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re: What was your experience leaving home and staying in a college dorm?
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:09 pm to rickyh
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:09 pm to rickyh
Was never homesick. Hated Power Hall so after 1 semester got an apartment at Embassy Apartments and didn’t move till I graduated.
This post was edited on 10/1/25 at 6:12 pm
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Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:20 pm to Tigerinasia
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Power Hall
I was in Power my freshman year. I moved to Tiger Plaza after that. Great times.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:26 pm to rickyh
Never lived in a dorm. Could stay in apartments as a freshman. Tigerland for 4 years. Great place to be in the 80s.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:29 pm to rickyh
Loved it. First night was at about 3 parties and drunk as hell by the end of the night with about 20 new friends. I did not know a soul when I showed up that day.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:29 pm to rickyh
Natural Light
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:32 pm to rickyh
I lived at home and commuted my first year. Same boring life and I didn’t like it.
I am thankful that an older guy from high school that I worked with talked me into moving onto campus my sophomore year. We had a damn great year. Met all kinds of new friends and I eventually moved into an apartment with a few of them.
I came out of my shell and grew up. Banging some strange didn’t hurt either. If you are going to college, you need to live on campus as a freshman to get the whole experience.
I am thankful that an older guy from high school that I worked with talked me into moving onto campus my sophomore year. We had a damn great year. Met all kinds of new friends and I eventually moved into an apartment with a few of them.
I came out of my shell and grew up. Banging some strange didn’t hurt either. If you are going to college, you need to live on campus as a freshman to get the whole experience.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:36 pm to rickyh
I did college later. Day after. I graduated HS I moved to Knoxville, got a job and an apartment. For the next five years had an absolute blast working and living in Johnson City, Nashville, Martinsville, VA then left that career to join the Navy. I’ve never in my life been homesick. Home was always wheee I was at the time. I always made sure to visit my parents because you never know how long they will be around.
This post was edited on 10/1/25 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:56 pm to rickyh
I struggled but not with homesickness. I didnt know how to handle the freedom.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:57 pm to S
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S
Natural Light
Loved it so much I ripped all the curtains out of my first apartment
Posted on 10/1/25 at 6:58 pm to rickyh
Man it sucked. Johnston hall no heat no ac. It was condemmed my freshman year and we were given the Kappa Sig house as a dorm. But this PISSED off the fratstars.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:10 pm to rickyh
Kirby smith before they tore it down.(Obviously) At times I missed my friends but some of them came to visit. Lived with one of my best friends, and our suite mates were really cool. I am still friends with suite mates to this day and try to meet them at the MET for SEC baseball tourney when possible. We still text and keep up with each other. It was definitely a shock coming from a super strict high school, but some of my best memories were made that year. We moved off campus after that first year.
This post was edited on 10/1/25 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:12 pm to rickyh
I didn't do so well academically.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:13 pm to rickyh
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Did anyone get homesick?
Never knew what the word meant. I joined a fraternity and had things to keep me occupied. A lot of those who didnt got lonely on the weekends because the college I went to was a suitcase school. Lots of locals hauling arse home on the weekends. I hated going home on weekends.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:14 pm to rickyh
Miller Hall at LSU had tiny rooms with thin walls, locks that didn’t work, and a community bathroom. I was too busy partying and studying to be homesick. I did, however, learn to appreciate all my parents did to give me a good home. I figured out after a semester that bedsheets don’t wash themselves.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:16 pm to wareaglepete
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Loved it. First night was at about 3 parties and drunk as hell by the end of the night with about 20 new friends. I did not know a soul when I showed up that day.
but did you get laid?
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:17 pm to rickyh
Loved it
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:30 pm to rickyh
P. A. R. T. Y. 24/7 - We didn't go to no college to learn no schooling!!
This ia a true story. Checked into the dorm on Sunday afternoon and by Sunday night was fighting/holding (with nunchucks) off the entire Theta Zis' frat on the 6th floor of the dorm in our underwear. My roommate & I had brought the President of the frat's drunken girlfriend and her friend back to our dorm room from the strip at USL. They didn't like that and heavy consumption of alcohol led to it getting out of hand.
Both my roommate and I had to go to the disciplinary dean, and he laughed and said we were the first ever to be on probation BEFORE we registered for college.
So yeah, it started like that .............and got worse. (or better depending on perspective)
2 years. 47 credits and 1.47 GPA before thansfering to UWF, Yes, I graduated after 5 years.
This ia a true story. Checked into the dorm on Sunday afternoon and by Sunday night was fighting/holding (with nunchucks) off the entire Theta Zis' frat on the 6th floor of the dorm in our underwear. My roommate & I had brought the President of the frat's drunken girlfriend and her friend back to our dorm room from the strip at USL. They didn't like that and heavy consumption of alcohol led to it getting out of hand.
Both my roommate and I had to go to the disciplinary dean, and he laughed and said we were the first ever to be on probation BEFORE we registered for college.
So yeah, it started like that .............and got worse. (or better depending on perspective)
2 years. 47 credits and 1.47 GPA before thansfering to UWF, Yes, I graduated after 5 years.
This post was edited on 10/1/25 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:31 pm to rickyh
I moved into an apartment with three other degenerates when I was 17. We were asked to leave after 3 months for getting the cops called on us too much. It was awesome. Sorry for partying.
Posted on 10/1/25 at 7:33 pm to dirtsandwich
quote:No, not really...it was the best time ever.
Sorry for partying.
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