GET OUT AND ENJOY YOURSELF!
i can't tell you how my dorm would empty out on weekends as all the local people would go home. since you live only an hour away the tempation would be great (along with your parents nearly forcing you) but sometimes weekends are a good time to go out and do things with your floormates that never leave (like me, since i'm from up north.)
ucla grad, 2003. ahh i miss school sometimes. i miss the dorms too - lived in sproul my first year, and then sunset my second and third years. and they've redone all the dining halls.
although i feel bad for the rieber and hedrick people, since the hedrick hole is sitll there i believe and there's still massive construction going on.