Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole dorm room. Well, first of all I happen to like schemes. I wanted my room to be more than a mish-mosh of posters; I wanted my room to have a definite feel to it. When I look around my room right now, I essentially feel happiness. On the surface, the brilliant colors and the many smiles just make my room a wonderful place to be. However, the emotion I feel goes beyond how cute Pooh looks, but also involves all the underlying emotion and personal connection. By surrounding myself with the inhabitants of Pooh Corner all over...
...there are plans and there are plans. And then there are the plans that materialize. This issue showcases a first-year who actually transformed his dorm room into Pooh Corner, five characters actually running for U.C. president and an intrepid reporter who actually attended 15 parties in one short night. This magazine has actually come out 22 times in the last year...
...Last year, Christopher J. Perriello '99, bought basins, drains and pumps, and screwed them together to create a tropical waterfall with a six-foot drop in his dorm room. The fluorescence mixed in with the water gleamed under his black lights. Outside, the cold New England ground was wet with gray rain, but inside, warm tropical water splashed down to a rock beach dotted in shells and starfish. Perriello painted fluorescent mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large...
...Dorm room beds are tiny and constricting, but the residents of Quincy 601 still revel in the childhood joy of diving into a giant bed covered in pillows. The increasingly infamous "Pillow Pit," also known as "The Pillow Palace," is filled with the pillow fighting and the giggling of a middle school pajama party. The pit is the brainchild of David A. Sivak '00, who constructed the area with a base of mattresses that contains, at present, 48 pillows. This fluffy pit submerges guests in the common room. In his suite with five other girls, his roommate Dan B. Baer...
...With the #1 bus nowhere in sight, we improvise, crossing the street to Random Hall, an MIT dorm, to visit some friends and try to find a party. As we prepare to enter the dorm, we hear the strains of sirens in the distance. Apparently, the dry ADP party was safe from police, but not from the three fire trucks that arrive on the scene with striking immediacy...