First and foremost, THANK YOU FOR POSTING HERE! Too many young people look into animal adoption without knowing what they are getting themselves into. So, consider yourself awesome!

Now, I can speak to you as someone that had a pet snake in college and killed it. I adopted a very young (too young, looking back) ball python from a reptile show my freshman year in college. There are several problems that arise with this environment that are not good for snake ownership.
1. Everyone wants to see your snake. And handling/new environment = big stress for a snake, which can lead to bigger problems.
2. Most dorms would not even consider allowing you to have an animal, and if you think that you'll be able to hide it (I did), trust me when I say that nothing that happens in a dorm stays secret for long. And until you're a junior, some colleges make living in a dorm mandatory.
3. If you go to college and your RA finds out about it and you have to take the snake home, are your parents cool with taking care of it? My mom is cool with my breeding business but she wouldn't feed a python if it was her last day in this world.
4. Controlling the ambient temp in a dorm is next to impossible. And it's a big deal. My snakes have an entire room in my little house dedicated to them. Heated and finely controlled throughout the year. Humidity also, can be an issue. You'll be spraying twice a day during the winter if you live up north. I do that WITH a humidifier in place.
5. College is a big time for you, good, bad, and ugly, and your snake may not adjust as well as you. And with classes (SO much tougher than high school), extra currics, parties, and hall activities, and the part time job you'll probably want, you may not notice anything bad happening until it's too late.

That's what happened to me. Looking back and knowing what I know now, it was a bad idea. An uncontrolled environment and my lack of real attention killed my first baby who started refusing food and developed an RI that killed him before I knew what was what.

When I graduated and moved into my own apartment I got a new snake, and before I knew it I had 10. I'm 25 now and run a breeding business of 60 snakes with my fiance. We love them all to death and dedicate a lot of time and work to them. But I always remember my first snake that I buried in the back of my dormitory because the situation got out of hand.

I did have a really fun time breeding bettas in my dorm though.