1. You are sharing a cell (not a bedroom, not a dorm room, A CELL) with one to four people.

2. You have to get used to carrying a key for your room and bathroom and your ID to get into your building (and you're screwed if you get locked out of either one and the RA isn't around).

3. All the freedom you had to run around at home, suddenly gets reduced to a 3-by-3-foot space.

4. Your closet space gets reduced to a small hole in the wall.

5. The heat is always on... even in the spring/summer.

6. Noise travels... and I do mean ALL noise.

7. Don't even get me started on the shower sex in the freshman dorms (abandoned used condoms and all).

8. You lose the freedom to walk around naked in the privacy of your own room.

9. Sometimes freshman dorms don't have elevators and you have to use the stairs to get to the microwave, mail, and laundry room that are on the first floor or basement (to the Monmouth students who live on the third floor of Elmwood, myself having lived on the third floor of Elmwood freshman year, I salute you).

10. You start to wonder if prison cells could actually be better than your freshman dorm.