basically, will you be living on campus or in your own apartment? check and see if the apartment allows reptiles. if so, id go the honest route. however, we had no such luck. the place tony lives at allows pets, but does not mention reptiles. so basically we have the snakes set up safely in the closet. the management does not 'check' the apartment unless you have some sort of flooding plumbing or other type problem that interfers with your day to day living. we have our guys set up so that unless you're the really really nosey type you wont know they're there.

if you really don't want to keep your snake at college, i wouldn't purchase anymore animals until you were in a place where you were not likely to move again for a long time, and i mean after school is done.