Living on- vs off-campus

monydad
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 05:34:38 +0000

Thinking about it:

If you go to the apartment right away you’ll have better housing, and you might strike up friendships with a few of your fellow transfers, and maybe otherers in the house. But that’s not so many people.

If you go to the freshman dorm you’ll be living in a dorm again. But there’s the opportunity of meeting a lot more students. And more students who are not transfers. The only thing is they will be freshman so the relationship may be different/less complete. We had less to do with the sophomores who lived in my freshman dorm, But not nothing either. We still got to know them, and vica versa, You might even strike up a friendship with some RAs there.
And then if you get re-deployed second semester you’ll get to meet the people in the next place too.

So there’s the possibility of gaining a broader infrastructure of acquaintances via the dorm route. Albeit freshman acquaintances.

But that might not pan out, due to your different status, and then you’re just stuck in a dorm again with people you have little in common with. Or you just can’t stand living in a freshman dorm all over again. In that case you might have been better off in an apartment with some of your fellow transfer students.

So who knows. Make your choice and hope for the best.