Taking dolls to school or college?

I'm a bit past college now, but if I'd had a BJD then, I would have totally taken it with me. I took my stuffed animals and those looked a lot more childish than BJDs! I think my first roomie has a collectable doll of some kind in the dorm. If she didn't have it there, I know I saw her doll collection anyway. (Her family lived close to campus.)

I never worried about being seen as normal, but most of the people I knew weren't all that normal anyway. Everyone had a Thing or two that made them out of the ordinary. (Well, almost everyone. The ones who didn't were spectacularly boring to talk to.) I mean, even the professors had some weird quirks. I figure they had to get the PhD.

I guess what I'm saying is that college is the one place where you should really feel free to be yourself. I can understand not taking a BJD to school because of concerns about theft, but don't let other people's opinions stop you from doing something you love.

(And hey, if you make friends with some theater or design majors, you might get some really sweet doll clothes!)

 

I brought my doll back to my dorm with me when I went home on a visit. My roomate HATED it, it scared her. I would often come back and find my doll turned around because my roomate didn't want it "looking" at her. She also preferred certain wigs that made her seem less scary.

 

I took my former doll (Mythdoll Leroi Snow) to school once. She was a prop for an assignment. XD She had an outfit inspired by Dali paintings.

The teachers who saw her loved her and thought she was cute. Especially her shoes. o_O

 

I'm at my school's dorm at the moment, in the bedroom I share with one of my roommates (I have 7 roommates, haha). My doll is also here, has been for two weeks. Problems? None. I guess it's mostly because I've known my roommate for two years and I KNOW can trust her. Even after she accidentally broke Ivo's hand.

Taking your doll to a dorm is mostly a question of trust, really. If you have roommates that have access to your room, it's always better to know who they are and think if you can truly trust them before leaving them alone with your precious doll.

 

Usually, between roommates, I've noticed a 'no damage' policy. Most roommates I know don't usually mess with stuff their roommates have out. I would advise just set some limits with your roommate. It's all about communication. Some roommates feel free to go through their roommates stuff while others don't even talk to each other. Just remember to set the boundaries, but don't let your roommate choose what your going to do/live.

 

I always take turns to bring my dolls out~ cant hand carry more than 2 at a time :< Its quite fun when i brought my dolls to uni or part time~ all my frens love my dolls... but i'm always worried when they tries to touch their face :< even tho most of my dolls got UV protection.. i try not to expose them too much to sunlight... sigh.. cant help it i guess... my dolls love outdoor... ^ ^;;;

 

Hmmm, i never thought of bringing dolls to college...

 

I brought my doll to campus once and probably never will again. His carrier bad is an extra burden and he also gets dirty more easily

 

I won't be staying at college, but if I was, no way @_@. I'd be wayyy too paranoid. Even though it'd suck not to have her with me, actually... but I'd be really paranoid about it (precious expensive dolls left to the care of strangers @_@)

 

Reading all of this, I'm so glad that I'm in the English university system, where everyone gets their own bedroom (Even in first year) and at worst have to share a bathroom and kitchen with half a dozen others. Halfway through my third year now, and cheerfully living in a proper house with two housemates. I'd feel comfortable leaving pretty much anything lying around in the communal areas of the house, but that's only because these are people that I chose for myself, rather than people the University assigned. In first year, I'd never have dreamt of leaving things in the kitchen - Too much stuff got stolen by odd visitors.

 

No I wouldn't have at least the last half of college. I was in the downtown area for about 90% of the time, talk about dust ! and running to the different builidngs, meetings, nope it wouldn't have worked out. At the end of the day, the doll would've been too heavy to bring around with all the other papers & books, and would've gotten too dirty and possibly damaged / nicked / scarred somewhere.

 

Mmmm...I'll be going off to college this fall, and I haven't made my mind up yet. I went to a summer college program this summer and lived the dorm life for 8 weeks. It was quite an enriching experience, actually, mainly because most of the people rocked. My roommate and friends were awesome, and were all really supportive when I got my first doll there in about the second week there. Needless to say, we were a really close bunch, and that might be rare. We all had fun, and occasionally someone would visit our room and ask why the hell there was a (creepy) miniature...girl (sometimes boy, since Tsukasa's rather feminine). I kept him on my shelf/desk area most of the time...never brought him to class though.
We never had problems with robbery or anything of the sort. Then again, as I mentioned, that might be rare. My roommate and I were best friends and we always kept the door closed and mostly locked for the sake of privacy (and slight paranoia). That said, I've had a good experience, but haven't decided whether or not I'll bring one (or two?) to college with me. It depends on where I end up going, I suppose, as well as doll transport ease. It was so nerve wracking getting Tsukapyon home. Thank god he had a Luts box and some cushion, because I had to check him in. But we got home safely DD

You never know what'll happen. I'd play on the safe side if you're really attached.

 

I go to a very safe university and so I have had a few of my dolls up with me. Never more then two at a time, otherwise it gets hard to keep track of them. For me not bringing them up is more a matter of people always coming in and out of my room, often drunk and I don't want constantly worry about someone getting knocked off a desk or having to constantly field questions about why I have dolls.

 

People think I'm weird enough already, and I can imagine that if I took my doll to school someone would "kill" him or laugh at him. And the teachers would tell me I was being "inappropriate".

They're not everyone's taste, and I would hate having to always explain why I have him and why I like them.
Or I might just start a new hot trend at my school for BJDs - but I doubt that somehow, so he'll be staying safe at home most of the time.

 

I would be afraid to bring my dolls to school. Even when I had my little Bobobie tiny, if anyone saw him, he probably wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds. D:

I go to a public high school that got the 'rear end' of the school funding, and it shows.

For one, our security gaurds will stand there and watch a fight going on, or mingle with the students who skip class, or laugh when they notice that some school property has been vandalized (ex: when we started the construction this year, a few cameras were added in and some of the kids here smashed them on the first day.).

It doesn't help that I'm the 'dorky little white girl with glasses' type. So yeah. Bringing expensive breakables to my school = not a good idea.

 

I don't have a doll yet, but I will have one by the start of next semester, which for me will be my second year of college. I'll have no problem with keeping her in my dorm, because my roommate next year is very careful. Although it's likely I'll carry my doll around, because I'll probably be very clingy with her. Probably no one would say anything to me about it, because I already dress "strangely" (lolita) and it's a very small, open-minded artsy-fartsy college anyway.

 

I am attending college right now, but currently live at home. I tend not to bring my dolls to class as my hands are full and I know that I can't trust all of my classmates. When I transfer schools next year, I suppose I'll bring my SD boy with me. I will either have an apartment or a private room, so he'll be safe. =)

 

If a topic like this already exists, delete this please.

Anyway.

Those of you who are still undergoing some sort of education (highschool, college etc), do you take your dolls to school? If you have, has anything really bad happened?
I'm thinking that it'd be a bad idea cause of people being like "Oh, creepy" and "OOH GIMME GIMME CAN I SEEEEEE?!" and, of course, it's not exactly an awesome environment.

 

I go to TAFE, so most aussies would know of that...but for those who don't, its sort of like community college.

We have keys to the dorms itself so no one can get into the dorms at all unless theyre with someone who lives there, or live there themselves. The rooms are generally single, so roomates aren't a problem.

And then all of the individual rooms have their own keys aswell. So I suppose Ashen would be safe if I left him up there, but he's at home right now. When I finally do end up taking him with me, he'll stay on my person because I'm over-protective of him.

And he'll probably stay at home unless he's participating in an art assignment or taking a trip to my boyfriends house with me after class, or if he has a photo shoot on one of my half-days. So I guess i'll probably be taking him alot.

But not on days when I go to photo-shoots or expeditions with my friends into thee underground. Its dangerous enough trying to map it out and not get lost without having the extra worry of looking after ashen while we're down there. O_o

So, yes on taking him with me, but with special circumstances.

 

I may be going to university in the fall, and since I live alone, I'll have no choice but to pack up my life, shove it in storage, and take a few things with me XD I wouldn't feel right leaving my dolls in a storage container, so I'd be taking them with me. I'm currently looking into getting them insured.