<p>He wasn’t living in a dorm with 18-21 year olds at age 14. He was a graduate student at 18 and given the choice to live in undergraduate housing (due to his age being closer to that of an undergrad) or graduate housing (since he was a grad student) and he has lived in graduate housing so far (and will be for the coming year as well as he has been on the committees for the new graduate dorm’s dining, furniture, IT, government, etc. and was elected to serve as an executive committee member for the coming year). For the year after that (when he will have turned 18), he is considering trying to get a graduate resident tutor (like an RA job at most dorms) for an undergraduate dorm near his lab or moving to a living community (shared house between undergraduates and graduates off campus). Trust me, had he wanted to live in the undergraduate dorm at 14 (which he didn’t), we wouldn’t have gone for it as we feel graduate students far more mature in general.</p>