Why fear dorm life?
Every student preparing to move into their college’s dorms has had fears about the living conditions they were about to endure. Whether those fears included roommates from hell, bathrooms that rivaled chemical-waste dumps, inedible food or bossy residential advisors, the prospect of living on campus isn’t too inviting. Countless hours of my time were spent envisioning these problems in anticipation of moving to the dorms at Sacramento State. It seemed apparent that my roommate would have blue hair, green teeth, smell like an ashtray and have a prized lint collection. It was tough not to wonder about the disease I might catch in the showers, dying of hunger because the dining commons food was so bad or having a Resident Advisor who preferred barking orders to advising. After a few days moving and settling in, late August, my fear of dorm life diminished. In the first weekend everyone started to find a comfort level and began to socialize like close friends. Some standard icebreakers ena
