Living on your own for the first time can present some challenges, and for many residents, living at Point Park is their first time being on their own. Two important things that on-campus residents should know is how to respect their roommate(s) and taking care of their wellbeing. Many students who live on campus have never had to share a room before until this point. Unless a resident is living in a single, dorm life can open a whole new world of possibilities, as well as a world of challenges. Sharing a common space is difficult; people have different sleep schedules, cleanliness preferences, and interests. Sometimes, even the best of friends can turn into enemies as the dorm life becomes too overwhelming and suffocating. What residents need
Point Loma Nazarene University is a private, Christian Institute that offers high education while developing students on their spiritual journeys. The university has an established community living agreement in which all incoming students must accept and abide by while furthering their education. Students who attend PLNU are expected to reflect pure, Christian values, which are guided by the Holy Spirit.
In 2013, Penn State saw a 1.6% increase in student enrollment. This year, Penn State’s University Park gained 46,184 new incoming students. Our research looks into the incoming freshmen class and the options they are given in order to choose a roommate.
The Office of Residential Life at Elizabethtown College welcomed a new member to its team at the start of the 2015-2016 academic year. Stephanie (Stepf) Collins is the new area coordinator and she oversees the Ober and Founders residence halls.
As a student of East Texas Baptist University living in centennial residence hall is difficult. I having to ask people to use their kitchen just to make a simple thing like waffles. I even want at least peace and quiet without my roommates being loud with visitors. Living in centennial or any of the other dorms is not the same as being able to live on your own where you have time to yourself. After my freshman year I was trying to live off campus because these dorms are really expensive. At East Texas Baptist University you have to be 21 to live off campus unless living with a parent. I believe that since you are able to do other things at the age of 18 you should be able to live off campus on your own.
I think Universities misrepresent the actual student body racial proportions on their advertising to sell the school and its environment. The idea being, indicating that regardless of once race or background, you will be comfortable and fit right in. A great case in point is the photoshopped image of Diallo Shabazz. According to NPR.org - A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure (http://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257765543/a-campus-more-colorful-than-reality-beware-that-college-brochure), The University of Wisconsin photoshopped the image of Diallo Shabazz in an admissions booklet. The photo was a shot of students at a football game – but Shabazz had never been to a football game. This shows the extent to which Universities are going to create a picture for their audience.
At St. Ambrose University, the housing is mainly two bedrooms sharing one bathroom, instead of a communal bathroom. Private universities are mainly about giving a safe and supportive community that each resident can feel comfortable enough in to thrive. On top of the great housing, there are resident hall activities like volunteering. There are also over fifty clubs and after class activities available at St. Ambrose. There are academic, cultural, recreational and even more types of clubs and class activities available. St. Ambrose does its best to provide a home, away from home.
55 Years on Campus was published on 17th of October, 2016 and tells us about the eventful life of the author-Detra Enman. The book is of 61 pages and belongs to the Non-Fiction genre. The author graduated from high school at the age of eighteen. She tells us that she had no idea about what to do in life, but decides to join the Air Force as an administrative orderly clerk because, she had scored good marks on the administrative test to get into the Air Force.
I have done this by having group bonding activities often as well as appearing warm and welcoming to all, especially those who do not appear at our activities in order to make them feel included at all times. If made a Resident Assistant, I plan to go further than this and try to encourage the residents to open their doors more often in order to appear more welcoming to each other. I will also keep working hard on inventive group bonding activities. I find that more work can always be done in order to create lasting bonds between residents. Most importantly, I have grown to understand that even though we refer to our residence halls as our dorm, or simply “school”, the truth of the matter is that these residence halls and the college itself, is our home. Above all else, I hope to bring every sense of the word into reality for any future residents that I may
Students’ opinions and school policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in college have changed over the years. LGBT students are typically treated the same way as regular straight students when it comes to classes, extracurricular activates, and housing which is both good and bad. Certain LGBT students may need additional resources such as additional counseling, housing adjustments, and other various things that schools are not currently providing. Typically on campus housing at Universities consists of one-to-three students in a shared bedroom with shared bathroom facilities in rooms assigned by male and female
I think everyone would agree to the fact that college dorms are the best thing that can ever happen in a student’s life. Dorms were initially live savior for many who travelled from faraway land just to follow their dreams of pursuing their education. Sooner after that dorm became a norm in the lives of college going students to be very specific. Just to give you a little idea dorms have been known to be the inspirational spot to many people who transformed the world into a better place to leave. From the world famous Mark Zuckerberg to the creators of Spongebob Squarepants dorms where were it all once began.
"Tomorrow is the first day of what I will become." I wrote this in my diary the night before my first day of college. I was anxious as I imagined the stereotypical college room: intellectual students, in-depth discussions about neat stuff, and of course, a casual professor sporting the tweed jacket with leather elbows. I was also ill as I foresaw myself drowning in a murky pool of reading assignments and finals, hearing a deep, depressing voice ask "What can you do with your life?" Since then, I've settled comfortably into the college "scene" and have treated myself to the myth that I'll hear my calling someday, and that my future will introduce itself to me with a hardy handshake. I can't completely rid my conscience from reality, however. My university education and college experience has become a sort of fitful, and sleepless night, in which I have wonderful dreams and ideas, but when I awaken to apply these aspirations, reality sounds as a six thirty alarm and my dreams are forgotten.
Between the articles of Dowd and Conley one can clearly see the benefits that go along with entering college with a randomly selected roommate. Whether it is preparing for marriage, or simply preparing for the stubborn people who you will meet in life, and you will meet plenty of those, that first year of college is key in ones preparation for those situations. So forget the ‘perfect roommate’ dream, it is an unattainable and frankly foolish one to have. It is the imperfection and serendipity that seamlessly makes the experience perfect.
After graduating from high school on June 3, 2012, I quickly realized coming to college would be my first step towards becoming an adult. I wondered how living in a college dorm would differ from living in my parents’ house, or would it just be the same as living at home? I could not answer the question at that time. When I first stepped on the campus of Lamar University, I felt very comfortable with the people I came in contact with and the campus surroundings. I thought to myself, “This school would be a great way to see what life was about outside of my parents’ house”. Over the past year, I have found there are differences between living in the dorms and living at home.
“Is every new thing better than old?” On 5 November 2013, UM held the inauguration ceremony for the new campus in the University Hall on new campus, and all the students will go to the new campus soon. It seems very good to the students, but some students actually have the same question, “should we move to the new campus?” Of course, everything has its good side and bad side. For moving to the new campus, most students think that its disadvantage is more than the advantage. There are three things that show why students should not move to the new campus, and they are students are having part-time job, the transport is not good, and the new campus does not have enough dormitories.
Everyone is bound to possess imagination toward college life before being enrolled. I am not an exception as well. To my ideal college, it should be the same with the foreign TV series have shown, with a lush large meadow where students are able to lay under the shadow of leaves, enjoying reading books or chatting with intimate friends; a huge number of clubs are established in school; students can participate in a variety of activities like singing contests, speeches given by famous people, exclusive events held by school, and so on. Also, a wonderful college will not be complete without a spectacular library, owing a vase collection of worldwide and comprehensive books and resources. However, all of these imaginations vanished without a second as I stepped into my college. There did have a lush large meadow lies on the central of campus, though it can hardly reach my expectation because there were countless insects living in there. To which I make compromise given that it would never be as clean as the soft carpet in my cozy home. After a month struggling for getting used to the new and unfamiliar things, I was bitterly announced to be defeated in that this college was utterly beyond my imagination.