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Written by Ken Bauer
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A guide to help you understand living in a dorm room.
Dorm rooms are not a bad idea if you
are moving far away from home and do not know a lot of people around
the community yet. As a matter of fact, dorms are probably the best and
safest place to start when moving away to college. However, the
incredible loss of privacy can take new freshmen by surprise and
totally freak them out. Even those that have 12 brothers and sisters or
that may have already lived away from their parents will probably be
taken back by the experience of sharing their bathroom with a hundred
other students.
Many colleges have policies requiring that first year students live on
campus unless they have family living within a close proximity. This
policy usually settles the decision making process for many first year
students. While this policy decides that you must live on campus it
(usually) allows you some means of providing input that is compared in
some type of matchmaking process to find a suitable roommate. Usually
found somewhere in the “applying for university housing” process is one
or more “matchmaking” forms that can be compared so as to try and pair
you with someone compatible. Make sure to fill these out completely and
as thoroughly as possible. Make sure to fill them out truthfully. Do
not fill them out as you think someone like a parent or other wants you
to.
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