[SilverTurtle]

I lived in the dorms for my 1st 3 years. It does help you meet people, and sometimes it's nice to be close to campus. My roommate (for all 3 of those years!) and I became good friends with the 2 girls across the hall from us. We all graduated a few years ago and STILL hang out together at least a few times a year. My favorite year for living arrangements was my junior year when I was on the Phi Beta hall (our campus doesn't have greek houses) and I was always in the middle of fraternity stuff.

My senior year I had an apartment with a couple of friends, and that was nice, too. No dorm rules, a real kitchen to cook in (instead of crappy school food), etc. I'm happy I had my dorm experience, especially my freshman year when I was meeting people but I was also happy to sort of grow out of it.