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Depends on the type of person you are. I didn't like them much, but lots of people had fun and formed great memories and friendships.
by ZeroFries 8y ago
Depends on the type of person you are. I didn't like them much, but lots of people had fun and formed great memories and friendships.
- kypro 8y agoWhy should tax payers be paying for, "people having fun"? I mean people have fun, form memories and make friendships on holidays too.
- qntty 8y agoI think the point is that we should preserve the tradition of young people living in large houses together even if fewer people end up going to college. Tax payers don't necessarily have to pay for it. BTW, if you spent time living in a city near other young people, you probably didn't miss out on much by not living in a dorm. Some people really thrive in that environment, but personally I prefer the apartment-style living in an area with a lot of young people (college campus or city with young people) that I transitioned to after freshman year.
- zanny 8y agoThe kind of people who like living in dorms should then live in dorms (many reproduce dorm-like conditions after school anyway by sharing a house with other tenants) and the people who don't would rather not be compelled at a societal level to do it "because its so much fun for some of us". I had a year of rooming in college with a perfectly fine guy but I wouldn't ever want to do that ever again and got nothing particularly memorable out of it. I guess it did teach me that I desperately need privacy and personal space? Too bad I already learned that any time I went on vacation and spent too long in a day walking around a mall or theme park.