AFAIK, most freshman stay in the residence halls, and at some schools you're required to until you've accumulated a certain number of credits. I transfered 19.32 (yah, .32) credits, so technically after my first semester I could have moved out because I was considered a sophomore. Oh, and that's another thing. If you do transfer credits and you're registering for classes for the following semester/quarter/trimester, make sure you know what grade they're putting you in. At our school we register online and we have a specific hour window in order to do so and when I tried to register for spring 2004 at my time (Freshman, last name starting with C-[whatever]) it wouldn't let me. So, it took me a bit of time to find out that they had me listed as a sophomore and so I didn't get to register until the last day. At UM the sophomores are the last to register, but oh well.
Now, if you're having trouble with your roommate and you think you should move, talk to your Resident Advisor (RA) first. If they can't help you sort it out, go to the resident's life office and ask them if they can find you a new roommate. Now, don't just say it's because you don't like them or they're mean to you. Establish that your roommate(s) is/are keeping you from being able to study, sleep, etc., whatever that problem may be. If they drink in the dorm (if it's legal, and all ppl in the room have to be above the drinking age or everyone there gets in trouble), tell them that. If they smoke, tell them that and also that their habit is distracting you from what you need to do. Your point in college is to learn and if your roommate is preventing you from doing so, then leave. If they're being just plain stupid, make it sound like they're disrupting you, but also be honest. You can try and wait until the end of the semester, but I did that and it was just (I usually don't use the expression) hell.
Also, if you're willing to pay the money you can try to get a single room.
Anyway, college is so awesome and is so much better than high school. The classes are quite a bit faster paced than high school and there's more to them, but unless you get a crappy teacher (which I did only once) the professors are typically much smarter than most high school teachers. You can, to a certain degree, pick your schedule so you can have most of your classes in the morning, or later in the day, or have a break in between morning and evening. Also, for the most part, it's like you've been given a clean slate. There are a lot people who don't know you and so you get the chance to establish yourself without any pre-conceived ideas, unless you go to school with a lot of your friends (which I didn't).
BTW: Thanks for moving this to the lounge. I wasn't thinking too well when I put it in the Newbie forum.
....that was a rather lost post for 2:15 am... WBTB... the things I do for lucid.
-Amé
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