Dorm life

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Anyone been to boarding schools and lived in the dorms? What about college dorms? I went to visit this all girls boarding school and noticed that the dorm hallway had exposed pipes in the ceiling and walls and I thought that was strange. Good thing the dorm rooms itself didn't have them. Also the basement is where the laundry room is. That is scary in a way. This all girls school has a sad incident that happened in the 1970s.

I currently live in a college dorm and...well, it sucks. Living in a small space with a bunch of other people isn't fun. I live in a coed dorm so there are both guys and girls on my floor. In fact, all of the dorms at my school are coed. There are a few floors in some buildings that are female, but most of them are coed. (This makes for a lack of privacy.) Don't get me wrong, some people love dorm life. It can get loud at night, but I've learned to deal with it. As per the acutal building, the hall I'm in was renovated a few years ago. It's a pretty decent/ efficient building. It's kept clean and the showers/sinks/toilets work fine. My only complaint is the laundry room. It smells badly of mildew. (I don't live too far away so I do my laundry at home. ) If the dorm gets too loud, there are other quiet places to study on campus. The library's second floor has a quiet study area, but I study between class and in the evening when the dorm isn't loud.

Next year, I'm applying to live in my school's newest building. It's always quiet there, and it's really nice. Instead of only having one women's and one men's bathroom on each floor, there is one bathroom every 4-6 people. That would be sweet! I might get a single room, too.

Oh that's good about the new dorm. I stayed at George Mason University's dorms few times. I stayed in the freshman only dorm and sophomores and other upper class dorm. It was co ed. So the neighbor could be a man. Men and Women bathrooms same floor and just one. Two stalls, two toilets, two sinks for maybe up to 20 or so people. I think laundry room was in another dorm. That's cool that there are more than one womens bathroom per floor at the new dorm. I never lived in the dorms in college. I live 15 min or so from campus so it was good. I couldn't deal with dorm life. I go to sleep early too and don't drink. So when I stayed at a classmate's dorm, I heard people being all loud in the hallways. It was quite annoying. But that's college. At least in boarding high schools lights out at a certain time for the students. So its more quiet. Wish colleges were like that. But the whole exposed pipes in the dorm hallway at this high class girls school shocked me. It's $50,000 a year to board! With that rate the girls should stay in nicer dorms that has AC!

The nice thing about my school is that it doesn't have traditional "dorms" with two or more people sharing what is effectively a studio apartment, but rather apartments! I live in a 2-bedroom apartment with one roommate, so I do have my own private bedroom! I would HATE to have it be like the men's locker room every time I have to change clothes... There are even a few single apartments that have a bedroom AND a living space! That would be sweet, but I feel like others need them more than I do.

Wow that sounds amazing. The dorms in my school are horrible. I say in, but it really just belongs to the school. You have to take a bus to get there and it's not connected to the actual university at all. The place actually used to be an old army camp, and when my school took over, they just wedged two to three beds, tables, cabinets, and chairs in what is basically at the very most a 4 by 4 meter room. The floors and walls are concrete, and the plastic ceiling lights are always falling off. It's like being in jail so no one ever goes to their rooms except to sleep (and then some people just prefer to sleep in the nicer study room). Plus it smells of mildew and there isn't even a kitchen area, just a communal microwave oven. When it rains the water just runs under the door and into the room.

I didn't stay long, moved back as soon as I could.

Ugh! What college is this, Jeanna? I only saw dorms at George Mason and at University of Cincinnati. The dorms at the University of Cincinnati was so so. I think the students had to sign in and out. They did renovate later. George Mason has new dorms and apartments now and a hotel on campus! The college has changed a lot since I graduated.

Dad went to a all male military college and he told me his dorm room had exposed pipes in ceiling. That's so ugly! My uncle went to Northwestern and he too had exposed pipes in the ceiling. But this was during the 1970s/1980s! I just never saw exposed pipes in a huge living area. Sure I can understand seeing exposed pipes in an unfinished basement of a house. But exposed pipes in a dorm that was built in 1930s for girls whose parents are very wealthy??

It's a foreign campus of one of the SUNY schools so you can rest assured you'll never have to experience it unless you have terrible luck, decide to go on an exchange programme, and wind up in my university. But the odds are not in favour of that, so you're safe.

Spent a week in the dorms at my university, then went and got a shared apartment am much more comfortable here but still miss the privacy of home. Lucky for me my time in the dorms was in summer but it was still hard.

I hate my dorm at college. It was built sometime in the late sixties or early seventies and is pretty disgusting. The rooms aer like cell blocks and the building smells like feet. Even though the floors are single-sex, there are always guys on my floor and this is awkward since we have a community bathroom and showers (I used to just take my clothes to the shower with me and get dressed in there until people started making fun of me). I want a single-person room, but the school makes it really hard to get one, even harder if you want one on a quiet floor. My roommate and I are completely incompatible. People blast their awful music all night and the Resident Assistans don't even try to enforce the rules about quiet hours, alcohol (most of them are actually buying drugs off the students they're supposed to be making sure are following the rules). I go to a public school so things might be different when I transfer to a private college. The only reason I live on campus here is that I live too far away to commute.