The Historical Saying Goes
Dahle 1 Ryann Dahle
Ms. Aderhold
Comp I
30 October 2014
The Purpose of the True “College Experience.”
The historical saying goes, “Home is the treasure chest of living,” but does this hold true? Is it more valuable to live at home or in a dorm? Can maturity and independence be met from both? Obviously, living at home has several benefits and securities, but there also comes a time when dorm experiences are necessary for different reasons. In college, living in a dorm is the most efficient way to teach students various life skills that the securities and comforts of a home cannot.
Life instigates at home and provides the basic learning for one to grow, but a dorm life offers the chance for students to mature. Living in a dorm instills them to be independent and capable of living away from the comforts and protections at home. Since moving into dorms means evading the home of parents, it would allow students to look after themselves and survive on their own. For instance, students living on their own will learn to perform tasks such as laundry, preparing food, and money management. Therefore, moving away from parents allow students to endure, sustain, and survive in society. Also, this will prepare them for other future changes in their lives.
Although home teaches social skills and morals, the dorm atmosphere improves these skills and values. Growing up as toddlers and adolescents, they learn the basic social norms and
Dahle 2 values of their society. However, as they continue to grow up into young adults, college students need to have more social exchanges and interactions with different people and cultures. Fortunately, living in a dorm can do just that. This will allow college students an advantage for their progressing social skills and abilities. As home offers several life lessons and gets students ready for the “real world,” life in the college dorm is actually the “real world” that starts the process of the values already learned at
Ms. Aderhold
Comp I
30 October 2014
The Purpose of the True “College Experience.”
The historical saying goes, “Home is the treasure chest of living,” but does this hold true? Is it more valuable to live at home or in a dorm? Can maturity and independence be met from both? Obviously, living at home has several benefits and securities, but there also comes a time when dorm experiences are necessary for different reasons. In college, living in a dorm is the most efficient way to teach students various life skills that the securities and comforts of a home cannot.
Life instigates at home and provides the basic learning for one to grow, but a dorm life offers the chance for students to mature. Living in a dorm instills them to be independent and capable of living away from the comforts and protections at home. Since moving into dorms means evading the home of parents, it would allow students to look after themselves and survive on their own. For instance, students living on their own will learn to perform tasks such as laundry, preparing food, and money management. Therefore, moving away from parents allow students to endure, sustain, and survive in society. Also, this will prepare them for other future changes in their lives.
Although home teaches social skills and morals, the dorm atmosphere improves these skills and values. Growing up as toddlers and adolescents, they learn the basic social norms and
Dahle 2 values of their society. However, as they continue to grow up into young adults, college students need to have more social exchanges and interactions with different people and cultures. Fortunately, living in a dorm can do just that. This will allow college students an advantage for their progressing social skills and abilities. As home offers several life lessons and gets students ready for the “real world,” life in the college dorm is actually the “real world” that starts the process of the values already learned at