Doane Residential Life

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

Since this is my second college camp I have visited, I already know a lot about college life. Going to Union made me like it even more. Having a dorm like experience is so fun and becoming friends with everyone in it just makes the atmosphere so much better. I didn’t particularly enjoy having similar food every single food but you are going to find that any college so there isn’t much to do. In addition having only a couple classes a day and time in between each one to go chill out in the garden or back at the house is

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.

If you serve in the military, you know that moving is a regular event that can be stressful. Relocating to a new area doesn’t have to be taxing for you and your family. Here are some helpful Ft. Bliss housing resources for military family families relocating to El Paso.

To my surprise, I have loved the contrasting experience so far. It’s nice to see familiar faces all around campus, no matter what day of the week or time of the day. It’s comforting to recognize every staff member and know that they recognize me as well. The small campus is quick easy to maneuver and, therefore, saves me

but the place where my family is, in the Central Valley of California” (pg.139). A home is somewhere a person matures or is growing up. Didion describes home as "... sense of her cousins, and of rivers, and of her great grandmother’s teacups” (pg. 141). Home is the place you love and cherish not somewhere one has lived or lives. Most of Didion's love comes from the memories the home has gave her particularly ones from her childhood. “I was almost thirty years old before I could talk to my family without crying after I hung up” (pg.140). This is just one of many quotes Didion gives explaining how by her leaving her home she was abandoning her child hood memories. Forgetting where one comes from is betraying one’s family.

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

Dr. Tom Roberts (DKE Pledge Class of 1962), MD, came to Chapel Hill from St. Paul’s School fifty four years ago. He was a native of Greenville, S.C.

College is a life changing experience for students. College is a new environment for most students and comes with lots of challenges. Things such as the increased difficulty of academic work and not being around the same social groups as a student was before college can make the transition very difficult. One of the best things a student can do to help with this transition is to live in a campus residence hall. Students should live in dorms because of the community that this creates. Students will gain many beneficial social interactions, will be able to better complete academic work, and will ease the adjustment to college life.

Since fellow students always surround you, it's a lot easier to make friends and develop lasting relationships. Even if you don't have a roommate, you're sure to meet students who live in your dorm hall. Dorming at school is a great experience that you will never forget. For the rest of your life you can speak of your time where you were a teenager that moved away from home to try something new. The people you meet and the times you will share with them will be with you forever.

It’s no surprise that Los Angeles is one of the largest populated areas in the United States, representing over 25% of California’s residents living within a 4,057 square mile radius. The main distinction for the City of the Angles is its culture with over 200 different languages spoken daily.

This research project explored the quality of life of Sumner House residents utilizing the capability approach and addressed these questions: what opportunities residents have to live a life they truly value and how they perceive their quality of life at Sumner House. Based on six individual interviews, this study identified a number of key capabilities for quality of life perceived by Sumner House residents including being healthy, receiving a high quality of care, being safe, being independent and autonomous, having a social life, and conducting meaningful activities. The research findings suggested that Sumner House provides residents with a range of opportunities to achieve lives they have reason to value, especially capabilities for control over life and occupation. Overall, interviewees expressed positive comments about their quality of life.

Before developing residential facilities, there are components that need to be addressed. The population that four specific programs across the country has been serving is mainly female minor victims of human trafficking, including Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) Safe House, Angela’s House, Girls Educational and Mentoring Service (GEMS) Transition to Independent Living (TIL), and Children of the Night (Clawson and Goldblatt 2006). “In terms of size, the current programs range from 6 beds to 24 beds” (Clawson and Goldblatt 2006:3). The size of the population wasn’t focused on a lot, as long as these programs tried to have two girls per room. “The age of the residents at current facilities for this population ranged from as young

Living in a residential community seems pretty similar to living in a dorm in college, which was not a problem for me. Pros are being able to meet new people and having a stronger sense of independence. Also, because you’re surrounded by other DIS students, everyone is in a similar situation and is probably experiencing the same concerns; it would be nice to have other students to talk with about similar struggles or triumphs. The biggest cons would probably be feeling like you have no time to yourself as well as possibly not interacting enough with Danish locals.

As a current member of the relatively small Women in Science and Engineering residential community at the University of Michigan, I can say from experience that one of the most valuable benefits of this living style is the automatic companionship that it affords. Simply living in this certain space affords every individual an automatic membership in a group, and this shared membership fosters a sense of community. It’s a basis for relationships - even if one member has relatively little in common with another, the fact that both people live in the same community creates an opportunity to connect that would likely not exist in the absence of that shared membership.