New year, new friends, new experiences, and most importantly (in the context of this post) – new dorm! Last year, I explained that UR assigns second, third, and fourth year housing based on a lottery system. You and your roommate/s are each assigned a lottery number at random, which represents your spot in line for selecting the room or, in the case of seniors, apartment of your choice. Incoming freshmen are assigned to their rooms by the housing department and, barring special cases, are not given opportunity to select a specific room or dorm building. Whenever you find out where you’ll be living, I’m sure you’ll be curious about the dimensions of your room and its proximity to doors, staircases, and even bathrooms. Just type the name of any dorm into the search box on the UR website and it will provide you with photos and floor plans - it’s the perfect place to check all that out!Last year, my roommate and I both had relatively low (as in about 10th from the bottom) lottery numbers. Luckily, we were able to snag a room in Robins that was a fairly decent size. Unluckily, University of Richmond received a record number of responses from the income freshman class and we got kicked out! UR was on top of things, though, and moved us into an upperclassmen building that was supposed to be under renovations all this year. Instead of waiting for fall, the university simply fixed Jeter up over the summer, patching up walls, adding new windows, and installing new carpet. We’re on the same side of the lake as Robins, about twenty feet closer to Dhall/the academic buildings and twenty feet further from the gym. Quite alright by me!Our room, we have decided, can only be described by one word: cozy. “Tight” or “small” implies that the space feels restrictive, which is by no means the case. It took more than one attempt to arrange the room so that all of our storage bins and piles of clothing fit away nicely, but we got it done eventually.Here’s a few pictures so that you can see about what a dorm room looks like! My first or second post from last year has pictures from my much larger room in Moore, if you’re interested.
This is my bed, desk, and bookshelf. As you can see, I’m a poster fiend and insist that every free inch of my walls be covered with some sort of decoration. Apparently, only 10% of the walls are allowed to be covered because it is a safety hazard so I’ve since been told to remove some of them. I highly recommend buying a few cinderblocks to prop up your bed if you don’t choose to loft it – they create a lot of extra space and, unless you’re very short, you won’t notice the minute amount of extra effort you have to put forth hopping onto it.
Instead of two closets, we have a closet and a wardrobe. That’s the skinny brown structure beside my mirror/dresser combo. It’s not very spacious…at all…but I don’t have much that I hang up so all’s well! I’m not sure what will happen this winter when I bring in all my bulky coats, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
I debated cleaning up my general study area, but figured that leaving it like this was more realistic. Please notice that it is well stocked with food, absolutely none of which is healthy. Yumm.Enjoy this week! We’ve had some beautiful weather in Richmond, and I’m hoping it keeps up!** Sorry about the awkward lack of spaces between paragraphs, photos and even some words! There’s something up with my blog website…**
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