| I'm a commuter and I enjoy it a lot. As you get more and more into your major, you'll start seeing the same people over and over again and start to speak with them on good terms. I know pretty much every upper level CS major by name, and feel comfortable speaking with just about all of them whenever, it certainly wasn't like that when I first started commuting.
I'm not concerned about parties and stuff like that, and I'm actually glad that commuting has given me the distance I need from this University so that I can focus on the things that are important to me, and keep my priorities straight. But while a friend of mine (who dorms), and myself were talking about the whole commuting/dorming thing, he told me that he's got a friend who's a commuter and that he thought that the guy dormed at first, because he was always around campus and everything all the time, so you can be there as much as you want probably.
But seriously, considering how many graduates are going to be "boomeranging" right back home after graduation (after going *gasp* at real world rent prices), I think it's better to have never left in the first place, you'll certainly avoid a lot of trouble later on if you wind up living at home after graduation. |