Spehss_ Ninja: Maybe you could try jogging? Buy weights and use them at home? Swimming?
Jogging doesn't work upper body muscles, or at least not arm muscles, as far as I'm aware. And considering the distances I'll have to walk regularly to go from dorm to classes back to dorm to garage and back, complete with all the stairs on my college campus, I doubt I'll need to jog to get a regular cardio and leg workout.
buying my own weights is probably out, as I don't have the money or anywhere to store them in the dorm. Got two ten pound dumbbells stored somewhere back at my parents', but that's too much of a drive just for weights. Especially not for ten pound weights.
Swimming is out. It's just as public of a thing as going to the rec center/gym. Plus...I, uh, never learned to swim. I was a lame ass kid who didn't want to get water in his eyes in the lessons, and quit the lessons. Also I remember I didn't like learning with a group of kids I never met before.
Prolly just gonna have to suck it up and get over my horrible fear that everyone in the gym will be constantly silently judging me and go do gym stuff. It's probably an irrational fear I need to get over anyway. Probably mostly irrational.
Well, that's the college experience, I guess. Do new things, learn new stuff, go super far out of your comfort zone, yaaaaaaay.