Student housing?

I plan on attending the univerisity of alabama in birmingham in the fall. i want to know the insiders on student housing? what is really like? please give me all the details you can. im really nervous but student housing on campus is all i can afford.

Student housing?
I go to school in DC, and I was nervous at first to, I had never really lived away from home, or in a dorm. Now I love it! Its like having all your best friends living down the hall from you! Its alot of fun, theirs alot of parties( and alot of work too), but if your having a rough time, or you need to studying w/ someone, you can just walk down teh hall or downstairs, or maybe one building over and their right there. It takes some getting used to, I mean you don't get alot of alone time and if you have a communal bathroom that deff. takes getting used to. If your school has a suite style option for freshman where you share a bathroom with like 3 other ppl, that might feel more at home for you. If not don't worry you will adjust. My dorm room now feels like home to me!. I hope this helped!
Reply:The dorms at my school were tiny, noisy, falling apart and the most fun I'd ever had. Take time to shop for space saving items. Get some posters and bedding to jazz up the place and accept the fact that you are going to learn a lot about life just from living in a tiny room with another person and building with up to hunderds of people....
Reply:even as a senior on a tiny campus in PA, i'm still in student housing. my friends all moved down to houses in town, but i'm glad to be close to classes and have people in to clean the bathrooms and stuff so that i don't have to worry about it. sure i'm a farther walk to the bar, but when it gets down to it really, that's the only drawback and living on campus is great.