Life in a Dormitory
What do you feel when you live in a dormitory? At many colleges and universities, students live in dormitories.
In a glimpse, you will see things people do in their local life and culture.
Instant noodles, chatting, and computer games make up the tools for surviving dormitory life for most students.
They sometimes gather to do sports together, have snacks late at night, or just watch TV in the common room.
This is a new living situation for most of the students.
They learn to accomplish tasks of new types.
Handling these new things, students may create a similar old situation or they may learn new ways of handling those new tasks.
There are many new aspects of dormitory life for students.
One main thing of these is personal responsibility required of an individual.
There is sudden lack of parental guidance.
Of course dormitories have wardens and residence tutors to oversee the well-being of the residents.
However, the absence of parents as authority figures need student to keep watchful of their own responsibility.
This is important for their initial college life.
There are various tasks: keeping clean the room, cooking for meals, doing their own laundry.
This new situations will have great effect on students personal responsibility and are necessary to their academic and social accomplishment.
There is one important thing in dormitory life: relationship.
Students need to form good relationship.
The first relationship is formed between roommates.
Living with a roommate and adjusting to different living habits may cause tension.
Many students prefer complete privacy in their home.
So, it is a good idea to discuss several things early on with roommate and arrive at an agreeable arrangement.
Like siblings in their own home before, roommates live in continuous contact with them.
The condition obliges them to live with other persons, no matter what the situation.
Of course, in a dormitory there are problems.
Students must solve these problems in a reasonable and prudent way.
A college student may adapt with all new challenges and freedoms of dorm life.
By learning, they will accept dormitory life as unique environment.
Preparing themselves those ways will enable them to face new things in their life.
In a glimpse, you will see things people do in their local life and culture.
Instant noodles, chatting, and computer games make up the tools for surviving dormitory life for most students.
They sometimes gather to do sports together, have snacks late at night, or just watch TV in the common room.
This is a new living situation for most of the students.
They learn to accomplish tasks of new types.
Handling these new things, students may create a similar old situation or they may learn new ways of handling those new tasks.
There are many new aspects of dormitory life for students.
One main thing of these is personal responsibility required of an individual.
There is sudden lack of parental guidance.
Of course dormitories have wardens and residence tutors to oversee the well-being of the residents.
However, the absence of parents as authority figures need student to keep watchful of their own responsibility.
This is important for their initial college life.
There are various tasks: keeping clean the room, cooking for meals, doing their own laundry.
This new situations will have great effect on students personal responsibility and are necessary to their academic and social accomplishment.
There is one important thing in dormitory life: relationship.
Students need to form good relationship.
The first relationship is formed between roommates.
Living with a roommate and adjusting to different living habits may cause tension.
Many students prefer complete privacy in their home.
So, it is a good idea to discuss several things early on with roommate and arrive at an agreeable arrangement.
Like siblings in their own home before, roommates live in continuous contact with them.
The condition obliges them to live with other persons, no matter what the situation.
Of course, in a dormitory there are problems.
Students must solve these problems in a reasonable and prudent way.
A college student may adapt with all new challenges and freedoms of dorm life.
By learning, they will accept dormitory life as unique environment.
Preparing themselves those ways will enable them to face new things in their life.
