Your freshman dorm has given you countless reasons to whine but when it comes time to graduate to better housing, you’re saying goodbye to a whole lot more than your shoebox of a room.
1. All of the furniture is broken or damaged. There’s nothing you can do to it that someone else hasn't already done.
2. The locks on the doors don’t always work, thus mandating an open door policy. You’ll miss walking in to find your friends have made themselves at home.
3. On the off chance that your lock does work, it locks you out in your towel. Fortunately, your neighbors are always willing to share a fresh change of clothes.
4. Living in a room that small taught you to effectively maximize your space, and you aren’t quite ready to give that gift up.
5. You’ll miss spending your mornings and nights with th “bathroom” friends that you made in your hall.
6. Everyone in a freshmen dorm is equally oblivious, so you’re allowed to ask other people what time they’re going to The Row.
7. You’ve never had to set an alarm because the basketball players upstairs give you your wake up call when they jump down from their loft beds.
8. You’ll also have to download Spotify, now that you're losing the Hootie and the Blowfish fans upstairs. You know, the ones with the really loud speakers.
9. Everyone in your dorm has the same food options, so it’s always easy to find out the menu in Burwell. And you trust them when they tell you it isn’t particularly tasty.
10. And in the case of inclement weather, the hall shares a box of Cheez-Its for dinner.
11. You complain about walking up the stairs, but then you remember the conversations you had in the stairwells and how popular they made you feel.
12. The lighting in freshman dorm hallways is similar to the lighting in a photo studio. You always look on point in your going-out photographs.
13. You could rely solely on your sense of smell for navigation: each hall has a distinct smell, and, the closer you get to the boys’ halls, the more rank the odor.
14. Around 3:00 every Friday, the entire vibe of the dorm changes.
15. The vibe changes again Saturday morning.
16. Say what you will, but you’ll secretly miss the Friday night fire alarms set off by freshmen who can’t help but burn their microwave popcorn.
17. To be honest, the pillow talk with your roommate always solved the world’s problems.
