Taking dolls to school or college?

Well yeah..I suppose that's how it is there...But here, everyone is too scared to touch my stuff >:] BWUAAHH!! It's pretty funny actually.

Besides, I never planned on pulling him out. It's just a safety factor..

I would probably end up being paranoid about leaving him at home, (Because my dad and sister are there) and nobody knows about him!!

If someone from school damaged my doll(s), I would make their face accidentaly hit my fist =D
But they'd probably be too freaked out about it to go near it.. BWUAHA! And besides..I don't care what others think..xD


Melaidhrin;; Ah...lucky. If only my sister was as nice as your roommate ==

 

I keep my dolls in my dorm room. We have three tiered desks so they sort of over look our mess... ^_^;. My room mate really doesn't even give them a second glance. Though, we are both really paranoid about keeping our door locked all the time, she worries about her laptop, even though the suite door locks automatically and we live in a back room.

 

This past year I brought Ciaran in to school with me. I kept him in his bag on the bus ride over and left him in the art room (in his bag) for most of the day. Idoru brought her doll Edan in that day too so I didn't look too weird. I DID bring him to lunch with me though, so my other friends could see him and they LOVED him. One of them made him wave at some preppy girls that were staring and pointing at him XD But yeah, I had a pretty good experience bringing him to school. All of my friends like him and I didn't get any mean comments from anyone. I guess it all just depends on where you go to school and who goes there...?
....If I end up in a dorm in college I am DEFINITELY taking him with me, no questions asked. He means a lot to me! :3

 

In Malaysia, schools (not colleges or universities) have very strict rules about bringing recreational objects to class as school is about studies, not playing. At least this was the case with mine. Unless the object is supposed to be a prop in a play or something, it will be confiscated if you're caught. And the schools does bag checks quite frequently. I'm not exactly sure what are the steps you're supposed to take to get them back as all the stuff that was taken from me was of no real value.

So big SD sized doll, real big nono.

 

I've taken my doll to school, but every one thought she was weired.

 

haha me too. and then one person abused my dolly(testing head joints, anyone?) and she's never appeared in school again ._.

 

I'm in college now, and I brought my doll with me. I haven't had any troubles. My roommate thought he was kind of creepy, which I expected, but since then everything's been fine. Though, she still calls him a girl, and I just don't have the heart to correct her. xD

 

Alright, bear with me. I'm going to try to make my questions as unintrusive as possible.

Lately I've been going through the arduous process of college selections and applications. As I was assessing my picks and why I chose them I began to wonder: What about a dollie community?

For example, two of my college choices are Dartmouth or Swarthmore (New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, respectively). When I took the tours of these schools I highly doubted the tour guides would actually be able to answer my questions concerning these things, and mentioning these details wouldn't be very high on the admissions "to-do" list. Now, obviously, whether there are doll owners in the area is not going to make or break my decisions. Still, it did get me wondering.

Do many of you (those that attend college) keep your dolls with you? Are you afraid of someone in your dorm possibly messing with your dolls? And are there a lot of other doll owners attending/living near your college? Is it easy to run out for a quick meet-up?

Again, sorry if this questions seem a little intrusive. You don't have to give specifics. I was just curious.

 

well... i was a college student... and i did live in the dorms for a year... at UC it really depends on what kind of roommate you have. i didn t have dolls at the time... but i tend to worry about my stuff from time to time like with new room mates.. cuz you never know when your room mate will be there with their friends or if your room mate goes thru your stuff... etc. etc. if you want to bring ur doll... i would suggest lock it in a chest or something if you are worried about it getting destroyed or knocked over or someone playing them without your permission when you're not around.

 

I live in a university residence, have for five years. I have three dolls in rez, and my roommates love them. I lock my room whenever I'm not there, and no one has any problems with going in and touching them or anything.

Also, you'll be surprised how many people in the area have dolls - my best friend does, and we've found three others randomly. Plus one of my friend's roommates one year had one, and one of my roommates this year is planning on getting one. So it's really not that isolated, even when you live in a tiny, isolated college city like I do. It's entirely possible.

 

I'm currently a college student in the Uk, but live at home. As far as I know there are only two other people in the area who own dolls, none of which go to my college~

Even though I live at home, I do take at least one of my boys in with me everyday. They sit on the table next to me during lectures, teachers dont seem to mind at all. I dont think I'd leave them alone in the dorms though, if I did I'd lock them somewhere safe for sure, if you share a room with someone you never know what might happen if they bring they're friends back and your dolls are out on display.

 

I live in no-where's-ville. College Station TX, and there is a small, but active community here...quite to my surprise. A doll community didn't influence my decision at all on where I would go to college...but luckily there is one here. So we do many meet ups now and then and it's really fun. So if there is one here, I'm sure there will be one in each of those cities ^^

And as far as roommates go...I discussed with mine that I was getting a doll..and asked her if she would be comfortable with it...[since we share a room, and sometimes people are phobic when it comes to dolls] and yes..she was very respectful. If you have a shady roommate..you can request a roommate change, but I doubt anyone would mess with your doll unless they were just a-holes. >>;; Usually people tend to stay away from them...especially if they don't know what they are. My roommate is uncomfortable with holding mine..because she's worried she'll break him.

 

I'm at UCF and have my baby with me. I was kinda surprised to find others on campus that also had dolls. The one thing to keep in mind is what kind of roommate you have. I know you probably won't know who they are at first, but if you find out they are ok with dollies, then you can find a way to bring them with you. If not, it's best to leave them at home. I do love taking Aiden to classes with me, though~

 

I'm also livinng on campus but our buildings are like little apartments which you share with one person or three depending on your decision. I have only one roommate and we have our seperate rooms so it's not a big problem to me. Actually my roommate knows about my dolls and she likes them really much. Especially the little ones stole her heart. I haven't met anyone who has a doll here but who knows...It's been just two months since I came here =P We have our monthly checks but they let us know the date before they came in so I just hide my dolls in wardrobe and I'm done.

 

When I did the dorm living thing at AI of Chicago I didn't have a doll. But I have since learned there are a few students attending that have both resin and vinyl dolls.

I knew my room mate from high school so it lessened the blow and I never cared much if she were using my things but I'd always cringe when I'd come home to see her friends using my game systems or pawing through my books and movies without even the slightest glance in my direction. I couldn't imagine leaving the doll I now have alone in a dorm setting. I'd probably have hid him in my closet or something. Or locked him in my file cabinet.

Then again, I have to take into consideration that I had only one room mate. Suite living can put you in with as many as six or eight people.... Can you imagine having that many room mates plus their friends to worry about? Yikes.

Even now I'd never dream of taking my doll to class with me or anything like that, even though I know some people enjoy taking dolls to school or work. It is a personal thing but since I have very small class sizes it just doesn't sit well with me. Some of my professors know I have him, and have seen him, but not during class times.

 

When I lived in the dorm my freshman year I only had a Volk's Who's That Girl Doll. She lived on my desk and my roommate said it creeped her out, so I was afraid of her possible reaction to bigger dolls. Now I live off campus in an apartment and all of my dolls are here.

 

-pokes polaris- Heeey..swathmore....-cough- Nope. Totally not near me. Nope. -shifty eyes- Anyway, I'm going to a really big college (-cough- Which is so totally not really close to Swathmore. Nope...not me...-cough-)..and I commute. So I really don't know if anyone in the dorms is into BJD- but I'm new to this so it didn't have any bearing on my decission. But me, personally? If I lived on campus and had dolls..I wouldn't take them with me. The city my college is in, well, it's notorious for crime. I wouldn't want to risk it. I have friends in the dorms and I see how people wander in and out of each other's rooms, and the locals are pretty shady (most of them). Too risky for me. But, I do know that Swathmore is smaller than mine (don't know anything about NH colleges/areas) and Swathmore is a lot safer- at least, general area wise. You'd have to make the call people wise. (And hey, if you choose Swathmore, let me know! it'd be nice to know that someone in the area is into BJD. I'd totally do meet ups). But yea, most colleges let you meet your roomate(s) before classes begin, and they usually give you some way of contacting your roomate even earlier. If your roomate is cool with it, then go for it and have your dolls out with you. But you really have to watch it. Because if dolls freak your roomate out, or you get in a huge argument, they might get hurt. Also, if your roomate is cool with it, and you bring your dolls, I'd recommend making sure doors get locked behind each other. People really do like to wander from room to room. If you're on a floor with nice people, who like to see the dolls, that's great because then you can convert them to bjd-ism. But I wouldn't want to risk bad things happening. But then, I am close enough to my school that leaving dolls home isn't a problem because I could see them everyday.

 

That's really cool that you're *cough* totally not *cough* close to Swarthmore! xP But I never even thought about what might happen if I get into a fight with my roommate! Ohh geez. Not that I'm a very argumentative person in general, I just never even considered if I got a particularly malicious roommate.

 

I'm at the Savannah College of Art and Design(Henceforth, SCAD), and I was really pleasantly surprised by the number of active, involved dolly-people here! I Love my SCAD Dorrie People! We're a bunch of crazies, honestly.

I brought down my four little ones for my first semester, and I invested in a large locking steel trunk. I put pillows in the bottom (It looks like a little bed nook x3), and my kids all easily lay down inside, secure and well-protected. I talked with my rooommate about my doll hobby before we met up, and she was cool with them.

For a while they stayed only in the trunk and came out for meets and then went back in. After a while, though, I became comfortable with having them stay out. They're comforting to have around, and even though I'm too busy to play with them and mess with them every day, waking up to see their little faces and pat their heads as I walk out the door has been really relaxing in a stressful college environment. My roommate even said, "You should bring your dolls out more often. They're sweet, and they make you happy!" (XD I love her!)

At the same time, it's really reassuring to know that, should guests come over, I have a really, really secure place to put them and they won't get damaged. And it was good to have the trunk, just in case my roommate DID have a thing against dolls, I could safely lock them up, and it gave me a chance to make sure my dolls would be well-received.

Now that I know, next semester, my big boys are coming down to play!

 

I'm at a relatively small school in the west part of PA (bout an hour south of Pittsburgh), and so far I havent found any dolly people out here. I dont have one of my own yet (poor college student ya know?), but I think it really depends on your roomies. My roommate and I don't really get along well (to be frank, we pretty much ignore each other), but I don't think she'd mess with any of my stuff (lord knows I've left Rhys, my laptop, out enough for her to mess with him). But I mean, if I did have my Emi and I did have a roommate that I was concerned about, I probably would've left her at home or gotten her a lockable box or something. We dont have closets here to keep her safe in (unfortunately, we have cubbies like in kindergarten) but if you did that'd be another way.