#Poll Did you leave home when attending college?

[DizzyDesii]

Please answer the poll and #FeelFreeToList other details below if you’d like.
Classes were only two days a week and my schools were all only 20 mins from home so I definitely chose to stay home. Dorms were like $4,000 a semester and not worth it in my opinion. I’m not a people person and would’ve hated rooming with a stranger. I would’ve like to be the resident dorm person but they’re often hated for being strict about curfew and co-ed stuff so I rather not. I dont regret staying home. I just regret how much of a waste college was lmao. Anyways, my school always threw events that anyone could attend, student or not, on campus or not. So no one ever truly knew who attended there. At my first school, I never attended a game but at my second, I attended at least 3 that whole year haha. Football and baseball games were just excuses to meet hot guys during tailgating anyways 😂
#FeelFreeToList #SchoolDaze

I went to a college in a different city

I went to a college in a different state

I studied abroad in a different country

I went to a college in my town but lived in a dorm

I went to a college in my town but lived in an apartment

I went to a college in my town and lived at home with family while doing so

I have not attended college yet/I will not ever attend college

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Oooo Very interesting and surprising poll answers. Please vote if you haven't 🙏

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Moved away to a different city in a different state. Settled for a dorm room first but didn't find it appealing. Moved out of the dorm in less than a year to an apartment nearby. Worked 2 jobs, including working for my Landlord. I was also investing in stocks while living in that apartment during the remaining college years. I struck a deal with my Landlord to buy his small 22-unit building for myself as my graduation gift and as my first full-time business. He later worked for me, continuing on as the live-in Manager 'til he died of old age.

After I consolidated my investment assets, employment earnings and business profits, I fully-paid that apartment building in only 10 years. Long before my Manager died, he proudly saw the day I paid off my mortgage for that property. We had mutual genuine respect for each other and treated each other well, like family. I soon found out after his death that he named me as the sole beneficiary of his life insurance. I named one of the properties I bought after him.

[DizzyDesii]

Holy smokes that is an amazing blessing but may he rip

[Heartache0405]

Yes, but I left for the wrong reasons.


My parents wanted me to go to a local community college at home that had no dorms so I would have had to drive back and forth and at the time I didn’t even have a car and I still had a major phobia of driving.


A girl I was in a relationship with at the time who lived 3 hours away recommended a community college with dorms in her town and me being a total love struck dumbass did everything I could to persuade my parents to allow me to go. I applied without their consent and got in. My dad told me he wouldn’t let me go but when I asked him if he would have done the exact same thing I did when he was my age he folded and said yes so he let me go.


Come to find out that a week or two after I started classes, my at the time girlfriend started to cheat on me with a dude in her construction class. (She was still a senior in high school.) when I confronted her and broke up with her I was completely alone save for a few friends who led to a decent friend group. But I had no car and had to completely rely on my friends.

[DizzyDesii]

Dsmn thats messed up that she cheated. Im glad you ended it though. Also, i went to one of the few community colleges that included dorms. But i sold it. When i got to uni, i for sure wasn't stayin in thsoe expensive ass dorms

[Heartache0405]

The dorms at the community college I went to for that girl were incredible. They had the washer and dryer in our rooms instead of down the hall or in another building altogether. Also had a dishwasher too. And our own individual bedrooms with individual thermostats in each bedroom. It was more like a shared apartment. I downgraded sense then 😅

[JoseJr]

I lived near detroit growing up. When college time came around I moved out to Ann Arbor, MI even tho I attended a school roughly 30 mins away. My university (Lawrence Tech) does have all that dorm and other bs but quite frankly the parties are nothing compared to the ones in Ann Arbor. So I ended up renting a house in Ann Arbor and driving those 30mins every other day. Like you, I really did it more to get around the girls. But it was a pain in the ass to live there truth be told, no garage so I had to pay monthly to park my slingshot inside a parking structure. I drive a lifted truck as my daily and its was a struggle to park in the driveway, hard to drive it around the city. But once again hella girls so ig the struggle were worth it. But like you i regret spending that amount of money on uni, shit was a waste of resources lol

[DizzyDesii]

I graduated top of class so i went for free. But it was still a waste of time because i didn't ger a career out of it

[JoseJr]

Damn then im just hella stupid, I just ended up dropping out lol them student loan hurt back when I was paying for them, biggest waste of money

[DizzyDesii]

That is why i didn't go to grad school because it was loans only

[Anonymous]

I live in a huge city, but always joke that I never left the circle. My high school and pre-school were both about 5 minutes away from my university, and 30 minutes away from my house, but my parents really wanted me to have the full college experience, and so did I, so I lived on campus. I had ups and downs with various roommates for sure, and did better enjoy living in a single my senior year, but I would not have changed my experiences at all. There were so many times that I rolled out of bed and was literally in class 5 minutes later. The literal convenience of that and being able to study on campus no distractions when finals rolled around. I met a few life long friends who also lived in the dorms, got to date my high school boyfriend a little while longer (before we broke up) as adults not constrained by parent rules and restrictions, and I just had a good time. Our dorm wasn't all that strict either. The only cardinal rules were no open flames, no underage drinking, no drugs, but other than that, they didn't bother you and there certainly was no curfew.

[DizzyDesii]

I dont think i wouldve focused in campus. I wouldve been too busy going on dates rather than studying lmao. But im not a partier so i wasn't worried about drinking or drugs or hookups

[Opinion Owner]

Everything always depends on the person in these situations whether you stay at home or live in the dorms because you can get yourself into trouble either way. They tell you at orientation to figure out how to balance your life and the ones that don't, mess up.

[strawhatEli]

Yes, my college was in another state. I stayed in a dorm. In my 1st year I had two roommates, one was very introverted, busy with his work, other one I had no idea when he came to room and when he went out.
Next year I had four roommates. And the adjacent room had 5 more guys, most of them were extroverts and eventually my room became a hot spot. In the initial phase it was okay, people used to stay around and all, but then it became irrigating. I fucking hated it. I used to wake very first in the morning, and leave the room and only come back for something things like books/stationary/etc otherwise didn't return back until late night when half of them were asleep. I spent most of my time either roaming around or with other people who were not as loud as my roommates.

Although now I miss those days, once in a while that sound of extroverts is necessary, otherwise one starts feeling depressed 😂

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i wouldve hated being around so many daily

[DizzyDesii]

Are you done with college now?

[strawhatEli]

Yes. I graduated this year, but anyway my last year was online, so I did it from home

[DizzyDesii]

Congrats graduate! 🙏 What did you major in? I regret my business major back then. I shouldve just gone to trade school lol

[strawhatEli]

Computer Engineering. I regret my major too, I should have gotten into physics or history 😂

[DizzyDesii]

I feel like i should know this but can you break physics down for me? Is that like science stuff or math? Ooo yea you probably would’ve made a good history or philosophy teacher. I wouldve liked to have been a creative writing teacher. Or i couldve done interior design or graphic design or even film stuff :D

[strawhatEli]

Physics is science, in layman terms, how stuff works, like gravity, electricity, etc.

I could still teach history 😂 I'm way better & know more things than all the history teachers I ever had.

Yes, those professions would have definitely suited you, especially film making or graphics.

[DizzyDesii]

Thank you :) I really hope you go into one of those you mentioned if engineering doesn't please you in the long run. Are you going to stay in your current state or move states?

[strawhatEli]

Probably will shift to something else, let's hope for the best.

My job as of now is work from home, so I'm staying with my parents, but once that ends I need to move to the city where my office is, that's in a different state, but still near by, one night journey.

[DizzyDesii]

I can totally relate. I've been home since the pandemic but I kind of want to move to NC just a bit nervous to go 10 hours from home to a state where I know no one. I definitely want to shift jobs because im not a fan of this financial advising stuff I’ve been doing. And they’re training us on credit appeals next and i just do not want to do this anymore. 3 years was enough. It would be nice to find a radio station job or something where I can work while listening to music. I’d love to be a jinglewriter for commercials but apparently you need some kind of certification or something

[strawhatEli]

NC is North Carolina right? I'm not from States so not sure.. I feel you, I also know no one except my boss in the new place. This is my first job and I have never been to office.

If you're not satisfied you should definitely change your job but also consider your financial status before making a decision. Also you could look out for part time jobs to follow your passion while working for the financial firm for a few more years until you get settled in your job.

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i saved up more than enough to move. Just haven't yet. And oh your profile said USA lol

[strawhatEli]

Then all the best for that!

Oh is it? I'm new on this app, I kind of don't even know where to make the change 😅

[DizzyDesii]

Lol go to profile settings

[strawhatEli]

Yes will definitely do that, thanks for the letting me know, otherwise it would have stayed the same 😂😂

[Uptowngirl88]

Both

While in high school I was accepted into an academic program for students with a 3.7gpa. So from freshmen to senior year I attended cal Lutheran University every summer. I wasn't sure what I wanted to be so I just took mediocre courses which I regret. I wish I knew what I wanted to do because I could've knocked those classes out right then and there.

Stayed home for the LPN program

RN program- by this time I had moved to NC because my family are a bunch of crabs in a barrel and don't want to do anything with their lives so I moved for better opportunities and here's when I entered the RN program. Then chose a hospital in Florida I wanted to intern which was Baptist hospital. I just wanted to travel so I chose a distant hospital to intern.

[Uptowngirl88]

For my BS in health administration did that while in cali

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i only went to school because of graduating top of my class with a high gpa. Otherwise, i didn't even consider college. I wish i went to trade school

[Uptowngirl88]

Trade school is better gets straight to the point. These other colleges give u bullshit gen Ed's that have nothing to do with your career. just dumb

[DizzyDesii]

Yea like if i wouldve gone for a Masters in biz, they assigned more calculus’ to take and i was like nope screw it. Im stopping at bachelors

[Uptowngirl88]

Right I'm not even sure why you would need calculus in business? That's just crazy. Math yes I understand but calculus math is just unnecessary.

[DizzyDesii]

I took calculus my sophomore year and it was my first D ever. I wanted to cry but shit the whole class failed except one guy 😂 It was hard af and the teacher couldnt teach. So i was not goin to grad school to take it again

[Uptowngirl88]

Nobody passes calculus 🤣 except for those nerds obsessed with feeling important. So they stay in their basement all day doing calculus. Don't get me wrong im a nerd but not to that extent

[DizzyDesii]

The teacher saw how hard i tried but i failed every test. He told me if i could get an A on the final thag he’d pass me with a C. Like how ima get an A if i failed all the other tests 🤣 So i said fck it and cheated. The whole class did. And we still failed for not “showing our work” as to how we got the math answer. 🤣

[Anonymous]

Bruh ! Bruuuuuh 😂 leme tell u why i could not vote any... id give my vote here... I WENT TO UNIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT CITY BUT STAYED AT HOME 😂 im actually laughing at this... so gettin outta my city n reaching that city where my campus was and then entering the university all this would take 20 to 35 minutes on average depending on transport and traffic... this is also cuz we live near to exit of city so dont have to cover the distance through whole city... oof i feel like sharing pics of campus

[DizzyDesii]

Ahh i forgot that option lol

[DizzyDesii]

Just choose the one that says you lived at home

[Opinion Owner]

I dont think that option would be needed its kinda super rare stuff... but how u find my campus by the way? Iss huuuuuugggeeee

[Lucy68]

I went off to college and was like 2 1/2 hours away from home. I went to college in north Alabama (I'm originally from south Alabama). I did miss home a good bit cause you know north Alabama is different from south Alabama. But i enjoyed being away met a lot of interesting people

[DizzyDesii]

How different are the two

[SecretsofKB]

Went to college 3 hours away right out of high school. Stayed in the dorms my first year. Went home the summer after then moved back to start my second year.

Lived off-campus the rest of my time in school and never went back for summers. I just stayed in the city. I'm actually still living here lol

I fell in love with this city.

[DizzyDesii]

What state are you

[SpiderManFan2002]

I’m currently at university, and I stayed in my hometown so I see no reason to move out- I probably would have had moving out not come with a massive debt, just because it’s good to have that sense of independence- but moving out means more student debt, so no thank you lol

[DizzyDesii]

Very very true

[MTC29]

I lived at home. The trip to my community college was an easy drive on city streets. When I transferred to a state college I had to start driving on the freeway and time spent in traffic v/studying began adding up. When I entered grad school the university was, under ideal conditions, a 45-minute drive each way. The reality was my spending 10 to 12 hours per week of valuable study time commuting.

[DizzyDesii]

Wow yea i would hate that commute because i dont like driving

[Cherry234]

I went to a college near my hometown and dormed almost every semester. There was one semester where I started dorming but then left my dorm in the middle of the semester when covid started. I stayed at home for the rest of the semester (classes were online on zoom). There was also another semester when I commuted to my school (also during covid). But I stayed on campus for my last semester of college.

[DizzyDesii]

Was it hard taking classes by zoom?

[Cherry234]

Sometimes

[Slartybartfast]

I got in a fistfight with my stepdad (it was the day I found my girlfriend cheated and wasn't in the mood to take crap that day) and moved out. I took out loans, worked overtime delivering Pizza went to college on my own and lived in my car (that I bought myself)

[DizzyDesii]

Wow but you no longer have to live in your car right? I wish a friend wouldve let you stay over

[Slartybartfast]

Oh that was a long long time ago. I bought my first house at 26.

[DizzyDesii]

Its only been 5 years since lol

[Slartybartfast]

No, sorry, I'm much older ( In My bio ) I should probably just make a new account. I don't like to put real info online.

[lightbulb27]

at home a year and rest out of state. If I had my way, I'd stay home. All it does is take time away from studying. I worked my tail off to succeed... college is too expensive to screw up or mess around.

[DizzyDesii]

I agree! If i wouldve stayed on campus, i wouldve been more focused on flirting with guys then studyin

[Pink2000]

I go to college in a different city. I have my own place but I’m at my parents often cause my child is with them lmao. My school is only a 30 min drive from their house but it feels like an hour. I hate the drive so when I don’t have class I just stay with them and when I do I stay at my apt.

[DizzyDesii]

By child you mean puppy right? Lmao

[Pink2000]

Yes my dog child she’s basically a human with 4 legs. She has a car seat and everything.

[ODC2112]

I went to a university both Bachelor and Master in the city where i was born that is near where i live. I have always lived at home with my parents as is normal here in Italy. The same happened for the PhD, where I was studying in Milan and commuting. In Milan the cost of living was too high, I couldn't afford a rent with a doctoral scholarship and at the same time eat. I only lived in the periods I spent in Sweden and the Netherlands.

[DizzyDesii]

Whats your home country

[ODC2112]

Italy

[Wraith_Cemetery]

Did my first four years in my hometown in Ireland and received a degree, then did another year in Germany to upgrade. Lived there for a bit after that. Then did 3 more years in Canada for another degree. A lot of school and degrees I know haha.

[DizzyDesii]

Holy smokes yea

[NathanDavis]

nope... when I started college I was still living at home

then I stopped college, and also move out from home... I started to work and to live by myself (with a roommate actually)

[DizzyDesii]

I shouldve gone to trade school instead

[NathanDavis]

I almost went into the construction business... both, as a worker and a contractor, but hot summer Texas kept me away from that path... lol

[DizzyDesii]

Damn that wouldve been a hawt career 😍

[NathanDavis]

I can still build you a shed or garage, let me know... lol

[DizzyDesii]

What about a house 🤣

[NathanDavis]

yes, that's doable... and can design it as well, since is part of what I studied in high-school

[DizzyDesii]

I have the design covered haha. I just need a builder someday ;-)

[NathanDavis]

do you prefer tile floor or wooden?

[DizzyDesii]

Polished concrete

[NathanDavis]

nice, I do like the idea of that... especially with that many kids around, lol

[DizzyDesii]

Lmao im not trying to have 12 anymore haha. That was if i started at 18. Now its at least 2 with at least one being biological. Also, i want concrete in the kitchen, hallways and bathroom but i worry about young children falling while running. Polished Concrete is slippery and not something they need to fall on. But yes i’d like wood in the living room and either wood or carpet in the bedrooms

[NathanDavis]

yes, don't you worry about that...

I'd make sure to give it a good proper sealing and a finish... additives take care of being too slippery, water and moist resistance, and it can also be anti-bacterial, and very easy to maintain and clean up

[DizzyDesii]

Nice to know haha

[TrueConfection]

I voted F, but it's not entirely accurate. My parents wouldn't allow me to live at school. I went to a private university and the commute was almost an hour each way.

[DizzyDesii]

Wow why did they not want that? The private uni that wanted me was a Christian school with mandatory Bible study so my fam pushed for me to live on campus but i chose to go to another achook

[TrueConfection]

No. My family is very controlling.

[TwistedSukuna]

I'm currently living with my family while I attend community college, but plan on transferring to a bigger college in the state after my 2nd year here, so I'll be moving out then.

[DizzyDesii]

Nice

[matchrestore]

I went to a college in a different state, although it was only 85 miles away from home.

[DizzyDesii]

Was that like an hour and a half away?

[matchrestore]

Less... we go 80 on Interstate.

[annabananna]

My college was two hours away from home so no I didn’t live home. It made it more difficult though. I had to work two jobs to pay for bills and that gave me not so much time to study and when I did have time I was tired out.

[DizzyDesii]

Dang im sorry you dealt with that

[Jasmine-Darkfire]

Currently full time college, living with my dad at home but taking mass transit to school each day for classes that are not online.

Some can be online, some are in person for obvious reasons as I'm going into the Healthcare field.

[WonderBell99]

My brother moved to a different country for college lol. He went to the UK, he is studying medicine there (:


I’m planning to go to medical school in my country, and I’ll be staying at home. Im not moving. However, I’d be moving out as soon as I complete my UG. I’d move to a different country for PG.

[DizzyDesii]

Do med schools have dorms? Or do they usually buy a separate apartment

[WonderBell99]

Not like dorms per se, it’s more like independent student accommodations.

[WonderBell99]

I can’t speak for all students though. My brother lives off-campus.