College Housing
The next most important step after you’ve been accepted by a college and have secured your finances, through financial aid, grants, student loans or your trust fund is to find a perfect roommate and place to stay. If you decide to live on campus, you’ll probably have to fill the infamous housing questionnaires. This is where you answer a swath of questions ranging from your choice of music to your religious views and food preferences. Even though the questionnaire is very detailed, most colleges are only capable of matching your basic needs: do you smoke, are you willing to live with one?, do you want to share a room or not. This is a very important decision as the perfect roommate can make or break freshman year; so its important to make the most of the options available to you.
Most colleges have different housing facilities available based upon your needs. Some of these choices may be single-sex dorms, co-ed dorms, honors dorms, quiet dorms, all-freshman dorms, graduate dorms, etc. Most freshman prefer living in an all-freshman dorm for the simple reason that most people on the dorm floor are pretty close to your age group and are craving the same college experience. You’ll find people “chilling” in the common areas, gossiping, working on homework, and trading life stories with their new friends. The benefit of an upperclassman dorm is that you’ll probably get more information on professors, classes and the college in general. They also may tend to be a little more aloof due to old friendships, commitments and generally more schoolwork.
The next order of business is to choose whether you would like to have roommates or not; and if so how many? You can always choose the privacy of a single room, but the costs involved in that could be prohibitive. If you have student loans you might have to consider the cost more closely than those who have grants or parents or other sources of funding. The twin sharing room is the most commonly available and economically viable choice. In most colleges today twin rooms are big enough to give both people enough living as well as working space. Some roommates get creative and set up bunk-beds to create more “living” space in their rooms! Another popular choice is the Quad; where four or more students share a larger living space. This living arrangement is sometimes only available in fraternity or sorority houses, but there are some colleges that do offer quads. These are fabulous for meeting new people and bonding. And you also have a one in three chance of finding someone you can connect with and not be stuck with a roommate you can't get along with.
With admission, finances (including grants, financial aid and student loans) and your roommate situation taken care of, the next order of business would be course selection and academic advising.
About the Author: Kara Lilly, a Librarian for over 15 years in College Park, creates the Eduology for schoolwork.org, a leading provider of homework help, college directories with satellite maps and a comprehensive breakdown of student loans. For more information, please visit http://www.schoolwork.org
Most colleges have different housing facilities available based upon your needs. Some of these choices may be single-sex dorms, co-ed dorms, honors dorms, quiet dorms, all-freshman dorms, graduate dorms, etc. Most freshman prefer living in an all-freshman dorm for the simple reason that most people on the dorm floor are pretty close to your age group and are craving the same college experience. You’ll find people “chilling” in the common areas, gossiping, working on homework, and trading life stories with their new friends. The benefit of an upperclassman dorm is that you’ll probably get more information on professors, classes and the college in general. They also may tend to be a little more aloof due to old friendships, commitments and generally more schoolwork.
The next order of business is to choose whether you would like to have roommates or not; and if so how many? You can always choose the privacy of a single room, but the costs involved in that could be prohibitive. If you have student loans you might have to consider the cost more closely than those who have grants or parents or other sources of funding. The twin sharing room is the most commonly available and economically viable choice. In most colleges today twin rooms are big enough to give both people enough living as well as working space. Some roommates get creative and set up bunk-beds to create more “living” space in their rooms! Another popular choice is the Quad; where four or more students share a larger living space. This living arrangement is sometimes only available in fraternity or sorority houses, but there are some colleges that do offer quads. These are fabulous for meeting new people and bonding. And you also have a one in three chance of finding someone you can connect with and not be stuck with a roommate you can't get along with.
With admission, finances (including grants, financial aid and student loans) and your roommate situation taken care of, the next order of business would be course selection and academic advising.
About the Author: Kara Lilly, a Librarian for over 15 years in College Park, creates the Eduology for schoolwork.org, a leading provider of homework help, college directories with satellite maps and a comprehensive breakdown of student loans. For more information, please visit http://www.schoolwork.org
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