School:
Lincoln University (PA) and
Temple University
1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo? All co-ed dorms at Temple. Mostly single-sex at Lincoln.
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it? 24-hour visitation at Temple. SERIOUS visitation policy at Lincoln. The only 2 weekends at Lincoln that were 24 hour visitation were Homecoming (Fall) and Punk Rock (Blue & White weekend-Spring). Any other time, visitation ended at 10 or 11 Sunday-Thursday, and 2am on Friday and Saturday.
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)? Didn't really have a choice at either school. Lincoln-Single sex. Temple-Co-ed dorm, single-sex floors.
4. Did you sneak folks in and out? No need to sneak at Temple. Lincoln? HECK YEAH!!! It got to be a pain in both situations though.
At Temple, there were many times where you may run into a guy in your floor bathroom at 3 in the morning because he was too lazy to go upstairs to the men's floor to use the bathroom. Plus, you would hear doors slamming and people in the halls all times of night. You could never really look bummy because you never knew who you were going to run into on your floor.
At Lincoln, I lived on the ground floor near the back door that was always used as the sneak door! Once in a blue the alarm would be on. If you know anything about Lincoln, it is out in the middle of nowhere, and the dorm that I lived in was right next to the soccer field, so whenever someone would prop open the back door to let people in, all kinds of bugs, worms, mice and whatever would come crawling in the building. It was quite disgusting! I will never forget the "surprise" room checks after curfew. Man! That was always a comedic site! You would see guys falling from the windows in their boxers with their girls throwing their clothes out after them. My roomates had to go through that mess too. I used to go home every weekend, so every Monday morning when I came back, the roommate I had 1st semester would have a new man in her bed. EVERY WEEKEND! And let's not talk about the empty 40 bottles and blunts laying around. Needless to say, I would kick him out and cuss her out as soon as I stepped in the door at 6 in the morning. Let's not even talk about the weekend I came back and she had re-arranged the room with both of our dressers down the middle of the floor serving as the dividing line. Man! I could not wait for 2nd semester! That's when I got a new roommate! She wasn't as trifling, but she had her ways about her too. Ahh...Dear Lincoln...Dear Lincoln...
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them? I've gone through my share of roommates at Lincoln and at Temple. I had 2 roommates at Lincoln. You can read about
the 1st one in the previous paragraph. Pure drama! She was a spoiled rich chick from New York. Boarding School all her life. So she was probably used to acting out. We actually became friends after I moved across the hall. LOL I left Lincoln after my 1st year, so I wasn't even trying to keep in contact with her. My 2nd roommate was from DC. She was cool. We both sang and we were in the gospel ensemble together. I still see her ex-boyfriend once in a blue-he's here in Philly. We had our issues also, but we got along better. I keep in touch with a few people who know her and I ask how she's doing, but that's the extent.
I lived in the dorms and commuted at Temple. The 1st year I lived in the dorms, my roommate was one of my childhood best friends. It was a good idea at first. We got along, but we learned quickly that we just should have never been roommates. It's like that sometimes. We still see each other on the regular. The 2nd and last semester I ever lived on campus, I was thrown into a suite with the 2 roommates from hell! They were mad that I got placed in their suite 2 weeks before the semester started. We spoke on the phone and it was cool. But once we started living together? Pure hell on earth! I was hardly ever there because I had a work study job, an internship at a local radio station and a full load of classes. Plus, I had a car. However, the time I did spend there was HORRENDOUS! They didn't want me to have any male company in the suite. However, their men took up permanent residence. They would use up all of my toilet paper and never replace it. They even went as far as to hide their silverware in my cabinets and then blame me for stealing it-then reported me to the RA for stealing. I was like why the heck would I steal your Dollar Store crap? I'm never here! I even tried to be nice to them. I would bring them things from the radio station. My granny would send back extra food to share with them. Needless to say, my kindness was look at as a weakness. I just wanted peace in my home. I reported all of this to the RA on my floor and nothing happened. I took it as far as the RD, and all the RD said was, wait it out. WAIT IT OUT MY EYE! They tried to place me in another suite-this time with 5 other girls and I would have had the top bunk! I don't do bunk beds-period. So what did I do? I called my girl, told her to get her mom's truck and hightail it to my dorm. Yup...I sat outside with all of my things. As soon as my girl and her brother got there, I loaded up my car and her truck and home I went. The RD even came outside and asked me where I was going. I told her home. She was like why? I told her because she doesn't care about her residents. That was the end of college campus living for me. I commuted for the rest of my time at Temple. Can you tell I'm still bitter? LOL
Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments? I think I covered the outrageous moments in the above-mentioned paragraphs. Funny moments? Too many to recall. Dorm life was a trip.