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[quote=Anonymous]I went to a school with a 4-year residential requirement. I liked it for the following reasons:

1) There was no real housing scramble. Yes there was a lottery, and you had to be flexible about who you were living with, based on your lottery number, but if you didn't do the lottery, you still had housing somewhere on campus. It was one last thing to worry about.

2) No monthly rent or utilities. Again, one less thing to worry about.

3) Meal plan. One less thing to worry about. I ended up getting a long term illness my junior year, and not having to shop and cook was great. Plus, while not the best food ever, the dining halls were a great way to be social without spending extra money.

4) The social/support aspects. And the peer pressure aspects for the good habits (if my roommate was studying, chances are good I was also studying, as to not disturb her). It probably also saved me from making bad drunk decisions (because I wasn't going to bring a dude home to hook up when my roommate was sleeping in the other bed). Also, there was always something interesting to do, and someone to do it with because we were all on campus.

5) It prepared me for living in close quarters with another person--helpful when I got married.

6) When we got in trouble for things like being loud, or underage possession of alcohol, or public drunkenness, it was handled through the school, instead of the government. Which means unless you did something exceptionally bad, you graduated without any kind of permanent record.

But I grew up UMC, and parents/grandparents paid for my expensive rural SLAC education. DH grew up poor, and needed to do college as cheaply as possible. He went to a large urban public university that didn't have the same type of "community" that my school did. He could find cheaper housing than the dorms, and cheaper food than the meal plans, and he wasn't looking for the social elements of college because he was also working FT. Circumstances dictated a different college experience for him, but I don't think he is unhappy with his choices.[/quote]

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