If you're reading this it's too late to go back now and ask for an non-lofted bed. It's been an extraordinary, tiring, but still lit first week of classes. After a full day of meal plans, studying, slight turn ups, and listening to professors, nothing tops coming "home" and lying down in your bed. For me and college students across the nation, beds are elevated with a skateboard shaped wood plaque in place so we won't die.
But seriously though, living in a lofted bed is what I imagine Hercules' life was like in Mount Olympus you get an aerial view of your prison sized dorm room. A lofted bed also includes many new dilemmas that only college can include like nothing else.
The following are a few of those new changes:
Entering/Exiting your bed
Is there a ladder on both sides of your bed? Yes, but that very ladder slices the arches of your feet while the steps have an unsettling amount of space between one another. So before each and every time you decide to go up or down from your bed you stop briefly and ask yourself, "Do I truly want this?"
Making your bed
This alone should become an Olympic event. If it did, I would become Simone Biles because of the new moves I've invented to fulfill this task. Reaching to the two furthest corners of your bed takes every once out of a person. My advice: placing everything between your bed and the wall as a holding area and work from there.
Inner debate on whether you truly have to go to the bathroom
Before college you could freely wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom without any hesitation. Now since you're elevated the bathroom isn't a hop, skip and jump away isn't a pitch black trail where you'll run into random edges until you reach the motion censored lights which lead you to the promise land. The best part is that you have to go back and do that all over again.
Dropping something on the floor
My first night my decorative pillow fell on the floor and it felt like I saw it fall down in slow motion. Like entering and exiting your bed when something falls off your bed if it's not your body, phone, laptop, or a liquid it can stay there until you come down again. Truly determine how important it is to you before reaching for it.
Charging your phone or laptop at night
Wires, outlets, and extension cords, oh my! This is a case by case basis situation where you need to plan out what cords can stretch and what can't. When it comes to cords less is better, so just keep that in mind and also don't forget to set an alarm clock.
