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this time next week i am moving to toronto for university. I'm living in a dorm in a hotel. im looking forward to leaving home. As an only child, I am abit apprehensive about living with another human for 8 months.. with no walls. I am a pretty picky person by nature.
Anyways... post yr experiences of first year university. i want to see lots of panties.

― ge s (kissmyfist), Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I joined every radical student group and drove my roommate out after she took messages for me from chirpy lesbians. It worked out pretty well.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My girlfriend moved in with me in the campus apartments -- where I already had a roommate -- after her husband abandoned her and her kids, a stalker spooked her and she went to live with her folks, and she ended up leaving the kids with them while she tried to find work in western Massachusetts (not our smartest decision, but it's not like I knew the area well either). "We" (she was living with me illegally, which is practically a Hampshire tradition) moved into the dorms in order to not piss off my roommate, where I ended up meeting one of my best friends, and my hallmates sold the lounge furniture and rented the lounge out to not-exactly-homeless-no-matter-what-they-said people (i.e. kids who didn't feel like living with their parents cause their parents disapproved of the reefer).

I burned through my trust fund and took classes on sled dogs and safaris.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried out for the local sketch comedy group, ended up trying to write for them, and began the first of many monastic/celibate years in ann arbor.

also, i finally got drunk for the first time in my life.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I joined the university juggling club, got drunk on schnapps on moving-in day (the only thing available to underaged me), got along OK with roommate (tad self-absorbed, but always brought home-made wine and ouzo back from his visits home).
Other things happened as well.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Although I am from a family of four kids, all close in age, when I went to college I never found a congenial situation with a roommate in spite of making several attempts. Living solo I was as happy as a pig in slop. With roommates, I never got comfortable. YMMV.

― Aimless, Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My roommate was a hippie chick from louisana who listened to Tori Amos and wore patchouli. I was active with NOW and the presidential campaign for then Governor Clinton. I was very studious, rarely drank and would occasionally spend the night in my boyfriend's dorm on the opposite side of campus. I don't think I even went out to any shows or clubs that first year. . .

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I worked 50+ hours a week because the money was great, lived in a little hovel off-campus, took two classes, never showed up to class after the first day and got blitzed every nights (coinciding with work, oddly enough). I have only vague recollections of the June '00-Dec. '00 period.

I think I was bitter about missing out on that "first-year college experience" of going away and getting checks from the 'rents.

No, scratch that, I know I was bitter.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I moved from Indiana to New Orleans and was happy to be away from my parents but desperately missed the guy I'd been dating all through high school. I was attempting to do a long-distance relationship-type thing with him but I think we both knew it wasn't going to work, and it didn't. My first semester I lived in a dorm with a girl who was the exact opposite of me in pretty much every way, and we were amused by our differences and liked each other a lot. She was a tough, loud, hard-drinking, combative dyke and I was a comparatively shy and bookish, introverted nerdy girl with a naive devotion to her high school boyfriend. She got me out on the town, into the French Quarter, and helped me to loosen up and enjoy the city. Most of my memories of moving out are colored by her presence -- I hadn't had such a close girlfriend since I was a kid, and it was really wonderful. Unfortunately she dropped out of school and moved back to her home town and we haven't really been in touch for a long time now.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm...I´d like to think I own this thread, but I still go back home during the holidays and depend on my parents financially still. However, I got a nice lil´ story of my own. I´ll save it for a bit later on. I´m not in the best of moods right now to spin an ol´ yarn.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 24 August 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

firstly, i wear undies, not panties.

i lived in a hall of residence, which is what you people would call a dorm. it was terrible. firstly, it cost an arm and a leg. it was also densely populated with jocks and bulimics. people made fun of me for listening to the spice girls. surprisingly, it had nice food. i survived by getting drunk a lot and making friends outside the hall. i also discovered the trendy bars that let underage people in, nitrous, LSD, and that gay men don't mind if you like the spice girls.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

mine was the same as di except for the spice girls and the LSD

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

and the panties

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean you wear panties, not undies?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i call them jocks

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I call them panties.

I half-heartily went to a small communtity college for two years while still living with my parents. After dropping out, I attended a school for massage therapy, where I met my husband and moved in with him six months before getting married. I've never lived alone in my entire life.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only person here who has never lived alone?

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i love living alone. it really cuts down on the body count.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I had two roommates and frequent visitors from the next room but discovered that I could attain needed solitude by playing side two of White Light/White Heat.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

GREAT!
thanks for the replies. I'm thinking I'm gonna be spending alot of time under headphones or drunk.
I'm not looking forward to the roomate/visitor thing.. I'm a social guy, but I'm really selective about the people i befriend/tolerate and get annoyed easily.

buuuuuuuuuuut I get UNLIMITED free food!!
yah! yah! yah!

― ge s (kissmyfist), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The two months before I got married were the first time I lived alone. I'd always lived with others since leaving home in 1991 and spending a year and a half in a hall of residence about seven miles from the University campus (hugely limiting my social life). Since then, I have been in a succession of reasonably successful flatshares until we bought the house two months before the wedding. I moved in, and Neil moved in once we got married.

I've never lived with a boyfriend ever. I can't imagine living on my own - I'd go mad. but I like sharing with decent flatmates - you can have your space when you need it, but also often have a pub partner or someone to share a bottle of wine and a video without the hassle of phoning round people to see who fancies doing what.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll be moving to sunny E11 next weekend which I'm a bit nervous about, having never lived with anyone but my family...I do sort of wish I'd moved into my uni's halls last year but after 12 months of putting up with LondonMet students I think I made the right choice, heh heh

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh but now I remember I did manage this and spent the summer working in the Students' Union so it wasn't all that bad...possibly

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i love living alone. it really cuts down on the body count.

Very wise!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I left home at 17. Lived in an apt for a year with some friends. Nothing great. Went to college next year and ended up with two deadheads as roomates, they listened to the Dead and Phish all day, and nothing else. They didn't own any stereo equipment so they used mine all the time, if i put on something other than Phish and the Dead they went nuts. They were also two trust fund babies. Rich, drugged out assholes. Needless to say I moved out for the second semester and lived in "musicians hall". The best time of my life. So good in fact I was asked never to go back to that college again.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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