During my freshman year of college, I actually lived on campus at SUNYIT before some issues with the heads of the res-life at SUNYIT made me choose to move back home and commute for my last three years. I still talk to my room mates even though we are now scattered around the US.
One thing that we used to do in our dorm was decorate our closet door in the common area. It started when a flyer was placed on our door promoting a Frisbee RA event on campus. One of my room mates hated it being on our main door, and just put it on the closet door. And that’s how it started.
Once the advertised activities were done, we used to take the flyers down around campus and hang them up on our door. We were courteous enough to leave them to promote the event, but as soon as the day passed, it was free for the taking. It actually got to the point were we started to line our hallway walls with them as well. It started to fill up with other different odds and ends, like pictures or cards we received.
We also added the edition of a “Quote” wall. When we or any of our friends or teachers would say something profound and/or stupid, it would end up on a sticky note and posted on our wall.
We did not pass our second safety inspection. I tried to convince the fire marshall that it actually was not a fire hazard because the wall was already made out of fireproof stuff (being a dorm), but we still had to take stuff off the wall. We ended up using our craft skills and made a little scrapbook of sorts with our quotes from the quote wall. It was enough to pass inspection!
It’s funny to look back at this picture and to think about how much fun it was to live in the dorm with my room mates and do stuff like this. It makes me wish I would have appreciated it more in the moment.
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