I have a decision to make...

[ckBejug]

Be a grown up and stay at home if you can! Moving out is the "teenage" thing to do. You are screwed either way whether you go to a dorm or an apartment so it doesn't really matter. You may have better luck studying and doing homework in an apartment than in a dorm but this is assuming you care about that little detail

In the end, it is all going to depend pretty much entirely on who your rommates are.

I disagree with you, for once, that it is such a 'teenage' thing to do. Had I lived at home the four years I was at university I would have had to kill so much time between classes that studying at the library wouldn't have been enough to cover, I would have gone stir crazy. I would have missed late night group study sessions that went until 3-4 in the morning. I wouldn't have made friends with the first roomate I ever had who remains one of my best friends (because our majors were so different we never would have met). I would have missed out on a group of us waking up at 5 in the morning to have breakfast with the professor who lived in our building and was always up at ridiculous hours to get ready for the workday (and who gave me a recommendation letter that was so brilliant I can never thank him enough for it). Heck, I probably never would have known the guy. I wouldn't have memories of going to study at the library and walking home at 2 in the morning with a buddy and meeting people I never would have known otherwise ('buddies' who worked for the university department of public serive and could be called upon to walk home with people who didn't want to make the late night trek all alone). I wouldn't have been able to stay up until the wee hours of the morning partying after finals with friends because I would have had to make a drive home and we all know how bad it is to drink and drive. I wouldn't have any of the other great great memories I have of college life and living at college because a big part of my college life was the fact that I got to live there and experience that. It wasn't a teenage rebellion thing that made me want to live at school, it was the awesome experience I knew my brother had that made me want to do the same and I can honestly say that even if part of my scholarship hadn't covered housing, I would have forked over the money without blinking and eye because it was that worth it.

[ArmoBarbi]

The roommate thing is important, I agree. The third roommate has not been found yet, and my cousin knows the first one. She is an only child like me and shops at EXPRESS like I do from what Im told, so we should get along just fine. lol

[Siamanto]

If I had to chosee between a dorm and an apartment that I would share, I would chose the latter.

[CatWoman]

So Barbi did you decide on your major? Are you gonna do law? I think I am.

[ArmoBarbi]

Law isnt a major though. I still have to choose major and minor before law school (if I do decide on it). What kind of law do you wanna do?

As of now, I have decided on major in Armenian Studies, and minors in French and Russian Language/Lit. I wanna do either Ethnology or Linguistic Anthropology as another major though. We will see...I can always pick it up later.

[CatWoman]

I don’t know yet, accounting majors are good for corporate law but I don’t know... I like family law and criminal defense as well… all I know is that the thought of doing accounting jobs for the rest of my life makes me depressed lol. I always LOVED and did so well in my political science, philosophy, and business law classes… but I don’t like finance or accounting as much. Oh and I can watch C-SPAN all day haha. So I figured I’ll do way better in law than accounting, no hold on, I actually like law.

[Inna]

I lived in an apartment my freshman year and now I am living in a dorm. I loved the apartment life..but had I not moved into the dorms then I would have regretted it. I've met a lot of close people in the dorms and around campus that I would have defiently not met in classes. Its even hard to meet people in classes when you are sitting in a 300 person lecture class. And having the library near by is always a good thing...especially for those late night studies. Anyways...even though living in an apartment is cheaper I still think you should live in a dorm for at least one year. And I actually had a hard time joining clubs when I lived in an apartment cause almost all the clubs would have their meetings after 7 ...and by that time I was back at the apartment and didnt feel like/nor was it safe for me to walk back to campus (I couldnt drive cause I dont have a car). It's all up to you. Whatever you're most comfortabel with.

[ckBejug]

Law isnt a major though. I still have to choose major and minor before law school (if I do decide on it). What kind of law do you wanna do?

As of now, I have decided on major in Armenian Studies, and minors in French and Russian Language/Lit. I wanna do either Ethnology or Linguistic Anthropology as another major though. We will see...I can always pick it up later.

What school are you going to that they actually offer Armenian Studies as a major?

[ArmoBarbi]

What school are you going to that they actually offer Armenian Studies as a major?

University of Michigan www.umich.edu (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - International Institute - Department of Near Eastern Studies)

[Baron Dants]

Well, I won't have to face either option in Montreal (any one of the universities I choose to go to are very close), but I don't see why everybody seems so anti-dorm.

If given the opportunity (which I might have if I spend a semester or year abroad), I would like to try out the whole dorm thing, for at least a short while.