We definitely got information about our roommates ahead of time and could communicate with them. No shared google docs though.

I got info about my roommate ahead of time but I think we had all of one awkward phone call where we discussed who would bring/buy a fridge and that was about the extent of it. We may have gone in on a rug as well, once we got to school? Not sure. We didn’t get along super well (though not too horrible, I think we barely even ran into each other on campus after freshman year)

I don't remember talking to mine first or getting information about her, but meara and I went to the same school, so I probably did (and I wasn't there THAT much before she was, ha! We did have indoor plumbing and telephone lines...)

Our dorm rooms were pretty generic looking compared to the interior-design-magazine-ready rooms I saw when my niece started college in 2016 (including hers). Those kids' rooms looked better and cozier than my first several apartments. Or, maybe all of my domiciles, including my current house.

Our dorm rooms were pretty generic looking compared to the interior-design-magazine-ready rooms I saw when my niece started college in 2016 (including hers). Those kids' rooms looked better and cozier than my first several apartments. Or, maybe all of my domiciles, including my current house.

Man, SAME. My freshman roommate and I were total gremlins. We had a pile of dirty clothes in the middle of our floor that was epic. We called it "Marjorie," after the talking trash heap in Fraggle Rock.

Oh yeah, maybe we did get in touch with each other ahead of time - I have very vague memories that she paid for the fridge and I paid for the phone?

I was in a triple and, by like November, one girl had moved in full time with her boyfriend at BC and the other had gotten kicked out of the dorms for dealing drugs. I had the room to myself for the rest of the year!

Anyone who can make the dorm rooms at Orchard Hill at UMass Amherst cosy and/or cute would deserve a degree in Design. They are incredible tiny, have built in furniture, are made up of cinder locks, AND don’t have air conditioning.

I can’t imagine what dorm decorating is costing these days. I don’t envy you. We got a notice that all school supplies will be covered by our town this year, and even that little bit of help is such a relief because August is always budget busting with ltc’s birthday in the mix.

Well, this is deeply awful.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ Star, Dies at 54

I just saw that elsewhere. Dana. Terribly sad.

First contact with my first college roommate was when we were both at the dorm (which was made of cinderblock and did not have a/c but you could rearrange the furniture and it came with a phone for the suite which was in our room (so the suitemate on the other side of the bathroom who had a boyfriend somewhere else would always be on the phone with the cord tucked into the gap under the door). We were right next to the laundry room, which was actually kinda nice. My "decor" was my bedspread (which was a red and purple paisley cotton thing from Cost Plus (as World Market was then known) and a red mini-fridge from J C Penney that my parents' thoughtfully provided. My roommate might have had more in the way of stuff to go on the walls, but I don't remember what any of it might have been.