When considering living in a RV in college, it is best not to overlook your colleges' location . Living in a RV in college is best done in the southern half of the United States. Living in a RV while in college can still be done in the northern half of the United States and Canada, but the complexity and expense of trying to live in and heat an RV in this region would not be worthwhile.

Living in a RV is very different than living in a house in the winter. A house has underground fresh water and waste disposal lines, while the fresh water and waste disposal lines in a RV are aboveground and exposed to the elements.

There are a few ways of dealing with the freshwater and sewage disposal lines in the winter. One method, the one I use, is to constantly run a small trickle of water in the bathroom sink, while keeping the grey water waste holding tank valve open so that the water is free to run directly into the sewer hose and into the RV parks sewer. Running a small trickle of water constantly prevents the fresh water hose and the sewer hose from freezing, and thus you always have running water available to you with a minimum of effort. Some may call this method wasteful of water, so I will leave it up to the reader to decide.

Another way of assuring running water in your RV during the winter is to heat tape your fresh water hose. Heat tape is just what it sounds like, tape that is wrapped around your water hose. This tape has a plug on one end that is plugged into an electrical outlet, heating the tape up. The drawback to this method is that you do not have water constantly running in your sewer hose, so you must put it into a storage compartment when not in use, or it will crack and split from cold tempratures.

Finally, providing you have a fresh water tank that is either on the inside your RV or heated, you can fill your the fresh water tank up with fresh water, and use that for the running water into your trailer. Drawbacks to this method include low water pressure due to the pump that has to pump water from your RV's fresh water tank to your faucet, and the fact that you must connect and disconnect both the fresh water hose and sewer hose whenever you need to use them, or they will crack and split. It must be said that connecting and disconnecting these hoses every few days in subfreezing weather would become very tiresome quickly.