PA college student ditches dorms to live in the woods

DormWhatever your college experience was like or is like, it’s probably pretty safe to say it wasn’t much like the experience of Dylan Miller.

A senior at Pennsylvania’s Juniata College, Miller, 22, has opted out of dorm life and instead lives in the woods in a shelter he built by hand.

GrindTV.com recently ran a profile of Miller, who says he was inspired by literary heroes like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He was also inspired by a longstanding interest in survival and primitive camping; he’d actually spent his junior year living out of his car and sleeping in a nearby cave.

Read about the Pennsylvania college student who lives in the woods.

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