Readers: What’s your wildest dorm room memory?
As college students return to Boston, we want to hear about your dorm stories.
It’s nearing September, which means many of the 160,000 college students enrolled in Boston-area colleges will soon be moving into the region and starting school.
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For incoming students, living in a dormitory is one of the rites of passage to college life. It’s a unique and memorable experience for many, as they learn how to share a room with another, make friends, and live independently from their parents.
For others, dorm life isn’t what they expected.
In a column for Boston University’s student newspaper The Daily Free Press, Analise Bruno shared how her experience was nothing like she’d expected in Warren Towers – one of BU’s three dorms traditionally intended for underclassmen, and the second-largest non-military dorm in the country.
“Students did not enter spacious, beautifully decorated suites that look like they came straight out of a Pottery Barn as in ‘Gilmore Girls’ — instead, most were welcomed into a shoebox with two beds, two desks and an attached communal bathroom,” she wrote.
Nicknamed “Prison Towers” by many students for its utilitarian design, cement-block walls, and 24-hour security presence, Warren Towers is part of studenthood lore at Boston University. It’s home to many college student adventures, be it “purposefully misplacing common room furniture in places like the bathroom, or wheeling friends up and down the halls on desk chairs,” according to Bruno, or less mischievous, more serious incidents like power outages, flooding, broken elevators, and fire evacuations.
We want to hear about your wildest dorm room experiences, the worst dorm you’ve stayed in, and where you went to school. Fill out the survey below or e-mail us at [email protected], and your response may appear in a future article.
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