My cousin wants to know how hard dormitory life is. He's never lived in a dorm before. What do I tell him?

Answer 1

I have a friend that said it was awful!

Answer 2

Well it depends on where he's going for college.
I go to a private Christian school. So the guys and girls live in seperate dorms. Also, the opposite sex can't be in the dorm room after a certain time.
My friend that goes to a public university lives in a unisex dorm room, so she says it can get a bit crazy.

Dorm rooms are usually real small, and the walls are soo thin, you can hear almost everything. Plus, sharing the bathrooms and showers aren't very fun either.

Dormitory life isn't so hard if you just follow the rules. Living in a dorm was real fun for me. Dorms are all part of your college experience, if you have to have a positive outlook on things, you'll be okay and you'll actually enjoy college.

Answer 3

Dorm life is what you make it. No matter the rules and regulations, the experience will be about learning to coexist in intimate spaces with others.

If he has a roommate he's going to have to learn to be considerate of other people on a level most peoplearent used to unless they have lots of siblings. They'll have to negotiate the rules of the room down to the smalllest detail. For example, is it to have a clean room or messy room? Share food or not? Girls in room or not? Loud music or study? Things like that...

Most dorms that I am aware of have roommate contracts roommates fill out on the first day to encourage you to talk about those kind of elementary issues to easy potential problems.

The dorm experience is also about throwing people of different backgrounds together for practice. For the rest of life, if you go anywhere other than a small town, people are going are all going to possess different values and ideas along with their racial and spiritual differences, so the dorms is your practice on figuring out how to deal with the new challenging of coexisting in situations that are not always familiar of comfortable for you.

*** It's all about getting to learn to be responsible for your self and learning to communicate your wants, ideas, and frustrations respectfully. Just remember that everything in the dorm is community shared property so you can't mistreat it (including other people) as if it were your own ***

If things get tough there is usually always an Resident Assistant who is like the floor counselor who is there to talk to if you get stressed out or need guidance. They also provide fun programming for everyone to bond over. And for the most part everyone I know has appreciated having lived in the dorms and learning from the experience.

Answer 4

Dorms are just like living in a small town or village. Everyone knows you and all your business and the walls are so thin they know if you snore-whore-and score. They will know you better than your mama does.

Answer 5

Dorm life can be tough.. but it can be good it all depends on how you well you can do with close living quarters!