I lived in Carroll Hall when I was a freshman and then I moved to Watauga when I was a sophomore.
I moved off campus my junior and senior year.
Carroll Hall was an experience that I wouldn't trade for the world.
I would never go back and live there now but when I was living there I learned how to live with ten other girls,
for one, or nine other girls. I guess I was the tenth.
You leave your room
and you can go walk to the cafeteria, it's about a block away,
and that experience alone is something you'll never have again in your life, really.
I mean I guess you can live next to a bakery or something later,
but being able to get up in the morning and go get your breakfast, you pull out your books from your book bag and you're studying for class.
You see other people that live in your suite or your dorm or the next residence hall, they're there too,
and you just have this big community that you don't even realize that you're a part of,
and you can't have that off campus. It would be impossible.
Basically you walk to and from your class to your dorm and in that commute you experience so many things,
so many giveaways for example, tons of free food on the Brickyard and across campus,
tons of educational opportunities and chances to talk with people that you've met because you lived on campus.
So, yeah, it was a pretty cool experience. Watauga is near the design school so my second year it was pretty different, being near the design school, little more quiet.
I was a little more focused on trying to make the grades so that worked out for me, but Carroll Hall and the "Tri-Towers" is where it's at.