nice thing for me was having a sink in the room and a kitchen on the corridor.
Here's Memorial Hall at Valparaiso University - it had a massive overhaul and the rooms are now air conditioned and wired for cable TV and Internet - must be nice! But a place where I had a LOT of fun, wrote a lot of papers and did some serious growing-up.
My oldest niece lived in a dorm room about the size of a Band-Aid box her first year at college. After that she lived in her sorority house for 2 years, where she shared a room with 2 other students. Her last year the three of them took an apartment off-campus.
My nephew lived in a dorm that was a converted factory, huge room, huge windows, great location. He lived in different apartments the remaining 3 years.
The school my youngest niece will be attending has a housing option where students in some academic areas can live on a dorm floor with people in their major. I can't decide if that would be great or stressful (basically being with the same people 24x7).
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Originally Posted by cassiesmom
I'm trying to decide if I want to do it or not. I think it might be helpful having someone to relate to the tests and classes you're going through, but I'm still thinking about it.
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