When a girl is dreaming of going to college, living in a dorm is When a girl is dreaming of going to college, living in a dorm is probably not in the array of things that are being dreamt of. Going to college is supposed to be about freedom and living in your own apartment or house, right? Who wants to live with another girl in a 10 x 15 room? Who wants to have to use a bathroom and shower that is shared among thirty other girls? Not many people would say yes to these questions. I know I certainly didn’t when I was planning for college. When my mom told me that she wanted me to live in the dorm my freshman year, I was absolutely devastated. I had planned on having my own place. No matter how hard I tried to argue that a dorm was not a safe and healthy place for me to live, my mom came back with a never-ending list of why I should live in one. Now that I have spent almost three months of my college life in a dorm that houses over nine-hundred girls of my same age, I have come to realize that my mom was right in telling me that dorm life has its advantages.On that dreaded Saturday morning when my family and I were standing in a line that seemed at least a mile long, to get an elevator up to my room. I was certain that I would hate living in the dorm. All I could see was a billion and one girls in bitchy moods because it was taking forever to move stuff in. No one seemed friendly and I could just imagine all the girls with terrible attitudes, myself included, that day having to live together and never really getting a break from each other. I was ready to turn around and go home at any second. All I would have had to hear was “let’s go” and I would have been out of there. After many trips to and from the car and countless minutes of standing in line, we finally got all of my belongings moved into my room. The time came for my family to leave me. I started to hate my new home more than ever. I said...
