I voted in my home district, but I also lived in my home district since I did not go away to college. In fact, I lived in the same house until I got married, so my answer is not really difficult.
I voted absentee in Minnesota for longer than was probably strictly legal, but definitely through college and my Master's degree. I also kept my driver's license and car registration at my parents' house. It felt easier, and it felt like my vote mattered more because I was living in super blue areas.
I registered to vote the first time in college and voted there. I voted there right after graduation too, even though I lived in IL, because I decided my vote was needed more in WI. Looking back, I’m not sure it was correct or legal, but I didn’t vote in 2 locations.
I voted for the first option, but I only did that once. Freshman year of college, 2000 was my first election, I was barely 18, and came home from college about 45 minutes away to vote in my hometown, where I had registered as soon as I could at 17.5. The 2004 election I had graduated and moved to Texas and voted there.
I was not at all tuned in until 2010 to any elections that weren’t Presidential. Now I feel TOO involved
I registered and voted at my dorm in college (IL) in 2004. they had voter sign ups in the lobby in the months prior to election day and then a polling place in the lobby on election day. I thought that was the way we were supposed to do it because it was our home for more than half the year.
I think most colleges were still open on April 1st for the census date. Obviously it will effect some, but it isn’t any issue for students going home now.
The biggest university in my city was definitely closed before April 1 (about 2 weeks before). I will be interested to see what the Census shows this year, since the student population is something like 20% of the total for the city.
Most universities went home by April 1 or simply didn’t come back after spring break. It’s my understanding that colleges supply the census bureau with data on resident students though, and they did that back in the spring.