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I lived in a dorm for my Freshmen Year and I don't regret a moment of it. Dorms are a great introduction to college life and help with the social aspect tremendously. However, there are many drawbacks. In my first dorm, I ended up rooming with an uptight music major whom I thought would kill me in my sleep one day. My other roomates were also a little high-strung. It takes a lot of effort to live with total strangers in this cramped little space, especially if the majority of them are not clean people so the neatfreaks have to pick up the slack. It works for a while, but then it gets old. Eventually you will want to run towards those appartments as fast as you can. However living in the dorm is also giving you a period of time to look for those people right for you that you can split an appartment with. It really helps with rent.