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Jul 23 09 8:02 PM
If you are attending the same school as a high-school friend, it's OK to get into the same dorm, but DON'T ROOM TOGETHER. Trust me on this one. I have NEVER seen this work. As scary as it seems, you will be happier rooming with a stranger. If you have a friend the first few days, you miss out on making new friends. As someone above said, the 'social window' closes after the first week or two. You MUST make connections to other people in your dorm or you will really struggle. You'll make friends through classes (particularly at a small school where you have the same people in the same classes for four years) but at a larger school with 500 kids in your lecture class, you may struggle a bit. Don't go home until Thanksgiving. The kids that went home every weekend were the ones that didn't force themselves to make friends with others on campus and had few friends their entire college careers. Weekends are prime social time. If you miss the weekends, you miss a lot of fun and a lot of socializing. Go to parties even if you don't drink. Get together with floor-mates and go skating, mini-golfing, or to a movie. Go shopping with your RA. Just do something. Don't go home, and don't sit in your room with the door closed.
GasMenagerie wrote:Misinformation: informing FiSHes for 3 years now.
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