Dorms Suck

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I would like a female roommate. We might fight a lot but I'd be a lot happier and wouldn't be quite so pissed off all the time. 'Tis just a fantasy though.

I love my dorm though I know my experience is not all that common even on my campus. The dorm I'm in is right in the middle of campus so I can practically role out of bed into class (my best time from sleep to sitting in class is 6 minutes). In addition to that, it has massively thick walls and there are no noisy rooms anywhere near me so it is quiet as a tomb.

I am in a triple suit (a double with an attached single). I am in the single and my two room mates are in the double. Both rooms have a door to the hallway and connecting door between them. I get get all the perks of room mates with none of the hassles. One of my room mates is kind of a douche bag but the other one is very nice and supportive. They both assumed that I had AS before I told them and they are fine with it so long as I don't get super emotional with them. We will probably room together again next year.

hmm.

nice thing I love about my dorm is that it's one minute from our eating area. thing I don't love is that the farthest building takes about 10 minutes to get to. and not to mention in the cold or rainy weather it sucks.

thankfully I only have one morning class a week. the rest are all midmorning or afternoon.

At my dorm (Scott Hall at the University of Nebraska, Omaha) it's limited to computer science, bioinformatics, and engineering majors. The food is great (same people cook for us as cook for the busy conference center attacahed) and meals are included with the room (which is free and only available to those on a specific tech-related scholarship) They'll make most anything you request, and are serving from 6 am until 8 pm normally.

Also, we get maid service daily for common areas, weekly for the rest, only 4 bedrooms to a suite, each person has a private bedroom, and a roughly 5gbps pipe that goes to the university is shared with us (only about 300 students in the dorm, total), so at night, when no one is at the school... yea..... fast!

Heh, we have about sixty people in our dorm, which is kind of small. As far as majors go, it is very diverse... my roommate is an art major, next door, there is philosophy and physics and across the hall is elementary education and German.

The only bad thing about my dorm is that it is the farthest dorm from the science center, where I have most of my classes. Oh well, it's good exercise walking there and back at least a few times every day, right?

Having a "good" dorm environment is well worth a bit of a walk. Believe me, it could be worse. You could have a horrible dorm environment (like an all-male dorm that smells, is always loud, and has people up til the wee hours of the morning) and a hike to get to where you need to be.

Thank god I only had to be in that place for one year...

I was in school for two years before I moved into a dorm, which gave me time to figure out the one that would be best for me. The one I was in had mostly upper-classmen girls and had great bathroom facilities. Believe me. Sharing a room with a mature girl was a piece of cake compared to all my years sharing a two-bedroom home with the Children of the Corn (my little brother and sister).

They were unruly, hard-headed kids who were pretty much allowed by our mother to do whatever the heck they wanted including tearing up my belongings, running wild, fighting and not having to clean up after themselves. So living in the dorms away from them saved my sanity. It was a sad day when the semester ended.......and I had to go back home.

The last dorm I was in is the largest residential building in Wyoming, the one I am in now is its twin.

Happily, that part of my life is behind me!

Dirty restrooms, people flushing the toilet when you're in the shower, roommates whose half of the room makes a pigsty look neat, roommates who came in early in the morning as I was preparing to leave for class, bad food (and fattening, to add insult to injury) and loud music in a dorm supposed designated as "quiet."

No, I don't miss that at all. I am happy to have my cats as roommates. They're cleaner and make less noise, even my very vocal Siamese.

Heh.

With my dorm, we're up til 2 or 3 on the week days, I'm usally out by two, and 3 or 4 on the weekends. usually 3ish on the weekends, cept for Sunday when I have class the next morn at 730....ugh.

There are some jerks on the floor, but it's not all that bad.

I'm not exactly a neat freak. I have wires running everywhere, papers everywhere, food stuf that i eat, either in the closet, or in my fridge if its preversative, or up above the desk. I have clothes lying on the floor, and I don't care.

My parents make me keep my room at home clean, but when I came home for xmas break...HAH!

Yeah.

Nice thing is, that the weekends are quiet. and I watch West Wing (season 4 this coming week) or Star Trek: Enterprise (season 1 currently) or DIgimon (got it off of Ebay. all four seasons with the movies.)

If I went to a university, I would REALLY MISS being far away from my friends...but I'm sure I'd meet some new ones in the meantime!

heh.'

I don't miss home.

well sorta, I have to say I do miss it when I am at home, to make my parents happy.

But dorms are great.

minus the weight gaining food.

but their awesome.

so are the girls.

It is rather ironic, then, that I have actually lost weight since coming up to school as opposed to gaining weight...

Really?

Wow. I wish I was as lucky as you.

I spend 40 minutes twice a day in the weight room on the eliptical bike, and I doubt it makes a difference. I went from a size 32 to a size 34. that's bad.

Well, I went to college for 3 years in the town that my family lived in so I lived at home, but in fall 2005 I transfered to another college. My first term away I live in apartment because housing could not house me on campus due to over crowding. It was awful, because all kinds of things happened. However, for the spring term I moved into the dorms and I love it. I had a great roommate and everything. However, this year has been very different. I started out with a roommate (freshmen (18) and me senior (22)) she moved into another dorm after a month of us living together. Which I was really happy about because I couldn't live with her. However, I still wanted a roommate but housing couldn't find one for me so I had a single room. It was nice but I need the social interaction of other people. (This problem is how I came to this site!) So, I'm back at school of the spring term and in a single room. I think it will work but I still have the problem of meeting people and having someone to eat meals with.

By the way the dorm, I'm in is one that has international students in it which is fun because they like to meet new people and also there are more upper classmen in this dorm. Overall, I like living in the dorms because I'm close to everything and I don't have to worry about anything because if the heat doesn't work, I just have to tell someone and they will fix it.

ah.

coo. cool.