Living in dorms makes us smarter

This is the first time that i am living in a dorm,away from home, with someone whom I didn't know. You know, its actually quite an experience and one gets to learn so much that it eventually makes one smarter. In dorms the life you lead is just so different. Your mother is not there to be telling you to take a bath and to study etc etc.What you do here is just what you want to do by your own will.Dorm life in other word teaches you the way of life and most importantly how to be independent.

I have changed quite a lot since I came here to Drexel, and that too in a way that i think has made me smarter and more quick at handling situations.Living in a dorm room, one has to learn to adjust and adapt to a lot of things.Things varying from moving in, to arranging your own room the way you like it, to living with someone new and then following the code of conduct of the dorms, that is, adapting to the noise levels, and then maintaining the silence hours etc. In dorms, another thing i learnt was to do my laundry(for a fact, i quite enjoyed the sight of clean clothes!)and also to cook. I also learnt how to interact with my floor mates through the very interactive parties organized by our RA(its quite a nice concept of having floor parties in which everybody cooks and interacts and then eats together.). Dorm life kind of makes you street smart.You learn how to tackle difficult people, you learn whom you have to talk to and whom you just have to ignore(which in my life dictionary is a very important lesson everyone must learn at some point in their life) and you learn how to be aware of your surroundings and what people are doing around you at all times.

All these new learnings have instilled in me individual and social skills, whihc are very essential to survive in this big bad world.So it is not only important to have educational skills to be successful in life. One has to learn to be interactive, socially inclined and most importantly one has to be true to onself along with being intelligent, which i think i have learnt to be after coming to Drexel.So i can proudly say:Drexel has taught me to be smarter!