Dorm Life - "A Fresh Start"

Moving into another dorm this semester, was an amazing experience, and not even because of the fact that I got away from all the problems I had last semester. While the dorm itself isn't as nice as the one I was in before, that says nothing about the people living in it themselves. Here there is an environment like no other; the boys all go out to the gym and dinner together, and everyone is extremely social. Sure there is a fair share of partiers here, but you will find that anywhere when you have a bunch of teens living together in one place. There's never a dull moment here, and there is always someone popping into your room to say hello or to have a long conversation. We will see how things pan out as the year goes on, but these people seem amazing to live with, and extremely easy to get along with.

I can honestly not say that I miss being in my old room, though I loved having all that space in the common room of our suite to have people over. It is a nice change to have roommates that want you to go out with them, and will not take no for an answer. We had so much fun last night at a school event, which the last time I was at with my old roommate was so boring that I left to go back to my room twenty minutes. There are so many times that I wished I could have had a fun conversation with my old roommate, and last night there were so many fun and funny moments in conversations that my sides were hurting today when I woke up.

To all the commuters out there, you are missing out on a really beautiful thing, once you get over the drinkers and the partiers, the people you spend time living with are really amazing in a dorm. You just have to get it right when you room with someone in a small space and be as easygoing as you can be. Once you stop caring so much about how stupid the people around you decide to be and start to focus more on not being stupid yourself, everything turns out alright.

Moral of the story: Everyone should try to spend a year on campus taking in the valuable experience of living with a bunch of other people that you may, or may not, like at the beginning, middle, or end of the year.