Like every other incoming freshman at Mississippi State, I wanted to live in a new construction dorm. I wanted my own bathroom and a bigger room. Why live in an older building with community bathrooms when you have such nice dorms just down the street?

So when I found out I was Sessums, a traditional hall, I was less than thrilled. Sessums doesn't have a great reputation with students on campus and hasn't for a long time, we all know the nicknames and if you don't you will soon enough and sure enough, it lives up to most of the stereotypes.

Much like Sessums, the other traditional style residents' halls have the same bad rep attached to them. Like, it's always loud and smells like weed and is really run down. But after living in a traditional dorm for a whole semester and then some, I realized that I really have a great hall to live in.

With all the negative stigmas that surround living in traditional, there are some amazing perks. Unlike a lot of people in new construction, I actually know the people I live around (you kind of get to know a lot about a person when you have to shower so close to them) and I've made so many amazing friends just by living here.

I love hanging out in the lobby with my friends until like 2 A.M. You're also more central to campus living in a traditional dorm, like the union and most of the classrooms, which is super convenient on days when it rains or is ridiculously hot outside. The truth is, I really love living in a traditional hall.

I love most of the people I live around and I feel like I've actually gotten the "real" college freshman experience.

If you're reading this and you're going to be a freshman or just going to live on campus again, you should seriously consider living in a traditional style dorm. You might just learn to love it, no matter how many things there are wrong with it.