Compare and contrast living in an apartment and in the dormitory(final)

My experience of living outside away from my parents has begun since I went to Taipei for study. In the first two year of my university life, I lived in the dormitory. But now I've been living in an apartment with my other four classmates for nearly a year. Of course, both them have advantages and disadvantages simultaneously. I think the differences between living in an apartment and in the dormitory are privacy, cost, and environmental hygiene. Living in an apartment has more privacy than living in the dormitory. Usually, one room in the dormitory contains four or five people at most. And it's an open area that every action could be seen in the eyes of everyone. So if you need more privacy, an apartment offers more personal space than dormitory. However, the costs of living in an apartment are definitely more expensive, which include not only the monthly rents but the extra expenses, such as LNG (liquefied natural gas), eating, and transportation fees. On the campus of NTUST, we students seem to be quite self-contained in some way. We can eat and buy most necessities cheaply without leaving the campus. In contrast with dormitory, things can only be available with the market prices outside. At last, as far as the environmental hygiene, dormitory is better than an apartment. In the dormitory, all we have to do with the garbage is to throw them in the garbage cans, and then someone would take them out for us. However, living in an apartment, we have to do it all by ourselves. So, again, there are advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I would choose a dormitory instead of an apartment. A dormitory is better for me because I don't like commuting.