Living On Campus, For most first-year students, this is their first time experiencing living away from home. Most of the students will select on-campus housing such as dorms, apartments for their years, so you can meet and get to know other students in residence.
The following year if you choose, you can live off-campuses with roommates that you met during your first year. Living On Campus has its own perks such as expanding your social life, Saving money on costs and access campus and student-sponsored events.
It’s cheaper than campus housing because you will have complete control over groceries and food expenses, and you will be splitting rents among your roommates.
Perks of Living on Campus
1. Proximity
Living on campus gives you easy access to everything you’ll need on campus. While you’re probably well familiar with life outside of the confines of your school by now, the chances are that your academic responsibilities and commitments are ramping up as you get closer to graduation. The convenience of being close to everything you’ll need to get your work done can be invaluable.
2. Simplicity
Living in a dorm room means that you don’t have to worry about buying furniture and other things you’ll need to move off-campus.
3. Cost
This isn’t the case everywhere, but in some places, living on campus can be a lot cheaper than living off. Do the math and determine if the cost of living on campus – including utilities like the Internet – will be lower.
4. Fewer Chores
If you’re not into the idea of wasting your time cleaning a bathroom or kitchen, mowing the lawn or sweeping the living room, living on campus can give you a reprieve from these types of responsibilities. This isn’t true of all on-campus housing – apartments, in particular, might be exempt from some of these benefits – but the school’s maintenance department might be much keener on fixing problems quickly than some slum lord owners of off-campus dwellings.
5. Community
If living alone makes you feel isolated, and even a house with a few roommates makes you feel lonely, living on-campus can help give you a sense of community.
6. Special Housing Options
Some schools incentivize on-campus living by setting aside the best rooms and apartments for upper-level students. You could end up in a pretty sweet space that you wouldn’t be able to access otherwise.
7. Availability
Depending on where your school is located, it might not be easy to find convenient housing that the college doesn’t own.
8. Convenience
College housing offices usually run smoothly and can set things up for students, so they don’t have to worry about anything while living on campus. If you’re still not psyched about the idea of having to stay on top of bills and rent every month, living in college housing can help forestall that burden.
9. Meal Plan
Don’t like cooking? Can’t spend a lot of time shopping for and preparing your meals? Having a meal plan to go along with your on-campus housing only adds to the convenience.
10. Laziness
We don’t always condone laziness, but life in a dorm is one of the last opportunities you’ll likely have to live in such a low-commitment, low-responsibility setting. It’s doubtful that you will ever again live in a place where you don’t have to worry in some way or another about maintenance, cleaning, cooking or buying furniture.
