Dot: Happy Tuesday

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1. Introduction

Nickname: Dot

Location: New England Region

Occupation: Student

I never thought I would be living in a place outside of California, but that is how life goes.

I want to give a little overview of who we are: we're five noobs from California, studied at same high school, but now all separated to our own universities.

In my case, I've spent total of 3 weeks in this college and everyday I'm discovering new shits and perks.

For example, in one of my smaller classes, some genius thought it would be great to have a pillar in middle of the classroom. Surprisingly, it makes people sitting on the back impossible to see the board.

This blog will be a log of all that adventures and drama. Hope you find this entertaining and informative.

2. Dorm

This college has a program that allows you to choose what kind of group you want to share the building with. You can either choose your to be with people from your major or just people who share same interest. For me, I chose something outside of my major because I had no desire to see the same group of people every where I go, sleep, clean, shit, drink, and study. Unfortunately, that has cost me living in the farthest building which takes me 10 min to 15 min to get to the classrooms. It does help get me to exercise, though.

My dorm looks like an average apartment building from the outside. Because of this characteristic, the inside is a bit smaller than the actual dorm buildings—which works for my advantage since I have less people to share the bathroom with.

The interior is the same old traditional dorm: carpet, one bathroom to unite us all, lofted beds with desks or drawers under, etc. The unique parts of this is that we have weird light mustard yellow walls with exposed pipes and rather high ceilings.

You can customize your space by moving around the furniture, or you can just live with what you have. If you are germophobic, it is nice to get a vacuum cleaner yourself, because your roommate will most likely not care about it.

3. Vacuum

This school has a policy that lets students to borrow vacuum cleaners from the RA (residence assistance) of your building. The weird thing is that usually the RA's office opens at 7PM and closes at 7AM. But for my building (it is collection of five different apartment/dorms) the RA comes around 9:30 PM.

Not only that, no one knows when will the new vacuum will come.

Thus, I've given up on getting that vacuum.