Living Alone or Living with Roommates

Living Alone or Living with Roommates
Nowadays, a lot of attention has been drawn to the issue of whether college students should live alone outside the campus or live together with other roommates in the students’ dormitory. Opinions are divided on this issue. Those who are in favor of living with roommates have their own advantages. With several students sharing the same room, they could learn how to tolerate the difference between individuals. However, others argue that students who live outside campus could have their own timetable without disturbing others. Additionally, they could be more mature for their experience could be greatly enriched in real world. Especially for international students, they can fit in to the new environment much faster for they live in the real world so that they could become independent. In other words, they could adjust themselves quite well when they leave campus to work. As far as I’m concerned, I prefer to live off campus for I have three reasons.
First of all, people need to acquire the ability to solve the problems, professors usually spoon-feed the students; they give instruction to students how to solve the problems; however, these solutions must be adjusted according to the different environment in the practice; students cannot learn the alternative or adjusting method in the campus, they can only figure it out in the real live by themselves. For example, one of my friends, Dan, was so shy that he rarely talked to people before he lived off campus. I still remembered when he lived in campus; he was the person who just knew how to study. After living off campus, he became outgoing. I am so surprised for his change. He told me that everything became different when he lived off campus. He realized he is a real adult. He learned how to cook and how to arrange the monthly budget. Most importantly, he learned how to live in real world. He found many things that are as equally interesting as study. He began to think about how