I am currently in my freshman year at college, and I have found the experience a very rewarding and exciting one. This year has been a year of "firsts" in my life. I have experienced my first call home to truly say "hi," my first all-night study session, and my first time on my own and in my own space. Since the first year is a changing experience, I was glad to live with about two hundred other people experiencing the same feelings I was because it made it so much easier to make the transition from our former high school lives to our new college lives together.
Dorm life is more of a community life than anything. There are events going on each week sponsored by different group, all in an effort to have each resident get to know all their fellow residents this makes a big difference when compared to students who commute. As I walk around campus with them, I find myself waving, greeting, and talking to a greater number of students then they do. And usually afterwards my commuter-friends say, "What, do you know everybody here?" Well, actually I know over half of the people in the residence halls because of all the events mentioned, and the sense of