Catheryn Small: Commute. The vast majority of people move out of dorms after their freshman year anyway. The only thing you'll be missing out on is a bunch of teenagers asking you to buy them alcohol all the time. I transferred to an out of state school my when I was 23 and lived in a dorm my first year because I didn't know anyone. Even though I lived in an upper class dorm, I still had no interest whatsoever in what was going on. The only good thing about living on campus is the convenience. I could get to class in 10-15 minutes and if I had a long break in between classes I could make it back to my room and relax instead of having to find a place to hang around. But then, once classes kick in, I preferred to just go to the library or find somewhere to study in between classes anyway.If you want to be near the action and get more of the "college experience" think about getting an apartment near campus. A lot of schools have complexes or neighborhoods that are predominat! ely student populated or even reserved for students. It's MUCH cheaper than living in dorms while still giving you a little taste of campus life....Show more
Jannette Kotz: At this point in your life, the only thing you would be missing out on would be rules, curfews, guest limitations, dealing with your 18 year old roommate's boyfriend, and being begged on a regular basis to buy alcohol for underaged kids. Some dorms don't allow alcohol even if you're over 21 or they restrict it. Dorm living is one of those things that is great in concept, but part of that is the experience of being on your own for the first time and having a taste of adult freedom with your peers for the first time. That ship has happily sailed for you. Also, dollar for dollar, it's more expenseive to live on campus than in an apartment with a roommate for most markets. Live at home. If you're lucky, your parents will let you live rent-free or inexpensively while you're in school. Don't let y! our friends peer pressure you. They probably are just looking! for a way to get invited to dorm parties:)...Show more
Felicitas Phildor: If you want the full college experience, then you should live on campus. If you don't care much about that, then commute, but I think you should live on campus. It's cheaper to live on campus and you won't have to live with your parents. When there's events and stuff on campus, you don't have to find a way there. You'll already be on campus. BIG plus! Good luck!
Ignacio Imbier: You would hate the dorms. Save your money.
Veta Slicker: I am going to receive a high level of thumbs down. But I think college is more than your credentialing. It is that building of a community in an academic environment and for that it is essential you leave your home. You are 22 not in your 30's like me...so you will find a community on a campus setting. Older student at my undergraduate often received nicer apartment not Frosh like dorms with beer pong and panty raids. Move to the campus. --At your ag! e parents have a way of reminding you of a younger self. Some people retrograde in the presence of their parents because you tend to take on old familiar roles. You are mature, life on your own-ish is owed to you. The more space you can put between you and the adolescent home--the more enriched the experience will be. If not on the dorm...share a place near campus with friends....Show more
Patrica Loertscher: Living in the dorms can give you access to all kinds of campus resources. If you plan to be in the library until it closes every night, it's nice to not have far to go before you're home. It makes it easier to join clubs that meet in the evenings. But most of "the whole college experience," as defined by people who think living in the dorms as a freshman is part of it, does appear to involve people who suddenly have more freedom than they have ever had before and can't always be counted on to use it wisely.If I were you, I'd live at my parents' because it's ! cheaper. Anything that happens in the dorms that you decide you really! want to experience, you will be able to experience in your second, third, or fourth year -- so there's no reason to think you need to move into the dorms right now just in case there's something there that you might like.I'd explain it to your friends the way you explained it to us: there's a big difference between being a 22-year-old who just moved *back* in with his parents because of unemployment and being an 18-year-old who has never lived anywhere *except* with his parents. The wonderful memories your friends have of living on campus when they were freshmen are wonderful in part because they involved a first taste of freedom, but freedom isn't as new and exciting to you now as it probably was when you were 18. It's just too late for you to appreciate "the whole college experience."...Show more
Mozell Sponsler: It sounds like you're a lot more mature and wise than your friends. So what if you miss out on dorm life. Dorms are training-wheels for kids to get ! their first significant experience living independently. You already have that experience, and with the economic environment, it sounds like you know that the real world is a lot less about partying but about working, saving, and making plans to improve your future. That's why most adult reentry students have higher GPAs and are better students than the teenagers fresh out of high school. You're lucky that you have parents that will allow you to save a tremendous amount of money by commuting to school. Sure, you're missing out on dorms. Adults can live with that decision without much of a second thought. We all have to miss out on some things to do other things. You are also missing out on spending more time in your trade to make more money in the next several years - and that's a good decision if you use the school to improve your career, like perhaps by studying business, entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, business law, strategic planning, computer business s! oftware, and other topics that might let you build your own business as! a contractor, if that's the path you choose. Sometimes you just need to focus on the path you think is best, even if that means other paths are closed off to you, since you need to make the decision at the fork on the road as you come to it. If you want a way to confirm your choice, just look at the price of dorms. They are usually tremendously expensive, have little or no privacy, and sometimes have addition restrictions like mandatory meal plans. See if the campus has an adult-reentry office, as they often have special study areas and events for adults....Show more
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