Originally Posted by
BillyD
I lived in the dorms for one semester only. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. Living in the trenches off campus with your roommates created life long bonds, especially when you didn't come from money. Everybody struggled together.
We required both of our kids to live in a shared dorm room their freshman years as we thought it would be a good experience for them to have to share, etc. When we dropped off our daughter, she and her roommate (who were friends from earlier schooling) sat on their beds and cried because of the lack of space they were going to have to share. Seems the little princesses were just too spoiled before that. When my wife and I got in the car, we had a good laugh.