[Arkcon]

Spoo said:
My best advice is to get out of the dorm environment if you don't like it. Where you live is very important, since you'll be spending much of your time there.

See now, I'd disagree there. You don't have to do anything more at a dorm besides sleep and store your clothes there. You can study in a library, work in the laboratory, exercise in a sports facility, meet people you like to talk to. Plenty of people work, or run home every free moment to be with family or significant other.

I was really worried about the dorm environment, so I lived off campus at first. I saved some money, but I missed out on a good source of information on what was going on. The burnouts hanging around the dorm may well turn out to be not a bad bunch of guys -- in small doses.