I moved out of dorms asap, 2nd semester. It was myself, my roommate from the dorm, and another friend in a 3 br apartment. Overall I saved a lot of my parents’ money, as they were supporting me.

Looking back, even though most of the money was coming from my parents, getting off campus was a great real world education in personal finance. Utilities, rent, groceries, equitably splitting bills with roommates, battling a landlord over security deposit…

Show your dad you’re responsible enough to handle all that. He will be so proud of you, probably buy you the car next year. Also he’d be totally ashamed if the RA got you suspended for smoking weed on campus. Apartments don’t have RAs.