Dorm Rooms

[budsmoker only]

In the fall i will be attending a university and i think i wanna live at the dorms so i dont have to drive a lot and i just wanna live at the college get that college feel and what not...

but i have some questions bout them for everyone who has had that experience (assuming others have)...

well first one,
do you advise getting a room mate?? or just having your own... cuz right now im thinkin id like to have a room mate....

second..
how easy is it to have weed in the dorms/smoke in them.... like do they have people that will come around and search your room if they suspect it or anything like that.... cuz if thats the case i just wont smoke in the dorms and just have my stash hidden and shit....

uhh thats all the questions i can think of right now... and i gotta go to work, but ill check this when i get back or if i more questions...

thanks in advance for the people who respond with that dorm experience and shit....

budsmoker only Reviewed by budsmoker only on 07-10-2007. Dorm Rooms In the fall i will be attending a university and i think i wanna live at the dorms so i dont have to drive a lot and i just wanna live at the college get that college feel and what not... but i have some questions bout them for everyone who has had that experience (assuming others have)... well first one, do you advise getting a room mate?? or just having your own... cuz right now im thinkin id like to have a room mate.... second.. how easy is it to have weed in the dorms/smoke in Rating: 5

[Straight Illin]

Get a vap.

[napolitana869]

I wouldnt smoke in your room until you've talked with other people who have lived in the dorms at the school you're going to go to. Some schools are stricter than others, and its good to figure it out through someone elses experiences rather than your own.

I'd invest in a safe, regardless of if you get a room mate or not. No one can look in something thats locked.

I dont know about the room mate situation. Mine kind of sucked. Some people form life long friendships because of them. Its a gamble.

Good luck with it. Next year will be my first year living off campus.

[BeatlesRGod]

Like napolitana said, all schools are different and roommates can be a gamble. My university can go into your room and search your shit whenever they want, but never did. Occasionally they will have a fire safety check (so don't leave anything out). I was fine leaving my stuff in my drawer and my roommate had his bubbler between his TV and his wall, without any problems. I don't recommend a bong or blunt or anything that makes a lot of smoke, and set up a fan by the window and blow through a cardboard tube with a dryer sheet over one end (to kill the weed smell). All this is if you don't have a smoke detector in your room. I only had a sprinkler, so i was good but next year I'll have a detector so I got a vaporizer. I lived above and next to R.A.'s and never got caught (almost did once cuz the R.A. below me had her window open and smelled it).

P.S. I became really good friends with my roommate (he doesn't smoke). It's the luck of the draw. You can probably switch rooms after the first semester if your roommate really sucks.

[napolitana869]

you can tape a plastic baggie over the smoke detector.

[NOX1447]

or tape dryer sheets over the air condition vents. Then when the air blows through it puts a nice smell in the room lol

[FakeBoobsRule]

Living on campus is part of the whole college experience. In addition to the partys and meeting new people and having fun you will actually find it has some advantages to your studying and some disadvantages. People love to get together and study together and living on campus will help this but there are times you will want to go somewhere quiet to study. There are more points but these are some that come to mind.

Having a roommate is pretty good and sometimes bad. If you never lived with someone else you will find there are times the two of you will get along great other times you just wish they would leave, unless you hate each other from the jump. If you know someone going to the same school you may want to room together instead of getting on chosen for you.

If you live in a dorm you give up a lot of rights. Most can just come in and search your dorm room at any time so you have to be very cool with your habit. You will learn what you can and can't get away with. It will also depend a lot on the RA on that floor or wing or area. In general a resident advisor is a student just like you but gets his place for free or reduced to be like the hall monitor/assistant super. They deal with all kinds of problems from plumbing to noise to dueling residents. Some are cool, some are hardcore.

[blazed_babe]

i agree with a lot of the above advice, but i want to add one thing -

be careful about keeping your smoking stuff in your dorm room - if you do, never leave anything out, if your door is open and an RA or someone in authority walks by and you have a bong in plain view, you can get busted. also, my school just started sending drug dogs through the halls - this is random, i think it happened 3 or 4 times this past year in each dorm (i didnt live on campus). but i've heard if you keep your stuff in the fridge, they can't smell it. i dunno, i never tried it - it might not work at all.

[higher4hockey]

i never liked any of my roommates. i had three in two different schools. dorm life is what you make of it. sometimes its cool and you meet great friends, other times it sucks balls and you can't stand any of the people on your floor. the dorms are what you make of it though. get a fridge, and get a decent sized one, not one of the shoebox sized ones. also a coffee table is a good thing. i hope you're tolerant of all kinds of music, cause theres always some jerk-off blasting his rap music at full volume thinking everyone loves it as much as he does.

bottom line, the dorms are defenitely a gamble, you might have a blast in them and meet some cool ass people. or you might not know any of them and spend as little time as possible in them.

[scream]

My experience:
I lived on campus with 7 roommates in a suite (2 people /room, 4 rooms, living room, 2 bathrooms) and I knew none of them when I went into college. I got to be pretty good friends with them all within the first week or two. It was a totally new experience for me because I was the only white guy, and only person that didn't know everyone else in the suite.

The thing about room searches is, the people that are searching your rooms are going to be RA's and campus security. RA's have been in your spot and know where to look. That being said get one of the stealth stash boxes for your stuff.
My trick was to become good friends with some of the RA's, smoke with some of the RA's, and party with most of the RA's. When some of the RA's were on duty a lot of the time they would hang out in my room with their walkie talkies so we always knew what was going on. I always knew when "surprise" room checks were going to happen, and whenever we had a party in my room as long as I answered the door we wouldn't even get a noise violation.

My advice for you is to find the RA's that are cool and become their friend. Be safe and try not to smoke in your room too much. Use a doobie tube. Only have 1 or 2 small bowls, bongs and vaps are just to dangerous unless you want to have a fairly bulky safe.

My weed dealer on campus would deliver to my room whenever he wasn't in class, he slept when I slept for the most part, and was good friends with me and my roommates so he was in my room fairly often anyway. He normally just had shwag, but if I asked for nug he would get it.

Bottom line is be as careful as you possibly can be.