re: I know I'm young...but how did college social stuff work before cell phones?

I doubt dorms now even have landlines. Mine did, but this was after cell phones were ubiquitous but before smart phones existed (and people didn't text all that much). I remember the land line actually rang a few times and me and my roommate just looked at each other thinking "WTF...should we answer it?" It usually ended up being an Army/Navy recruiter or something.