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- Your walls are made of cinder blocks…like in prison.
- Your windows have bars on them…like in prison.
- You’re not allowed to own candles or a toaster…like in prison.
- Part of your morning routine is running the shower for 15 minutes before it actually gets warm.
- Random insects visit your room just as much as your friends do.
- Your window A/C unit was not built in this century.
- You and your roommate have to huddle in the same corner of the room to get a WiFi signal.
- The combination of low ceilings and your top bunk have led to at least three concussions.
- You can only open your windows 6 inches.
- There are three toilets for 45 different people, and one of them is always clogged.
- You’ve heard people masturbating in the communal showers on multiple occasions.
- Winters feel like an Antarctic voyage, and summers feel like you’re trapped in the Devil’s boxer-briefs.
- Your RA regularly scolds you for showing up drunk, but still tries to be your friend the next day.
- The showers always look like Cousin It just came through.
- You had a whiteboard on your door for a total of two days before you got tired of erasing the penis drawings.
- It might be the smell, or it might be the creepy atmosphere, but either way you’re convinced that someone died in your building.
- You’ve busted your ass on laminate tile floors more times than you’d like to admit.
- Your younger siblings laughed their asses off when your family dropped you off the first time.
- Whenever you tell people where you live, they give you a genuine look of concern.
- You’re a grown adult, but you still have to sneak your hookups out in the morning.
- You’re convinced that the school furnished the room with the most uncomfortable chairs ever created just to spite you.
- Cooking in the community kitchen is hopeless because the oven hasn’t been cleaned in a decade.
- The elevator sounds like it’s about to drop you to your death every time you use it.
- You’re not sure how it’s possible, but somehow they managed to stock the bathrooms with 1/2 ply toilet paper.
- There’s one person on your floor who spends an uncomfortably large amount of their time naked in the bathroom.
- There’s a fire drill every other day, and they always seem to happen when you’re not fully dressed.
- You started apartment hunting for next year a week after you moved in.
- Your neighbor always seems to host Super Smash Bros. tournaments exclusively on nights before you have exams.
- You’re genuinely surprised when you don’t see or smell urine when you enter the building.
- You’d rather eat the hallway cockroaches than risk it with the attached dining hall.
- Your paper thin walls guarantee that you’ll hear every detail when your neighbor gets lucky.
- The washing machines should be called “slosh your clothes around in dirty water” machines.
- The dryers are nothing more than a creative way for you to waste $1.25 in precious quarters.
- Your mattress is as comfortable as sleeping on an XL-Twin sized pile of broken glass and rocks.
You had A/C? Lucky bastard
11 years ago at 6:06 pmYour parents not loving you enough to put you in the nice dorms TPoorM
11 years ago at 6:13 pmGod damn SFPL, you’re just so fucking funny every time
11 years ago at 6:23 pm“5. Random insects visit your room just as much as your friends do.”
Look on the bright side. At least your room was insect free.
11 years ago at 6:32 pmThis was written about Bates House at South Carolina…look it up
11 years ago at 6:34 pm^
11 years ago at 1:24 amSpot on
11 years ago at 11:48 amOr Columbia Hall.
11 years ago at 5:07 pm35. Those “Random Insects” came from SFPL’s lice-infested mop
11 years ago at 6:42 pm1. It’s a school dorm.
11 years ago at 7:06 pmList done.
Wait, are the walls cinder blocks or paper thin? Oh, and get a haircut yada yada yada.
11 years ago at 7:08 pmWas this supposed to be funny or was it supposed to be informative? It was neither.
11 years ago at 7:58 pmAt least we have an insect-free dorm.
11 years ago at 8:22 pm