Dorm Life

No college experience is complete without a healthy dose of dorm life. Try it, enjoy it, and take all there is from it.

I’m sure you have already heard the horror stories about dorm life. The horrible roommate who you have nothing in common with, the tiny box you are supposed to live in for an entire year, and the fact that you won’t have a decent meal until you go back home for Thanksgiving. I can PROMISE you that while some of what they say my have a small kernel of truth somewhere it really isn’t as bad as all that.

Sure you are most certainly going to have to adjust to living in very close quarters with other people who may or not be very different from you. This experience is one of the most important of the college experience. When you open the door on move in day you may meet the best friend you have or will ever have or you could meet someone who will test your limits but teach you valuable lessons about how to co-exist with all different kinds of people. Either way you will grow from this and be a better person because of it.

There is no way around it; your dorm room will be small. No other way to put it. Your bedroom, kitchen and living room is all the same room now and you now have to share that with another person. Not always and easy feat. But it can be done, and you may find that you actually like it. Slowly but surely you make this little space feel like a home. You decorate it, clean it (or not), you make it your own. And even though the rooms are designed by the architects to be the same, the people living in the rooms put their own spin on it show their individual personalities. No two rooms are ever alike that is what makes it fun.

You will eat GOOD food again before your next visit. The cafeteria is pretty good and there is always takeout (what college student doesn’t love pizza). Good friends and good conversations at dinner always make it better anyway. The microwave was developed with the college student in mine. You would be surprised at what all can and will be cooked in the microwave and taste great. There is always the chance you might be one of the lucky people who end up with a roommate that loves to cook and is good at it. Those cooks will make good use of the kitchens that are in the dorms and you will benefit from it. And there is always the option of learning to cook yourself (but you should only do this as a last resort).