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18 Signs your Freshman Dorm room was Small AF But Also A Rite Of Passage

It's both a struggle and something you gotta do

Abigail Rose Fuller

Jul 03, 2018

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18 Signs your Freshman Dorm room was Small AF But Also A Rite Of Passage

Abigail Rose Fuller

College comes with lots of change and fond memories and freshman year is an iconic time in the college experience. You know what's also iconic.... LIVING IN AN ACTUAL SHOEBOX. I don't know who is in charge of building dorms but I swear college dorm rooms are toying with the line of insanity. If you had a nice college dorm room please sit down and listen. [cue Law and Order SVU music] *dun* *dun*

1. You look at tiny homes for space saving inspiration

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2. You have nicknames for your dorm

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The Closet? The Sack? Shoebox?

3. On move in day you tried to keep a positive attitude

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but you were sorta disappointed.

4. You find creative ways to bring up your small room in conservation

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5. You have to give yourself a date to stop complaining about it

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6. The room use to be a closet or a bathroom

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or really anything but a dormroom

7. It gets messy SUPER easily

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8. It is never the room the gang hangs out in

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9. Your stuff sometimes sprawls out into the hallway

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10. Whenever you buy something you think, “is it going to fit?"

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11. Your bed is lofted... whether you like it or not

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12. You have fallen off your lofted bed

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13. You sometimes get jail cell vibes

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thanks, cinderblocks!

14. Fights sometimes breakout between roommates due to close quarters

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ILY! HAGS! XOXO!

15. Clothes, chargers, and school supplies seem to jump from side to side

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by the end you don’t even know what is yours anymore

16. You still cried when you moved out

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there is something especially depressing about an empty room

17. You go home and feel like a queen

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SO MUCH EXTRA SPACE

18. BUT you made so many memories in such a small space

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In the end, I wouldn’t have wanted to live anywhere else.

Thanks, University housing!

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It's both a struggle and something you gotta do

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3. On move in day you tried to keep a positive attitude

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5. You have to give yourself a date to stop complaining about it

6. The room use to be a closet or a bathroom

7. It gets messy SUPER easily

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9. Your stuff sometimes sprawls out into the hallway

10. Whenever you buy something you think, “is it going to fit?"

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14. Fights sometimes breakout between roommates due to close quarters

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16. You still cried when you moved out

17. You go home and feel like a queen

18. BUT you made so many memories in such a small space

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