College Life: Do’s and Don’ts in the Dorm Zoo
Living in the dorms is an experience you’ll never forget – although sometimes you may wish you could! Here are some things you definitely want to make sure you do, and some you seriously don’t!
Do…
- use Superman/Minnie Mouse sheets.
- personalize your space.
- close the blinds at night (unless you’re on the 27th floor).
- use your closet.
- keep your microwave and TV on a table.
- let your mom send you a care package.
- remember to check your mail.
- watch out for cafeteria food.
- buy your roommate a gift for no reason.
- call your mom and dad.
- play fun pranks on your friends (like duct-taping their door shut).
- remember your roommate’s birthday.
- nap whenever possible, except during class.
- go to Wal-Mart.
- get a fish.
- avoid dining hall food if at all possible.
- sell your books back ASAP, mo’ $$$.
- believe the prof when (s)he says to study, (s)he means it!
- eat breakfast.
Don’t…
- wallpaper the cinderblock walls.
- sleep in your roommate’s bed.
- fill in old holes in the wall with blue toothpaste.
- keep your CPU on the floor (too much dust).
- leave your underwear on the floor.
- have spitting contests on the window ledge.
- sleep through a final.
- tell an R.A. that you need to get 24 bottles of a beverage from the mailroom for a “gathering” tonight.
- eat your roommate’s food.
- hang your underwear all over the room because someone of the opposite gender might show up unexpectedly.
- set your room on fire.
- attack anyone with the fire extinguisher.
- get a hamster, they’re too noisy.
- leave hair in the shower.
- put a cigarette on the couch.
- ever eat anything with the word “surprise” in it.
- borrow clothes without asking.
- play Def Leopard at 3 a.m., not cool.
- wait until 30 minutes before the test to buy a Scantron, there won’t be any left.
