Believe it or not, there are some weekend activities on campus that don't involve long bathroom lines and black bell-bottoms. Whether it's a weekend ski trip or a pizza party during The Simpsons , dorm life offers activities to get students away from their PlayStations and into their floor's social scene. Such events are as much cultural as they are social. Such events help the advantages of dorm life outweigh the negatives.
Activities make it a lot easier to meet other people.
Instead of just concentrating on trying to make conversation, you are doing an activity. Heckencamp, along with about 15 fellow floor members, goes ice skating at the Ice Arena every Sunday afternoon. As usual, the resident adviser takes charge in organizing the event for floor residents. I think the RA needs to be responsive to the needs of the group they're trying to program for. In addition to floor events, most dorms offer building-wide social activities.