Nobody tells you the hardest part of moving into a dorm isn’t the paperwork or the shared bathroom. It’s the

There’s a version of dorm decorating where you spend four hundred dollars on matching sets from the same three websites

The floor is the first thing you step on every morning. It’s the surface where you sit when the desk

The desk you’re assigned when you move into a dorm room is, without exception, a beige rectangle with the personality

Nobody tells you that the cinder block wall is load-bearing to the entire aesthetic. Not structurally — the building’s fine

Here is a thing nobody tells you before move-in day: the theme isn’t decoration. It’s a decision about who you

Nobody tells you this before move-in day: the bed is the room. In a dorm, there’s almost nothing else. A

The standard dorm setup is a masterclass in institutional indifference. A bare mattress on a metal frame. One overhead light