burgler09

ayoub, I bought my bmw in cash if that explains anything

poker has a lot of swings and there were days I was down over 1000 dollars and there were days I was up over 2000. In the 5 months I played 'professionally' I made in the 5 digits. I've been around poker my whole life, my grandpa was a poker pro in the 70's and 80's, he is friends with a lot of those big named players that you see on tv. My two uncles both make their house payments with it.

Hamadeh

Ayoub, ***, GET AN APARTMENT!
Why do you want to deal with slutty girls? Retarded guys that'll drop out next year? Meet cool people in class, if you like them a lot, invite them over and they'll be impressed, and probably want to come over more often. Idk, But I am defintley getting an Apartment for the first 3 months, then hopefully a condo, cause a condo actually makes you money, instead of wasting it.

Apartment > Dorm

kelseyg

This usually doesn't happen. Most people meet their first set of friends while living on campus, or sometimes from clubs... usually not in their classes until you're enough into your major to be seeing the same people often.

Think about it... if you met someone cool in a class, would you visit them more often if they lived in the same dorm building or one close by/one where other friends live, or in some apartment they have to go off-campus to get to to visit one person? College apartments aren't super nice like ones on TV that will impress people.

Student35

Why do you want to deal with slutty girls? Retarded guys that'll drop out next year?

That is a very poor generalization. A lot of schools require freshman and sometimes sophomores to live in dorms. Even when that's not the case, do you really think all who live in dorms meet your obviously uneducated stereotype?

Lumine

^^ And, hamadeh, you don't seem to realize that many people in your classes will be THOSE SAME people from the dorms. I disagree with your stereotyping, but if it were to be true, there's a bigger problem than their housing situation.

Ayoub

burgler ---> damn nice...

everyone else ---> so far im leaning towards dorming, but keep the comments/opinions coming!

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BCEagle91

My son has an apartment but he's closer to the school buildings than the dorms and he likes a lot of peace and quiet for studying. The apartment is up to code (CO detectors, fire alarms in every room, sprinklers, multiple exits, he can go out a window from every room except for the living room. He lives across the street from the police station and above a bank and food is across the street.

If you're looking at an apartment, check for fire safety. I've read too many stories of kids getting killed because of apartment fires.

There are eight units and only three are occupied including his. The rules on the building are very, very strict. There are lots of other apartments in the neighborhood with undergraduates and I see a ton of parties. I've seen the streams of kids that walk from the dorms over to the off-campus apartments for parties.

I think that the choice is highly dependent on the individual situation. Off-campus housing may not be available or affordable or safe or close to the campus. If it's not close, then you might tend to do fewer things on campus and may have transportation issues. Consider the safety of apartments as dorms are usually secured. With dorms, I think that you have less privacy.

And you could wind up with a difficult roommate. With an apartment, you have to get furniture unless you don't mind sleeping and working on the floor.

You have to deal with trash such as putting out barrels once a week.

Dorms can be noisy. Apartments can be noisy. The one-year lease may mean that you pay for three months that you don't actually use.

Our son didn't have the option of a dorm given our late start on college stuff.

Ayoub

thank you BCEagle91, very helpful

Ayoub

does anyone know how the dorm/apartments are like at UCLA or USC?