[nabs-l] An additional question about selecting universities

[Ignasi Cambra]

If you are going to school for masters, I think it's better to go off campus. Most dorms are generally full of freshmen and many grad students find that they can't focus etc. I'm not implying that there's anything wrong with freshmen, of course! But many graduate students end up going off campus. An other good solution are on campus apartments. You are not in a dorm anymore and you have your own apartment with your own kitchen etc. Those are generally very expensive though, because they are convenient in many ways and they want you to pay for that :).
In the end it all depends on where you go to school. If you decide that you don't want to live on campus but you end up going somewhere that makes it very complicated for you to go to class every day, you will be in a worse situation than if you stay in a dorm and have to deal with the typical dorm inconveniences.
On May 23, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Kirt Manwaring wrote:

> Adriana,
>  I think that boils down to personal preference, pure and simple.  I
> think lots of students spend their freshmen and maybe sophomore years
> on campus, then move off-campus to an apartment instead of a dorm.  I
> just finished Freshman year, where I lived in an on-campus dorm.  The
> good things were lots of social activities and things to keep me busy,
> I made some great friends, and classes were only a five minute walk
> away, give or take a couple minutes.  The bad things were there was
> pretty much no privacy, doing homework with parties happening all
> around you requires lots of discipline and self-control and you can
> hardly find alone time ever.  But I think it's a good way for new,
> younger students like Freshmen to kind of get used to college...but,
> as a general rule, I think if you're not jumping in to college for the
> first time, off-campus is better in most cases.
>  Hope that helps,
> Kirt
> 
> On 5/23/11, ADRIANA PULIDO <adrimpc80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>> 
>> I have not yet made a final decision about the university where I'm
>> going to study the master's Degree. I just have an additional
>> question:
>> According to your experience, is it better to live on campus, or off campus?
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> --
>> Adriana Pulido
>> Filóloga en Inglés y músico de la Universidad
>> Nacional de Colombia. Becaria Fulbright para Maestría.
>> 
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