I don't miss this about the dorms...

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FarminCy

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reason 6 billion why you should never live in the dorm.

I loved my time in the dorms. Some great memories and stories that just could not happen elsewhere. Plus most people would most likely never have met some people who ended up being great friends.

My friends who lived off campus right away never really met people other than their same old crew that we knew from high school.
 

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Haha not sure how wearing your thong would help prevent athlete's foot. You're supposed to cover your feet! :jimlad:

HAHA! I was in a mall in Gary Indiana (pretty poor area) looking for some flippies, and I asked the shoe store clerk if they had any thongs, and she got ALL wide-eyed like I had smacked Jerry Springer. That was the first time that I learned that you cant have thongs and thongs coexist.

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I highly doubt that was an official letter by ISU. True story though, I was a RA for 3 years and my last year I was in Linden Hall and the floor I had was by far way worse than anything I dealt with in 2 years at Towers. My floor basically blew through it's entire floor treasury because of cleanup charges and vandalism on the floor. One weekend someone smeared human feces all over the bathroom and the floor was fined $200 for cleanup. Every month they were getting charged for one of the halway window screens getting busted out, 1 guy actually was caught in the act throwing a plunger through one. Had DPS on the floor one night at 2am because some idiot was shooting bottle rockets down the hallway.

I had a great floor at Towers but the rest of the building usually provided some headaches but I can say none of it ever topped the group of idiots I dealt with in Linden. The rest of the building was pretty tame but when your hall director has to call a mandatory floor meeting because the janitors were to the point of refusing to clean up the messes they were making that was pathetic. Never got why people thought it was funny to trash the place the live, highly doubt they would do that if they owned it or it were an apartment they had a deposit on or their parent's house.

I also don't miss:
- The 3am fire alarms in the middle of the winter caused by someone that thought it would be funny to pull the alarm
- The idiot that left leftover chicken wings in the microwave for an hour which caught on fire and set off the fire alarm
- The morons that crank their stereos so loud you can hear them 3 floors down
- The guy at the end of the hall that showered maybe once a week and you could smell the stench in his room 1/2 way down the hall whenever he opened the door - The guys on your floor that were too lazy to lift up the toilet seat and instead peed all over it.
- The weirdos that used the floor den to play dungeons and dragons
- The creepy 45 year old guy on our floor that was addicted to porn and always asked everyone on the floor if they wanted to get a pizza watch a porno with him

I'm sure I'm missing more...
 

thatguy

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I loved my time in the dorms. Some great memories and stories that just could not happen elsewhere. Plus most people would most likely never have met some people who ended up being great friends.

My friends who lived off campus right away never really met people other than their same old crew that we knew from high school.

only person from my high school that went to ISU and my best friends these days are guys from ISU, so this logic doesn't really work, plus my friends that lived in dorms didn't have half the fun we did.
 

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I wouldn't trade in my dorm experience for anything. I advise every incoming freshmen I know to live in the dorms at least one year.
 

FarminCy

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only person from my high school that went to ISU and my best friends these days are guys from ISU, so this logic doesn't really work, plus my friends that lived in dorms didn't have half the fun we did.

Good for you. Your right my logic doesn't work since you (1 person) didn't fit the same mold I was talking about. Good god.
 

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I highly doubt that was an official letter by ISU. True story though, I was a RA for 3 years and my last year I was in Linden Hall and the floor I had was by far way worse than anything I dealt with in 2 years at Towers. My floor basically blew through it's entire floor treasury because of cleanup charges and vandalism on the floor. One weekend someone smeared human feces all over the bathroom and the floor was fined $200 for cleanup. Every month they were getting charged for one of the halway window screens getting busted out, 1 guy actually was caught in the act throwing a plunger through one. Had DPS on the floor one night at 2am because some idiot was shooting bottle rockets down the hallway.

I had a great floor at Towers but the rest of the building usually provided some headaches but I can say none of it ever topped the group of idiots I dealt with in Linden. The rest of the building was pretty tame but when your hall director has to call a mandatory floor meeting because the janitors were to the point of refusing to clean up the messes they were making that was pathetic. Never got why people thought it was funny to trash the place the live, highly doubt they would do that if they owned it or it were an apartment they had a deposit on or their parent's house.

I also don't miss:
- The 3am fire alarms in the middle of the winter caused by someone that thought it would be funny to pull the alarm
- The idiot that left leftover chicken wings in the microwave for an hour which caught on fire and set off the fire alarm
- The morons that crank their stereos so loud you can hear them 3 floors down
- The guy at the end of the hall that showered maybe once a week and you could smell the stench in his room 1/2 way down the hall whenever he opened the door - The guys on your floor that were too lazy to lift up the toilet seat and instead peed all over it.
- The weirdos that used the floor den to play dungeons and dragons
- The creepy 45 year old guy on our floor that was addicted to porn and always asked everyone on the floor if they wanted to get a pizza watch a porno with him

I'm sure I'm missing more...

LOL....the 45 year old guy comment is the best of 2010! You are the winner!
 

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I highly doubt that was an official letter by ISU. True story though, I was a RA for 3 years and my last year I was in Linden Hall and the floor I had was by far way worse than anything I dealt with in 2 years at Towers. My floor basically blew through it's entire floor treasury because of cleanup charges and vandalism on the floor. One weekend someone smeared human feces all over the bathroom and the floor was fined $200 for cleanup. Every month they were getting charged for one of the halway window screens getting busted out, 1 guy actually was caught in the act throwing a plunger through one. Had DPS on the floor one night at 2am because some idiot was shooting bottle rockets down the hallway.

I had a great floor at Towers but the rest of the building usually provided some headaches but I can say none of it ever topped the group of idiots I dealt with in Linden. The rest of the building was pretty tame but when your hall director has to call a mandatory floor meeting because the janitors were to the point of refusing to clean up the messes they were making that was pathetic. Never got why people thought it was funny to trash the place the live, highly doubt they would do that if they owned it or it were an apartment they had a deposit on or their parent's house.

I also don't miss:
- The 3am fire alarms in the middle of the winter caused by someone that thought it would be funny to pull the alarm
- The idiot that left leftover chicken wings in the microwave for an hour which caught on fire and set off the fire alarm
- The morons that crank their stereos so loud you can hear them 3 floors down
- The guy at the end of the hall that showered maybe once a week and you could smell the stench in his room 1/2 way down the hall whenever he opened the door - The guys on your floor that were too lazy to lift up the toilet seat and instead peed all over it.
- The weirdos that used the floor den to play dungeons and dragons
- The creepy 45 year old guy on our floor that was addicted to porn and always asked everyone on the floor if they wanted to get a pizza watch a porno with him

I'm sure I'm missing more...

Had a guy in Helser who did this. Every day, 4 times a day he would crank Final Countdown.
 

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only person from my high school that went to ISU and my best friends these days are guys from ISU, so this logic doesn't really work, plus my friends that lived in dorms didn't have half the fun we did.

The only people I ever knew who didn't live in the dorms or a frat at any point in college were weirdo shut ins who wanted to avoid people altogether. Obviously not everyone is this way, but not living in the dorms (or a frat) your freshman year is definitely a bit weird.

I mean, everyone moved out of the dorms after freshman or sophomore year, and we had a blast in our apartment and house, but living in the dorms right off the bat was a ******* blast.
 

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You heard wrong. It's like 90% water. It dissolves. I can't believe I am even trying to explain this.

While that may be, it still catches in the drain grate, and is very annoying to get rid of.

Er... so I've heard.

More than likely. I get that water shooting in the bidet and then attempt to prove my dominance.

I'm sure the water shooting up there cleans some of the left-overs out as well...