Dorm Life

Hello, my name is Brian Mercer, and I’m a 3rd year mechanical engineering student here at UCLA and I recently started working in the Systems Unit (where they process all the transcripts and applications). As many of you are gearing up to start school in the fall, I have a feeling you might also be curious about dorm-life at UCLA.  After all, about 92% of incoming freshmen will be living in dorms.  I’ve lived in the dorms for the past two years here, and it’s been an amazing experience. Even though I’ll be moving out into an apartment this year, I’ll always think about and remember the great times I had living on campus, and all of the lifelong friends that I made there.

Living in the dorms on campus is really a once in a lifetime experience. It’s probably the only time in your life where you’ll be able to live in close proximity with potentially nearly 100 of your peers on the same floor. I made almost all of my close friends from the people who lived on my floor, not from classes or other activities I was involved in. And it’s not just about the close friends you’ll make; you’ll meet many new and interesting types of people on your floor. I can’t tell you how many new TV shows I watch, new foods I eat, and new music I listen to and play on my guitar because of the people I lived with while I was in the dorms.