Dorm Room Decorating Ideas for Back to School!

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I'm glad NYT is finally reporting on important issues.

Here’s a tasty quote from the article:

{Lesley Lachman was taken aback by the dorm rooms, which she described as “completely not doable to live-in.”}

I don’t envy her future professors.

Meanwhile, Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in the nation. Officially, one in five Mississippians lives below the poverty line. But given how low the official poverty line is, certainly more like a quarter to a third of people in the state are quite poor.

Honestly, I’m not bothered that Lesley and her fellow Stepford sisters are blowing $$$ on gussying up the dorm rooms where they just might score some hot football player sizemeat. But to flaunt it in the NYT?

Not pink enough!!

I see nothing wrong with this. I only advise the furnishings are donated after use if the items are in good condition.

When I was in college (ancient times) where there were quite a few well-off kids, the richest girls on campus lived in the same dorm rooms as anyone else, maybe they added a comforter. I don't understand this generation of kids. Bougie!

[quote]Ms. Lachman and her roommate spent about $3,000 for the design company to create a modern-looking, New York City-style dorm room with a touch of Southern charm.

Why would you want a New York City-style dorm room? What does that even mean?

I don't believe these people are serious about getting an education. Spending $3K on decorating a fucking dorm room? It's not a permanent apartment, even. They seem like totally spoiled brats. If you have $3K to waste on yourself, you can save it in the bank, or give some of it to a worthy cause or charity.

Put up a poster or two like we did as hippies way back.

I had a poster of Nixon when he was in office that said Would You Buy a Used Car From This Man? They should bring it back with Trump on it.

I didn't read the article, I looked at the photos. Everything looks like it was sourced from home goods? It doesn't look like 10 grand worth of furnishings.

Showing off that you have money was once considered tacky, imagine that.

R11 Exactly what went through my head. I could do better than that on a third of the budget.

[quote]Why would you want a New York City-style dorm room? What does that even mean?

Rats and maintenance issues.

“Tuition $9,400”? Was this written in 1974? When the Times isn’t posting “dems in disarray” bullshit or interviewing yokels in Ohio diners who, surprise surprise, think the country is going to hell and only Trump can save it, they’re printing elitist, out of touch bullshit like this.

Most of those rooms look like aftermaths of explosive diarrhea of someone who overdosed on Pepto-Bismol.

In-state at Ole Miss^

You get what you pay for…

College girls are insufferable. Just get a string of Christmas lights like Willow and Tara.

The real villain here is the New York Times for publishing this crap. Give me the Mail any day!

Rome relived. Somewhere Nero's fiddling.

I'll take one of each

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[quote]The real villain here is the New York Times for publishing this crap.

I’ve said similar things in the past about other articles “How will this 30-something couple find something livable on the Upper East Side on their budget Of $2 million?”.

A few comments pointed out that the Times was probably counting on hate reads. A click is a click. They know what they are doing.

I think the better question is why these girls allowed/wanted themselves to be profiled like this. 98% of people will call them spoiled brats, and roll their eyes. The lack of self-awareness/ability to read the room is astonishing.

more reason to completely ignore the NYT

Whatever happened to just putting some Posters on the wall??