Maybe both? Started in a dorm and then moved off campus? Currently, in a dorm with three other girls.
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Did you do the dorm life or off campus?
u I did both. I was on campus for three years my undergrad and none since. I've gone back for my masters since. Now I live in an apartment with my girlfriend so I don't have to deal with the dorm bs that I know you prob have to. It isn't bad getting your feet wet that way too. I had some great times with roomies. We became good friends. My advice to you is choose very carefully who you move into an off campus place with. That can be bad blood and no moderation. Take your time and decide but great question for those in school or looking to move off campus.
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I’m in my second year of dorm life. First year was not great, double room and common coed (awkward!) bathroom down the hall. Had a lot of fun but privacy was awful. Now I’m in a 2+2 suite arrangement with a shared bath and a common area. Very different and much better. More privacy but still not great. Having a good roommate (assigned or chosen) makes all the difference.
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I was in the dorm for my freshmen and sophomore year of college and then was off campus for my junior and senior year. Both had its perks and disadvantages.
The pros of living on campus is that you don't miss out so much on what's going on on campus like all the campus parties and events. And your meals are prepared for you.
The cons are the communal showers. There was one girl in our dorm that pooed in one of the showers. It was so disgusting. The bathrooms aren't the best either. You also have to endure your roommate possibly sneaking in a guy into your dorm room and having to hear them fuck. Also the dorm rules and curfew (though this was just my college, Im not sure if you have curfew or not).
The pros of living off campus is the freedom to do whatever you want. There are no rules. You can stay out as late as you want, bring guys into your room without worrying about upsetting your roommate. The shower and bathroom are clean because you cleaned them.
The drawback is it's no more getting your meals cooked for you. You have to go grocery shopping and cook for yourself. You have bills such as utility bills and rent you have to keep up with so you have to get a job unless you're on scholarship and can use that money to pay for food and rent and utilities. 
Both. First two years in the dorms. I actually was very lucky in that my freshman year I ended up in a suite where I was sharing a bathroom with eight people instead of like 60, haha. AND, my band geek roommate (no hate, except 6 AM alarm clocks on Saturday mornings for football games) bailed out and got a room with his friend, and I ended up with a double-single, and I pushed the beds together and all that, haha. I spent the rest of the year worrying every day that they’d move someone new in, but it never happened.
Then sophomore year I had a “corner” room in these dorms that were big 22-story towers, and that was smaller than a “Z-room”, which was Z shaped and you each got your own section of the room to yourself. I liked my roommate, but it was so tight in there that we agreed to see if we could get a relocation. A room finally opened up for me, a Z-room, and I moved into there. There was a roommate in that room, but I was wicked lucky again in that he was a 5th year senior just taking like two classes one day a week, so he’d show up Monday evening, go to class Tuesday, and then he went back home, hours away. So I pretty much had the room to myself again.
Then I was able to move off campus junior year, and my girlfriend from back home came out to get a place with me. I was very fortunate with housing on and off campus in the near-decade I was in college😂
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Off campus in an apartment but I kind of wish I tried the dorm life if I did things over again since it was almost an hour drive each morning to and from school.
Sometimes I nearly got in car crashes during exam weeks dozing off on the wheel from studying all night, running through red lights while asleep on the wheel.
The idea of just sleeping on campus sounds so much easier without driving back and forth all the time. I would have needed a roommate who was as serious about studying as I was though if I had to share a room.
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It was many years ago. I went to a college in my hometown.
I lived off-campus. For my Freshman (first) year, I lived with my parents, then I got my own apartment and lived there until graduation. Most of my friends lived in off-campus housing, not in dorms.
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No, I used to rent an apartment, that was previously inhabited by junkies, alcoholics and criminals and they made it infested with bed bugs and cockroaches. The ceiling in the kitchen was dropping tiny parts of itself. The doors next to the building entrance was a rehab facility for these junkies. Naturally that apartment has rent prices for such low life scum and my financial situation was no better than on that level. That's what I get for being born broke.
I'm not roomsharing with junkies or degenerates. I was on a mission to GTFO of being in that situation by any means necessary.
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My undergraduate was in the same city I was raised, I played it smart & saved money living with my parents 🙃 LOL. Often I would visit and sleepover at dorms or a few frat houses, so I was a pretentious college dormie Lol. College days was really fun~
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i went to apply for college planning to liv at home off campus.
but in office i asked if i would earn a bachelor degree or master?
he said associate degree. i askd what is that. he was too lazy to explain and said if you don't even know that! you won't understand college!
so i failed my interview but i didn't wanna admit my failure to my parents so i asked them if i go to that college "it will be convenient to go from here each morning." parents said if you go to colleg you can't stay here. so i said "if so i won't study at college" hiding i was rejected.
i didn't start the associate degree so i could live at home free.
later i dormed for bachelor n master degrees.
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My freshman year, I lived by myself in a double dorm by default because both my freshman roommates consecutively moved out into their own apartments first semester which was awesome. Then I had a roommate in a double, for my sophomore/junior years before FINALLY getting another single dorm on the penthouse floor, my senior year. Glorious.
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I was in a dorm my freshman year and that was two years too long. I got an apartment with 2 buddies for our sophomore year. (Of course, I did meet those guys in my dorm which is how I got all my friends that first year.)
So, I'd still recommend off-campus and NON-GREEK life ASAP, but that first year in a dorm is probably best since, for many kids, this is your first time away from home and having to have some responsibility for your own survival. -
I lived at home still. It was a 45 minute drive but was cheaper than living somewhere else. Saved so much money to have as a down payment.
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I lived in dorms for two years, and then an on-campus apartment for a year. Senior year and grad school I lived off campus.
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No. It likely would’ve changed me and made me wild. I am wild but in my own self-control type of way. I like that i went to class and then straight home. I've never been into the partying, drinking, hookup lifestyle
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I didn't study at a campus university. I started in a shared flat of three people. While living in the shared flat the members changed so it wasn't the same people all the time. Later I moved in with my now husband shortly before finishing my degree.
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In college I was in a dorm all 3 years when I wasn’t shacking up at my gf’s house. But dorms are fun; used to do “rounds” at night with my roomie to meet new people across campus
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I shared a dorm but left within a year to go solo in my own apartment which I rented for the rest of my term.
I later bought that small complex after I graduated from the aging landlord.
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Both. Dorm first 2 years. Last 2 years I got a place off campus with a teammate.
Hated the dorm
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stayed home and had own apt w family. no interest in dorm. no interest in taking on other poorly trained brats, if so unlucky. school selection/character of students critical for that.
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at my parents'
college was a few minutes away
I did quit college half-way though... and moved to our place, with the girlfriend at the time -
Off campus as in didn't go to college, I was way off campus 💀
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I lived in a dorm for 3 semesters. Then I transferred to a different school and commuted.
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