Dorm Decorations

I love creepily looking into other people's dorm rooms when their door is opened. From the rooms with Chi O signs plastered everywhere to the ones with posters of Bob Dylan and other music icons, I enjoy inappropriately staring into all of them, Seeing how other people arrange and decorate their room not only gives me ideas on how I could move things around in my room but it can also reveal a lot about the person in it. Initially, our rooms look disgusting and depressing with their white walls, cheep fake wood desks, and cold mismatched tiles. The first few weeks when my walls were bare it drove me crazy and made me even more depressed and homesick than I already was. Then, once I brought posters and little nick nacks from home to decorate with, the room took on a whole new ambiance. I felt much more conformable and the room was much more inviting for me and others. Unfortunately, however, some people's rooms still look pretty scary. My friend Lauren's room still has all of it's stained white walls and cracking tiles exposed. To top it off, her room has gross blue blinds that she hardly ever opens to let the light in. My other friends and I lovingly call her room "the cave" and frequently tell her how uneasy we feel when we are in it. Now, the really bad part about this is that I am going to be the cave woman's roomie next year. I have already vowed to get something on those walls if it's the last thing I do... but then again, nothing on the walls is probably better than the poster of puppies in a pot staring at me with their sad eyes that I have to look at now.

So, I just think it's pretty amazing how just a little bit of decorating can make our freakish looking plain dorms look so nice homely. Those bare walls are also a nice way to express yourself... and not in the Madonna way.