I agree that there is a lot of peer pressure in college from your peers and other influences. If one of your peers are going to a party or out to a night club most likely you will be asked to go. In high school it was harder to go out to a party or to a night club because you lived at home with your parents or guardians. If you decide to move out in the beginning
One thing students lose when they decide to dorm is privacy. They have to share a bedroom, bathroom, and living space with other students. Some students have no experience sharing a room with another human being, and the transition can be frustrating at times. Studying is difficult
Melanie states that “college isn’t so much an academic life , but it’s also a very social and emotional part of who you are , too.” She explains that college isn't about only education but also is socializing with others and knowing yourself. College students also have the rights to socialize with people and
Hence, students must learn to properly nourish their bodies with a nutritional diet, enough sleep, and limited intake of alcohol or dugs. Next, students must feel both safe in regards to financial and personal security. Financially security is often what both dormers and commuters alike struggle with, and often take on 20+ hours of work (a damaging effect on school work), or have no gaurantee of being able to afford to come back to school the next year. Also, students learn in college and enjoy their time there if they feel safe enough to explore the campus and walk at night, or use the bus. Hence a low crime rate should be necessary. Thirdly, belonging means students feel they have close friends and family to talk to and be accepted by both at home and on campus. In this sense, it is easier for dormers to find friends on campus, but get more distances with those back at home, while the opposite is true for commuters. However, if both make an effort to get involved in groups of their interest on campus, and keep in touch with family and friends back home, they can overcome these struggles, although it may be difficult at first due to the big campus size and busy schedules. Once the basic needs are met so far, students must feel a sense of self-worth and achievement. They need to
Another kind of roommates is conservative roommates. They are so careful about their relations with other people and students. Especially they care how to behave with their roommates. Roommates who include in this category are conservative and much cautious in terms of how to get relation and how his or her other roommates should behave with them. In our room I may go to this category of roommates. I am not that good a joker and get serious soon that is why my roommates don’t joke much with me. Once my roommate
Lastly, I feel that it is very important to plan floor activities that provide students on the floor with opportunities to get to know each other. Through these activities and new found relationships, I feel that it will help the residents to be more respectful, social, and cordial with one another. Bonding opportunities create more of a ‘family-feel’ within the resident’s hall, making the dorm experience one that everyone will enjoy.
As an only child, I adore personal space. I grew up never sharing a bedroom or bathroom, never fought with anyone over the remote control nor shotgun in the car. When I received my roommate assignment, I will admit that I cringed. Stuck in a triple, I imagined a dark, cramped room with all three of us living on top of each other. When I arrived at school, the room did not match my nightmares and I thought all was well. The first two nights of school, I slept alone in the room, as one roommate stayed at a hotel with her parents and the other had a horse show out of town. The mini-fridge is right across from my bed and the electronic glow of the clock ruined my
For example, you usually need a TV, microwave, refrigerator, and a couple fans if your dorm does not have air conditioning. You can save a little bit of money because you can split the necessities between three people, unlike the usual two people. This is nice in regards to all the money you are having to pay for tuition, any money that can be saved is important to the students and the parents. It is also nice to have three people in a room because if you ever forget something at home that you need, there is a bigger chance that at least one of your roommates is going to have the item. It is kind of like when people say “sharing is caring” with two roommates there is more to share, which is nice if you are all the same size because then you can borrow clothes as well! Madison Muscari states that “there is not enough closet space in a triple…” but, if you decide you want to share with your roommates there is no reason that you cannot all fit your clothes into the two closets
In addition, they also suggest that the environment that college provides creates a much more alcohol friendly space. In order to create new friend groups, students may partake in social gatherings where alcohol is available. These new friend groups may rely only on drinking and partying to stay together and can lead to excessive drinking in student.
The dorms isn’t what I expected when I came here, but I lived and went with it. We learn to be responsible, disciplined, want to keep the place clean, and don’t want trouble. There is always activities after school or on the weekend. I say go out there and have the out of dorm experience, try and not to be a dormrat. My favorite activities are swimming, paintball, and
In college, your friend becomes your support group and later own your second family. I would have inspirational quotes around the floor about choosing wisely, and how to be a good friend. To promote roommate unity, I would have a scavenger hunt in which the residents pair with their roommates, and explore the entire campus together checking off checkpoints along the way; which would build trust and hopefully a sense of team and connectivity. At the end of the scavenger hunt, the whole floor would be able to have a picnic behind the bell tower. Throughout the semester I would promote roommate unity with late night study runs, trust workshops, and, communication
A dormitory may consists of two to three other individuals in a room whereas if a person works, attends college lectures, or even a college football games they would have communicated with more than three people apart from their roommates in daily life. For example, students might need to talk to each of their professor (who are all different ) regarding class work or course materials, converse with other students while preparing a group presentation, or debate with students during a class discussion who all have opposing viewpoints on certain subject.
Either the team will bond and grow stronger as one unit or will crumble and fall from the stress and tension that goes on from spending too much time together. For most college players, their main friends are the girls or guys they hang out with on a daily basis. With athletes, their friends would be a teammate, and when tension builds on a team these friendships begin to take a toll as well. Not having somebody there to talk to can cause a series of problems with both personal wellbeing and getting along with the rest of the team. Housing for college students should be split up between teammates and people that are not on the team. These “outsiders” help provide a buffer between teammates and gives them time away from the people they spend so much time with. When you mix in outsiders, the team ends up making more friends and not spending so much time with the same people every
Any conflict we have had in our relationship we deal with head on and confront the person about any problems or difficulties. In another aspect I have noticed a slight frustration arising in our new living situation. The few frustrations that have arose were little messes in the kitchen. With Abigails and I’s communication being so open I have had no problem showing her my frustration to for a
Living in the college dorms will allow students many beneficial social interactions that they would otherwise not have. College dorms are usually divided into floors. Each floor will have a Resident Assistant that reports to a Resident Director. The Resident Assistant will organize events for the floor so that the students living together can get to know each other. This is a great opportunity for the students to meet and find others that have similar interests or majors. Throughout the semester there will be floor meetings and activities that will help the students meet new people and make more friends. Generally students will have at least one roommate. This can be someone you know or it could be randomly assigned. This is a great opportunity to make a good friend when you first move to college.