re: What was your experience leaving home and staying in a college dorm?

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Kirby smith before they tore it down.

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I stayed in KS too. Believe it or not, I lived there before they tore it down too. Moved to Tiger Plaza after the 1st year.


To the OP, my sons about to ship off to Air Force BMT. That's seems like it'll be real home sick. Gone pretty much for 4 years and not much visiting time.

It was weird af but I was mostly so excited with the change and independence that it didn’t matter.
Had some issues with first roommate going crazy, a HS friend who pledged and went off the deep end coming in bombed at 3-4 am every night, but after he flunked out and a cool friend I’d met moved in that was great.

Some other issues when I think about it but my overall takeaway now is positive.

I didn't do so well academically.
—This. My first semester I had a new girlfriend and spent more time with her than in class or studying. My college algebra grades hit rock bottom.

my sons about to ship off to Air Force BMT. That's seems like it'll be real home sick. Gone pretty much for 4 years and not much visiting time.
—It’s very different now with Signal or other such apps. Free call & video.

It was so fricking freeing... just still remember the thrill of turning off my street, car loaded down heading to Herget.

Only adjustment was getting sick of dining hall food and the dining hall in general

I had friends who within weeks were going home on the weekends and I didnt understand it at all

Never stayed in a dorm. Had my own apartment

Lots of drinking and sex. When sex wasn’t available lots of fapping

Kirby Smith was a shite hole - so it wasn’t awesome. I spent as little time in there as possible. Pentagon dining unit or the “shitagon” gave me stomach issues - their motto “eat a lot, shite it out”

Nobody here had as much sex as they’re claiming

I was homeschooled from grades 5-12. I lived in the LSU Honors School Dorm my Freshman year.

This all makes me sound REALLY nerdy. I promise, I wasn't. an LSU athlete, relatively smart & social. *sarcasm*

I loved living in dorms for my first 1.5 years. I became an RA in the Horseshoe. My mantra was "Just don't cause trouble and I don't care".

There were always people awake to talk to, even when you had a DA graveyard shift from 3am-7am (missed a final because of that was given a reprieve from a well-loved Mass-Comm professor after running around an empty campus, to try and apologize).