There are the students that count taping a Chinese takeout menu to the door and occasionally making the bed as decorating their dorm rooms. Then there are those that take that room with a desk, dresser and bed with a plastic mattress and transform it into a personal getaway with touches that make it uniquely its own.
“I took the extra steps to personalize my room because I think your personal space should reflect your interests and the kind of person you are,” said freshman Tiffany Corrada, a resident in Vaughn. Her room displays decorations that reminded her of her childhood as well as some newer seasonal pieces, giving her room an unexpected twist on the Gothic look.
She explained, “What makes my room so unique is definitely all the Disney décor and dolls that all really mean something to me as well as the mix of Halloween and horror decorations because I love decorating seasonally!”
Senior Haley Riddering is an RA in Austin. Having a room to herself, she was able to add whatever decorations to it she wanted without having to worry about clashing with a roommate’s style. She said the reason she added a personal style to her dorm room was because, “One day, I’ll get married and live in a house with a really cool guy. That really cool guy might not and to live in a room with floral print and Mickey Mouses and random things pinned to the walls. But right now I don’t have that really cool guy’s opinions to worry about, so I’ve taken advantage and made my room awesome.”
Here are just some of the awesome rooms we found across campus.
Photojournalism at its finest right here. That’s sarcasm, editors. So we’ve got writing about some cool rooms, and we’ve got pictures of some cool rooms, but are they the same rooms? Who knows?! I think I honestly liked the college sex articles better, Minaret. At least then the entire staff, from prof advisor to freshman walk on, knew what they were talking about.