Questions about college

SmithieandProud
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:38:46 +0000

Why would you pack up all of your stuff? Usually you would just have some things at home and some things at your dorm. Don’t plan to come home every weekend though, or even most weekends. It will eat into your studying time and make it really hard to make friends. Most of the socializing you will do will be in unstructured weekend things that just happen spontaneously around campus or in the dorms, if you’re not around, you’ll miss out on that and look up one day to find out that everyone’s made their friends for the semester and not with you. Go home for one or two weekends a semester, and bring friends with you from school, they will enjoy the chance at home-cooking and free laundry. Otherwise, stay on campus. Study, meet people, go to parties, be independent.

My college was safer than most but I definitely did not take my laptop with me everywhere, I don’t know anyone who does that. If you’re worried about safety, you can get locks that will allow you to lock it to your desk, but the best thing is just to take common sense precautions. Lock your dorm room door. Don’t leave it sitting out in the library unless you’ve asked someone to watch it.

And yes, college is fun. So much fun you just don’t even know yet.