Live in the dorm. I visited my sister for a weekend, and all I have to say is you WILL miss alot. It was fun, especially some of the things that went on down there. Get urself a dorm, and then when you graduate, get that car of your dreams that you have always wanted. Plus in a few years, that 15k dollar Benz may be worth half of what you would pay now.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

The dorm experience is a GOOD thing. College is a time for expanding your horizons and making life long friends. Staying at home would be like ....4 more years of high school.

glenmore

If college life is in any way remotely like I remember, having a car on campus was a PITA. An MB (to me) would seemingly be a target for vandalism every weekend by hordes of drunken malcontents.

Convenient parking on campus was difficult to obtain (even at the dorms), and the campus police probably funded the athletic program simply by the revenue gained by the sheer number of parking tickets issued each day!

Actual vehicle use was limited to returning home after midterms or holiday breaks. Local metro sights and shops outside of campus were accessible by foot or public transportation.

Treat yourself to a Benz after you graduate...you can score with the campus honies w/o the "star" anyway.

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

I agree with the others. I spent the last 5 years while at school at a place about a block away from campus. Used my car less than once per week. Forget about the Benz it is a nice toy for later. You’ll never regret living on or near campus.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

You have the rest of your life for cars. Not so for college life. But then again, that fact that you are thinking about this to such an extent puts you outside of the college mainsteam.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

yeah, get into the co-ed dorms, forget the car, you'll never look back

How close are you to home...if its close save running up the dept and get the benz...college with be over soon enough and while you have a benz and far less debt some of these other fools will have no benz and be up to their ears in debt.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

daumn, i agree with bone.. you can always have a party in the benz! dorms, while fun are not really conducive to studying (isn't that why you're there in the first place) and living in them sucks.. sure parties are good but you can crash those anytime...

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Do the dorm thing. The best experience I had. I happened to live in a dorm with most of my classes in the lower level, talk about sleeping till the last 10 seconds before class started. I was also in a dorm which was co-ed. Women on top and first floor, guys in the middle. Very convenient Party every weekend. Those were the good ole days!!

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95 R129
04 Infiniti G35.5 BS
10 X204

that was my first thought too..

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