No on campus housing?

BP-TheGuy88
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:11:04 +0000

and say the exact opposite. maybe i’ll be the lone one saying so idk. but i commuted and it sucked. and i was local too. it’s a very different atmosphere for commuters at fordham. there is still a divide that can be felt, especially that first year, because freshman are getting to meet each other in the dorms, and the commuters can’t meet as many freshman since they commute. they can try to stay and hang out but even that’s tough since you are commuting. and as far as staying over night at dorms if you commute, good luck. fordham is horrible when it comes to having non-dorm residents into your building, even if you dorm on campus. i could live in hughes and if i try to have someone over from almuni court south, they have to get signed in and show id. otherwise you can’t go in. and then you have to get signed out. stay passed 330am and you get fined unless you get a visitor’s pass which you have to get at least a day in advance i believe.

some people say that it’ll be better if you commute and healthy for you, but that’s because they went through it. unless you go through it yourself you’re always going to be left wondering what it could have been like dorming. it’s quite different from commuting. i live in the bronx, and i still dorm.

on a side note, i’ve noticed fordham can be really weird about assigning housing. i’ve had friends who were from nj who didn’t get offered housing their freshman year. those friends ended up just renting an apt off campus. i’ve also met people who lived right in the area (the bronx, and other parts of the city) but were offered housing. i won’t try to make sense of it. maybe their exceptions or have excruciating circumstances. who knows, but weirder things have happened.

the important thing is that if you want to dorm you should get your name on that waiting list asap. if you don’t get it first semester, you’ll probably have a better chance of getting it the second semester as many people transfer out or leave school for whatever reason.