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Originally posted by MoonStar17
I love my commuter school!
soon FIU will be in big competition with UM... since its in the same city...but im glad i came here being in a commuter school isnt as bad as i thought it would be 
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Good! Take UM down a peg or two! The Canes have run this city for long enough! What's your mascot?
And on the subject of commuter campuses, usually mostly freshmen live on campus and yes, it's a "once in a lifetime" type of experience, but the rest of your college years you never hang out in the dorms, anyway ( I lived in a suite on campus for 6 weeks in the summer before freshman year, and it was definitely enough!)
As for Greeks not having houses, I've read others' posts about how it doesn't matter at all if they don't have a house...how about those off-campus parties that take place in regular houses that are known as a particular fraternity's house? Those houses feel every bit as much like regular fraternity houses as the real thing. And I know many times brothers and sisters will live together in apartments and houses...when my chapter first recolonized they bought out a wing of one of the apartment complexes.
TV makes dorm life seem really cool...huge spacious rooms (like in Felicity) and your roomates and floormates who become lifelong friends. In reality you have a teeny weeny living space (this is my experience, not everyone's), psychotic roomates who drive you crazy, you have to carry your darn laundry three flights down, and you've gotta eat CAMPUS FOOD or live on Easy Mac and Ramen.
Don't get me wrong, I love the atmosphere of my campus and towards the end of last semester I could be found in any of my friends' dorms more than my own apartment, but don't feel bad because you can't have the "typical" college experience. TV and movies have idealized it.