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" Living in London was like living on a cruise ship - the rooms were 8 feet by 12 feet, including a bathroom! As soon as we heard how big the rooms were back at Skidmore, my roommate and I had no idea what we were going to do with all that space. When we got to school in January, I was definitely intimidated by the dorms. For one thing, I felt that I had to make it look really cool so that I was like the other kids who had been living there for a whole semester. My walls needed to be covered in posters and I needed christmas lights - wasn&amp;#039;t that a staple of all dorm rooms?   It wasn&amp;#039;t until I started seeing some other rooms that weren&amp;#039;t decked out that I realized everyone does different things with their dorms. My best friend Sara only has 8 pictures on her wall, the rest is blank. A couple of kids had posters they collected from around the school on their walls, which looked really cool. Here&amp;#039;s a tip - decorate your walls with whatever you feel like (roommate permission might be required!) Don&amp;#039;t feel like it has to look a certain way. You&amp;#039;re going to be living there, only you should have input.  Another tip for dorm rooms is to play around with the position of your beds. Olivia and I move our furniture around all the time. The coolest thing we did was we pushed our beds together, a la The Parent Trap, and created something called a Unibed. It was really cool, it saved a lot of space and it served as like a couch for all our friends when they came to visit. Another tip - you could end up spending a lot of time in your room, apart from daily living. Mix it up and keep your room a lively and fresh space, that way you won&amp;#039;t get tired of it super quick!  Here are some kids down the hall with a Unibed, except theirs is three beds instead of two!  Your dorm room is going to be your space, the center of your world during your first year of college. Let it express who you are - it&amp;#039;s what your new friends are going to see when they meet you! Have fun with it and get to know the people in your hall. Good luck my dears! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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