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Who chooses to live in a 'glorified student dorm'?
Main Post: Who chooses to live in a 'glorified student dorm'?
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I briefly dated a girl who lives here, I went to see it a few times. One of the most bizarre places I've been to in London.
Endless corridors, all of them a deep Navy grey and a pretty eerie silence around the entire place. It's 10 floors and each floor has a theme. For example, she showed me the 'Japanese garden' themed floor that had a series of break out communal rooms that was all bamboo, massage tables, stone saunas and the like. Then we went to the games floor where a bunch of people were drinking endless cans of cheap beer, playing giant jenga and just shouting at each other.
Then she got onto the social side of things which was incredibly 'big brother'. Everyone was fucking everyone which caused endless drama, huge fights and fallouts. It was trible to the point where people were ostracised simply for leaving the building to go out with friends from work. Afterall, as several of them told me, it has a gym, a bar, a supermarket... Why would you ever want to leave...
Met a woman in her fifties who had recently got divorced and decided she wanted to live with a bunch of twenty somethings to relive her youth, met three of the fellas she was sleeping with, met a load of people earning around £1,400 a month and spending £1,000 of that on rent there meaning they just stayed in the communal areas every night drinking because they couldn't afford anything else.
Just found the whole place deeply depressing and very unsettling. Everyone was so desperate to prove that they were the life of the party but you just knew they cried themselves to sleep every night.
If you get the chance, go and check it out. Just don't stay too long.
Why is it necessary to live in a dorm freshman year?
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I understand it might be because the university doesn't want you dealing with apartment finding and/or getting into contracts you don't want to, and they like to make money I guess, but is there any legitimate reason why it should be absolutely mandatory?
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To stem the tide of posts here along the lines of "I'm a junior/senior and never got a chance to socialize and make friends."
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Which dorm do freshman generally live in?
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Are there specific dorms that freshman tend to live in freshman year? Was accepted last month for Fall 2025 and want to register for housing as soon as it opens, assume you don't pick dorms that soon, but just want an idea of what dorms are best for freshman? Visited campus earlier this month and everything seemed walkable. Thank you!
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Every single one
help a freshman out- which dorm should i live in???
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i was just accepted into iu as a voice major at jacobs and i have no idea which dorm i should pick. when i went to campus, the current music students said to live in either read or forest since those are closest to the classes ill be taking (read would probably be most convenient since it's right across the street and there's practice rooms in the dorms). however, im concerned about feeling too socially isolated in read, as ive heard its like 60% music majors. i want to have a social life and go to parties as well, and ive heard the northwest dorms are the best for that, but i also don't want to hike 20 minutes across campus from my dorm to my classes for that. forest ive heard mostly good things about- theres a good dining hall in there, its quiet, and theres an honors residential community there (i also got into the honors college). however, i heard theres not alot of social life. i know my situation is very niche but could anyone give me any advice? thank you!!
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You can search this question in this sub and find no less than 20 instances of people asking the exact same thing. Many within the last 2 days.
How much freedom do you have at college if you live in a dorm?
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I'm heading off to college this fall, and one of the things that I'm looking forward to the most is the freedom people have said comes with college. However, I've also heard people saying that if you live in a dorm (like I will), you don't really have much more freedom than you do in high school. Is this true? For context, I live about 8 miles from my current school district and can't drive, and the college I'm going to is a campus in a city with about 50,000 students. If there's anything more that should be considered when finding out how much freedom I have, I'll comment or edit this post accordingly.
Edit: No, I'm not concerned with how easy it will be to drink/smoke pot. I was mainly wondering how much freedom I'd have in terms of being able to choose what else I could do, where I could go and when, etc. .
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You’ll have an immense amount of freedom because you’re responsible for yourself now. Dorms have rules just like your home life, however most students end up finding ways to push or even break some guidelines regarding alcohol.
Just don’t be stupid and you’ll be good.
Should I live on campus?
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I’m an incoming first year student, do you guys recommend I live on campus or off campus?
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You’ll never get to experience something like it so yeah . You can always live with your parents but same can’t be said for dorming