A new requirement that first-year students live on campus at Eastern Washington University has put a record 2,100 students in the dorms there. The first day of classes began Wednesday at EWU, making it the last local college to start the 2014-15 school year. For a university that sits just 15 miles outside Spokane, there are still many students who travel to class every day from the city. And certain students are exempt from the new “live-on requirement,” which every other university in the region already has in place. But the idea behind the requirement is to increase retention rates and student success/Wilson Criscione, SR. More here. (SR photo by Colin Mulvany: EWU visual communication design student Joe Figg buys his textbooks at the campus bookstore)

Question: Did you live on campus as a college student? Was it a good experience?