Where should I live?

Just take the dorm room for the first year. You might not like it but it will defiantly be an experience worth having.

If you hate dorms, then don’t live in them. I think you know what you want to do already and it sounds like you would enjoy an apt more. Plus, you can still party in apartments.

definitely the dorm first year you’ll regret it later if u don’t

Get the apartment, that way you can decorate the room however you want, do whatever you want, and won’t need air fresheners in every outlet. Don’t get the dorm, I hated when I went on a church camp to a college and we stayed in dorms, my roomate smelled like that nasty molasses stuff. Yuuuck!

you will definitely meet more people and have a lot of fun in the dorms, depending on where you go to college. you will only be an hour away soif you do hate it you can go home and see your puppy.
also try and see which one will be more financially better for you. Also you might meet friends who also would like to get an apartment the second year and bam you have roomates!

The dorm experience.

Get wasted and have sex.

With your own place you can do the first without R.A. breathing down your neck. And you can do the second without your roommate hearing about it. And you don’t have to hear them doing it either.

Get your own place if you can. If you can’t make friends around school I doubt you will be able to make them in a dorm. And at least people won’t urinate on you if they don’t like you if you have your own place.

in the moment.

@zaid-My mom would love you for that

Definately the dorm. You’ll have the rest of your life to live alone. Have fun, meet new people!

I would totally agree with people who recommend dorm. Dorm experience is something you can’t buy with money. You would have plenty of chances to live in an apartment but for dorms, you only have 4 years or so to experience in your entire life. I would choose dorm for at least a semester. Don’t they offer a single rooms at all?

Dorm is not “college experience.” Your experience is. You’ll meet people in class, through work, through housemates and other friends. Dorms always seem to lack privacy and personal space.

I am not sure it has to be an either or situation. What about renting a share in a house with other students? That way you sort of get the benefits of both worlds.

I must had very different dorm expieriences than some of these people. (That’s why I moved out my sophomore year!!!) I remember spending most of one night riding up and down in the elevator trying to study becuase my roommate kicked me out so she could her boyfriend in. There were other dorm experiences that I would gladly have skipped to. Living in a dorm is not the be all and end all of the college experience.

If you ask me I would rather have my dog!

If you think you can handle it, convince your parents to buy a multi-bedroom house near the university. Plan on living there all four years and rent the rooms out to other students. At the end of the four years, your parents can put the house back on the market and get their money back, plus you might be able to get away with living rent free, depending on how much you charge your housemates.

@skgskgskg22 Many universities require that first year students or students under a certain age live in the dorm at least their first year, unless they live at home and commute.

Moral of the story: Don’t make too many plans until you know their policy on this.