Your own room (sorta)
Room is the size of a large dog cage
Ethernet ports in every room
Enthernet ports aren't hooked up yet, you have
to telnet your email off some VAX machine in the school computer lab
A fresh new email address
Your real name in the fresh new email address--So
long anonymity...
Roomates
Roomates who don't use deodorant
Having to drive 4 hours each way between here
& home (to visit parents, girlfs, etc) and getting lost on the way
Cheap gas in Indiana ($0.89/gal)
Guy/Chick Ratio (approx. 5:1) It's an engineering
school, for God's sake!
Dribble Dicks who don't
lift the seat in public john
Midnite pizza
Thunder Pizza is open late
Thunder Pizza can give you thunder indigestion
Always keep plenty of Tums
...Away from roomate and guests, if possible--They
may have indigestion too
Laundry? What's that?
Clothes that stink from not doing laundry? You
Bet!
No chicks on this floor
Chicks on the floor directly above you--Got a
drill, anyone? It's peephole time! :)
Smoke detector in every room
Lets the RA know when you're smoking
No parents!!!
No money from parents!!!
No adults who need you to be quiet so they can
get their beauty sleep
Roomates need their beauty sleep, too
That wieeeerd class schedule: Monday, 5 classes;
Tuesday 2; Wednesday extended lunch hour in the middle of the day...
Free, public internet access in school lab
That's PUBLIC internet access--No warez, hacking,
downloading stuff, bomb recipes, cusswords, South Park videos, MP3's, Shockwave,
Java, FTP, ICQ, chat...
Heated rooms
No air conditioning
Smells nasty in here because SOMEBODY spilled
the Pine-Sol all over the floor, and waited 'til it got sucked in under
the tiles before bothering to clean the shit up...
Spankin' the monkey (just kidding!)
Getting CAUGHT spankin' the monkey (not funny!)
The roomates unauthorized pet likes to eat laundry
quarters
Homework? My roomie's unauthorized pet ate it!
Freedom to listen to pretty much ANY music you
want to
Acck! Whose bright idea was it to leave an ENYA
CD in your disc player, thus causing it enter your dorm undetected by sensitive
ENYA-filtering equipment? Can anyone say, "Trojan Horse"?
Speaking of Trojan, guess who left his condoms
at home? Yep, You got it!
The only calendar you could find was a complimentary
one from Hitzeman Funeral Home, with Christian themes and bibles scenes
adorning its pages. Buy a casket, get a calendar...
All your important dates are written in it: Get
drunk, get lucky, run out of money due to rapacious bookstore vampires,
hire personal-injury attorney, run very fast in dorm hallway, slip on pukestain,
sue pants off puker/pukee, solve money problem...
Free webspace! Maybe GeoCities can't get
it censored...
Free webspace eaten up by mindless drivel like
that which you are currently reading...
Whose idea was it to pack a sewing kit in with
my stuff? Now rest of dorm calls me 'Sweetheart' (J/K)
Breakfast, lunch, dinner covered on meal plan
Spam for breakfast
Spam for lunch
Dinner tried to eat YOU
Lovely Japanese woman strolling seductively across
campus
Dammit why does that Japanese dude dress like
a woman?
Too many Tupac lovers in your building, who
like it LOUD!
Why doesn't my phone work?
Where did all this cockroach poop come from?
Whose potato chip did I just step on?
Taco Bell in town, open late!
Roomate may kick you out for having characteristic
Taco Bell flatulence
Cable TV!!
Didn't bring a TV!!
With all this homework, don't have time to watch
it anyway!
All fat, oil, and grease goes to heaven
not to mention straight to your love handles--Ever
hear of the 'Freshman Fifteen'?
Hey man, those look like MY underwear!
Well YOU weren't using them...
Junk Food.
Easy availibility of junk food
Don't you just LOVE how your **** stick to your
***** on hot days in no air conditioning?!?