Living at Home

surferbeach
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:35:49 +0000

It may be a good idea to live on campus for freshman year since you will meet more students living in the dorms and become a part of a tight knit community on your floor. It also encourages independent living beyond the home. Then, he or she could move back home and still maintain his or her core group of friends. At this point, he or she should join the Association of Commuter Students and become heavily involved. If your student is highly outgoing this could work out well. However, living amongst mostly other freshman students makes it easy to make long term friends who they will see everyday.

There are a large number of commuter students, but this statistic becomes manipulated by the large number of upper classmen who move to off-campus apartment complexes, many in Kendall and Brickell.

One of the most important aspects of this decision is how outgoing your student is. He or she will make many friends if he or she chooses to carefully select and participate in clubs, intermural sports, or other activities.