Questions about college

SEA_tide
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:51:40 +0000

I go to a college across the country from my home, but in my experience:


It depends on how much of your wardrobe you brought to college. I know people who have all their clothes at college and take their clothes home to wash. There is always the small possibility of theft, but few people are going to steal another person’s clothes unless it’s a prank. I still have a lot of clothes at home, so I don’t bother taking my clothes home for breaks. At least at my school, doing laundry is pretty easy, so there is little need to bring stuff home to wash unless you want to. Out of the 2.5 hours a week I spend doing laundry, for 90 minutes I’m back in my room on my laptop waiting for my laundry to be done. I agree, don’t go home every weekend. Some of my favorite times on campus have occured on weekends.
I live in a suite situation where I have my own room, but I only take my laptop to class when I have a presentation or a long wait between classes. Otherwise, it’s in my dorm room which seems to be the case with others on campus, including those with roommates.
People say this a lot, but college is what you make of it. Is college all that I expected? Not always. It is a lot better than high school, IMHO. There will be difficult classes, people you don’t get along with, and probably times you will miss home, but there are new people to meet, new activities to do, and generally a lot more freedom to do what you want to do.
People that share a dorm room will have more detailed insight, but there actually is a lot of privacy when dorming if you want it, it just may be outside your room or in another part of campus. If you’re used to having 1,000 sq. feet of a house all to yourself, then yes, it will be a change. My dorm has a lot of study rooms/lounges to go to when I want to be out of my room and there is always going out for a walk around campus or finding a nice quiet corner of the library to sit in.