<p>I live on Long Island (New York) and may be going to Staten Island College in Staten Island. I would be dorming there, but how is the experience of dorming anyway? Good? Bad? I currently share a room with my brother and live with 2 siblings, both older than me</p>
<p>Are you asking about how dorms are at that specific college or in general? </p>
<p>Living in the residence halls varies wildly depending on where you to go college, what your residence hall’s set up is like, and your own personality. The most traditional set-up is two same-year college students sharing a double room on a corridor-style hall, meaning that they also share the bathroom with anywhere from 10-30 other people (and usually a lounge and maybe a kitchen). A lot of colleges are moving away from that and doing more suite-style housing, where you still might share a room with someone else but your rooms are organized in pods of 4-8 people around 1-2 bathrooms, a common area and a kitchen. My freshman year I kind of lived in an in-between arrangement - I had a double room with a roommate, there were about 5 doubles on my wing of a floor, so about 10 young women shared a bathroom and a lounge at the end of the hall with a mini-kitchen.</p>
<p>Personally, I enjoy sharing space with other people and I actually really liked living in the residence hall in my freshman and sophomore years. Sophomore and junior year I was an RA, so I had a single (and sophomore year I had a HUGE single). But it’s basically a built-in community where you can go find your friends and see what they’re doing when you’re bored, and make some friends. Some people become close friends with their roommates (I did). Other people get closer to other folks on the floor or whatnot. Some people really hate sharing bathrooms in this way, but I didn’t really care. You spend so little time in the bathroom it didn’t make a difference. The RAs throw events and so does the res hall council, if you have one, so there’s lots to do in your actual hall (although that depends on where you go to school and how involved your RAs and res hall council are). You’re close to the dining hall and close to classes. Many of the friends I made in college I made with people who lived on my freshman year hall, or through people I lived with on my hall freshman year.</p>