Moving into a college dorm can be an exciting yet challenging experience. As you settle into your new life as a student, creating a cozy and comfortable living space becomes essential. Your dorm room should be a place where you can relax, study, and recharge. In this article, we will provide tips on how to transform your college dorm into a simple and cozy oasis.
1. Choose Soft Bedding: Start by investing in soft bedding that will make your sleep more comfortable. Opt for high-quality sheets, duvet covers, and pillowcases in materials such as cotton or microfiber. Adding some extra pillows or cushions can also provide extra support while studying or lounging.
2. Utilize Warm Lighting: Lighting plays a crucial role in setting the ambiance of any space. To create a cozy atmosphere in your dorm room, opt for warm-toned lighting instead of harsh fluorescent bulbs. String lights or fairy lights can add a magical touch to your room while providing soft illumination.
3. Add Throw Blankets: Make your dorm room feel homier by incorporating throw blankets or small quilts onto your bed or couch. These not only add warmth but also serve as decorative accents that can complement the overall theme of your room.
4. Introduce Plants: Indoor plants have been proven to improve air quality and reduce stress levels. Bringing some greenery into your dorm adds life and freshness to the space. Choose low-maintenance plants like succulents or spider plants that require minimal care.
5. Personalize Your Space: Displaying photographs, art prints, or posters on the walls can instantly personalize your dorm room and make it feel like home. Arrange them in creative ways using adhesive hooks or tape to avoid damaging the walls.
6. Create Functional Spaces: College students often need different areas within their small living quarters for various activities such as studying, relaxing, and socializing. Use rugs or tapestries to visually divide your room into zones, creating separate spaces for different purposes.
7. Incorporate Storage Solutions: Dorms are notorious for their limited storage space. Utilize under-bed storage containers, hanging organizers, or collapsible bins to maximize your room’s potential. Keeping your belongings organized will contribute to a clutter-free environment, leading to a calmer and more serene atmosphere.
8. Keep it Clean: A clean and tidy room always feels cozier. Make sure you have cleaning supplies readily available to maintain a neat living space. Regularly decluttering and dusting will prevent your dorm room from becoming chaotic.
9. Comfortable Seating: If space allows, add a comfortable chair or bean bag to create an inviting spot for relaxation or reading. Consider getting a small desk lamp nearby for added coziness and convenience during late-night study sessions.
10. Embrace Scents: Scented candles, essential oils, or wax melters can add an extra layer of coziness by filling the air with delightful fragrances that uplift your mood. However, always ensure fire safety rules are followed in the dormitory.
By implementing these tips into your college dorm room setup, you can transform even the tiniest of spaces into a cozy retreat where you can unwind after long days of studying and socializing with friends. Remember that personal touches and practical solutions go hand in hand when creating a comfortable and inviting living environment within the confines of a college dormitory.
Grown And Flown
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Author by : Lisa Heffernan
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Publisher by : Flatiron Books
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Description : PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection....
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Author by : Neil S Plakcy
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2023-10-25
Publisher by : Samwise Books
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Description : When his college friend Doug moves to Stewart’s Crossing after an ugly divorce, reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan sees a way to pay forward the help he received under similar circumstances. But when Doug dies under mysterious circumstances, Steve and his crime-solving golden retriever Rochester have a new goal: Find the truth behind Doug’s death, even if Steve has to risk the freedom he has fought so hard for to do it. Contains Ponzi schemers, a Quaker funeral and cute jump drives shaped like llamas....
Ask A Manager
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Author by : Alison Green
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-05-01
Publisher by : Ballantine Books
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Description : From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together...
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Author by : Carla Yanni
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Publisher by : U of Minnesota Press
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Description : An exploration of the architecture of dormitories that exposes deeply held American beliefs about education, youth, and citizenship Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The residence hall has come to mark the threshold between childhood and adulthood, housing young people during a transformational time in their lives. Whether a Gothic stone pile, a quaint Colonial box, or a concrete slab, the dormitory is decidedly unhomelike, yet it takes center stage in the dramatic arc of many American families. This richly illustrated book examines the architecture of dormitories in the United States from the eighteenth century to 1968, asking fundamental questions: Why have American educators believed for so long that housing students is essential to educating them? And how has architecture validated that idea? Living on Campus is the first architectural history of this critical building type. Grounded in extensive archival research, Carla Yanni’s study highlights the opinions of architects, professors, and deans, and also includes the voices of students. For centuries, academic leaders in the United States asserted that on-campus living enhanced the moral character of youth; that somewhat dubious claim nonetheless influenced the design and planning of these ubiquitous yet often overlooked campus buildings. Through nuanced architectural analysis and detailed social history, Yanni offers unexpected glimpses into the past: double-loaded corridors (which made surveillance easy but echoed with noise), staircase plans (which prevented roughhousing but offered no communal space), lavish lounges in women’s halls (intended to civilize male visitors), specially designed upholstered benches for courting couples, mixed-gender saunas for students in the radical 1960s, and lazy rivers for the twenty-first century’s stressed-out undergraduates. Against the backdrop of sweeping societal changes, communal living endured because it bolstered networking, if not studying. Housing policies often enabled discrimination according to class, race, and gender, despite the fact that deans envisioned the residence hall as a democratic alternative to the elitist fraternity. Yanni focuses on the dormitory as a place of exclusion as much as a site of fellowship, and considers the uncertain future of residence halls in the age of distance learning....
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Author by : Hanya Yanagihara
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-01-26
Publisher by : Anchor
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Description : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise....
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Author by : Sally Augustin
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Publisher by : John Wiley & Sons
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Description : Using psychology to develop spaces that enrich human experience Place design matters. Everyone perceives the world around them in a slightly different way, but there are fundamental laws that describe how people experience their physical environments. Place science principles can be applied in homes, schools, stores, restaurants, workplaces, healthcare facilities, and the other spaces people inhabit. This guide to person-centered place design shows architects, landscape architects, interior designers, and other interested individuals how to develop spaces that enrich human experience using concepts derived from rigorous qualitative and quantitative research. In Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture, applied environmental psychologist Sally Augustin offers design practitioners accessible environmental psychological insights into how elements of the physical environment influence human attitudes and behaviors. She introduces the general principles of place science and shows how factors such as colors, scents, textures, and the spatial composition of a room, as well as personality and cultural identity, impact the experience of a place. These principles are applied to multiple building types, including residences, workplaces, healthcare facilities, schools, and retail spaces. Building a bridge between research and design practice, Place Advantage gives people designing and using spaces the evidence-based information and psychological insight to create environments that encourage people to work effectively, learn better, get healthy, and enjoy life....
Let S Go 2008 Europe
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Author by : Inés Pacheco
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2007-11-27
Publisher by : Macmillan
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Description : Packed with travel information, including listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and feel like a local. RELIABLE MAPS to get you around cities, towns, and the countryside. CHEAP, DELICIOUS EATS from Spanish paella to Polish pierogi. VOLUNTEER and work opportunities from Reykjavík to Istanbul. INSIDER TIPS on the best gay and straight nightlife, traveling cheap, and finding vegetarian food. Advice on BIKING, CLIMBING, and HIKING from the Alps to the Tatras. A useful PHRASEBOOK to help you say "I'm lost" in fifteen different languages....
