College Dorms

[NOS2006]

How do/did you decorate your dorm?

I'm thinking about making a bunch of Photoshops and throwing them up on my walls when I get there in late September.

Cars I'm thinking of for the walls:

• Viper SRT-10 Coupe
• Viper Competition Coupe
• Camaro Concept
• Camaro SS Photoshop
• Ferrari F430
• DB9
• Probably some others

Girls I'm thinking of for the walls:

• Alyson Hannigan
• Jessica Biel
• Shania Twain
• Jessica Alba
• Christina Aguilera

Yay. Edited August 11, 2006 by NOS2006

[Farkas]

While it's not a dorm room, I put records on my ceiling :-P

They look pretty cool

[Guest YellowJacket894]

I don't have a dorm (yet; that's in the near future), but go find some metal posters and a nice clock.

For example:

(Now, you may not play guitar, but c'mon. The rusted edges on that look sweet.)

I have a clock like this with distressed paint.

And they last longer than paper ones, too.

Edited August 11, 2006 by YellowJacket894

[NOS2006]

I just made my first poster:

Edited August 11, 2006 by NOS2006

[Guest YellowJacket894]

NOS: Now, where are you gonna get paper large enough to fit that on?

[NOS2006]

NOS: Now, where are you gonna get paper large enough to fit that on?

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Regular 8.5" x 11" photo paper and print it "landscape" style.

[FAPTurbo]

I put a poster of the Dodge Charger R/T on my door the first week when I was in residence. Two days later... someone took the liberty of grabbing my next door dormmates felt marker and scribbling:

"American Gas Guzzling Decadence"

I come back from class to find some of my neighbours wondering who the hell did this. I know it wasn't anyone on my floor, because we all talked cars.

The university is packed with liberal, hippie types who can't seem to mind their own business when I'm driving my truck or make some capitalist remark.

Sadly, we never found out who it was.

Edited August 11, 2006 by Captainbooyah

[the_yellow_dart]

Most dorm rooms don't have much space on the walls for decorations. Mine had a big wooden bar going all around the outside with lamps and cabinets and such mounted to it. Really the only place for posters was up near the ceiling and ON the ceiling.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

Hey, in order make your posters a little more neat, could I suggest a few fonts?

Ferrari Typeface

Dodge Typeface

To install (Windows XP users):

1. Download the .zip file.

2. Open the Control Panel.

3. Click on Apperance & Themes.

4. Click on See Also: Fonts.

5. Extract the .zip file.

6. Drag and drop the font file (not the readme) into the Fonts folder.

7. Enjoy the font.

[NOS2006]

Thanks, YJ.. but I just downloaded the Dodge like last week and I don't care for the Ferrari one.. reminds me of something found on a truck or something.

[NOS2006]

Yay, my list of girls is full of pictures. Click the links in the first post!

[Guest YellowJacket894]

You know, I'm curious if I should go find a nice, two-bedroom apartment when this issue arises...

[CSpec]

Last year I didn't have anything on the walls, but I'm bringing some paintings this year.

[NOS2006]

There's the list, all complete (for now )...

Click each item in the first post for the picture I'm putting on the wall.

[NOS2006]

[loki]

How could you foget this picture? :AH-HA_wink:

178770[/snapback]

it going off road sometime? oh wait...tires....

and

[FAPTurbo]

How could you foget this picture? :AH-HA_wink:

178770[/snapback]

'ing MTV and its damn hippity hoppity videos...

[Northstar]

I think I'm gonna bring a Z06 and regular Corvette poster and that'll be it. The regular Vette poster is huge, like 24x30 or so and the Z06 is probably 20 x 20.

[NOS2006]

Northie, 24x30 is a normal poster size. :rotflmao:

[Guest YellowJacket894]

How could you forget this picture? :AH-HA_wink:

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I can forget it...

[ocnblu]

Guys with posters of girls plastered everywhere are trying too damn hard.

Are you trying to lure guys to your room for some reason? I fail to see how it will make girls want to spend time there. Girls want to feel like they're the only one, they don't want to see "posters to wank to" on your walls. Keep the girl pictures hidden. That's my opinion, Nos. You do whatever you want.

[trinacriabob]

NOS:

Again, refresh my memory, where are you going to college? Coed, right?

What will you be majoring in?

When does it start (like in 3 weeks)?

[NOS2006]

NOS:

Again, refresh my memory, where are you going to college? Coed, right?

What will you be majoring in?

When does it start (like in 3 weeks)?

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Kettering University. It's co-ed, but like 80+% guys

Mechanical Engineering

Sept 28 is orientation. First class is October 2.

[the_yellow_dart]

Guys with posters of girls plastered everywhere are trying too damn hard.

Are you trying to lure guys to your room for some reason?  I fail to see how it will make girls want to spend time there.  Girls want to feel like they're the only one, they don't want to see "posters to wank to" on your walls.  Keep the girl pictures hidden.  That's my opinion, Nos.  You do whatever you want.

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I've never quite known what to think of this.

I didn't have anything on my dorm walls until my girlfriend put pictures of celeb women up there...

[FAPTurbo]

Guys with posters of girls plastered everywhere are trying too damn hard.

Are you trying to lure guys to your room for some reason?  I fail to see how it will make girls want to spend time there.  Girls want to feel like they're the only one, they don't want to see "posters to wank to" on your walls.  Keep the girl pictures hidden.  That's my opinion, Nos.  You do whatever you want.

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I had a similar argument with a dude in my dorm making a similar argument as ocn. I'd make points, but he'd always say "I'm a dude, it's what we do"...

I just gave up...

He's a master-debater

[NOS2006]

If a girl can't agree with me having pictures of beautiful, famous women on my wall, that's her problem, IMO. They're not showing any nudity, though some are close, and the one of Christina Aguilera is simply getting thrown up there because it's pure badass. Besides, I don't care if girls have pictures of guys on their walls. So, I guess it's just their prerogative.

[Croc]

The women I spend time with are well aware of my high standards...and therefore the fact that *I* find them attractive and want to spend time with *them* and as an extension lump them into the same category as the pin-ups...it makes them feel very special. At least that's what one of them told me the other day.

[ocnblu]

serious/Nos, you know I wish you every success in your college career. You've got to be psyched right now. This is going to be such a challenge and such an opportunity for you to find out so much more about yourself. You'll do fine, I'm sure, both scholastically and socially. We're proud of you, sir./serious

ocnsmartass/Your dorm walls would not be complete without a poster-size pic of you humping your Series III. You know the chicks would dig it./ocnsmartass

[NOS2006]

Thanks, oblu, but on the second half, no thanks.

[76ChevyTrucker]

I had my model cars and trucks on the bookshelves. I had a couple of airplane posters on the walls (aerospace engineer). Other than that, I really didn't have that much decorating my dorm room. Other than the TV, Sega Genesis, 1st Gen Nintendo (I kept things old school), and the computer and the phone. There was also the microwave (since our dorm was weird and didn't allow anything else).

[Satty]

I had nothing, just easier that way. No matter how many posters or how much $h! you have, it still isn't "your" place so I didn't see the point.

[76ChevyTrucker]

That's one reason I didn't have a whole lot. I just had enough to make me feel comfortable in there. A few of my friends in my dorm had just gobs and gobs of stuff on the walls that just seemed un-needed.

[Croc]

Thanks, oblu, but on the second half, no thanks.

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You are gonna have so much fun rushing and getting $h!faced...just don't over-do it, mkay?

[NOS2006]

You are gonna have so much fun rushing and getting $h!faced...just don't over-do it, mkay?

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Hell yeah, man! When is the "rush" or whatever usually?

Oh, and I've never gotten drunk or haven't even drank more than a wine cooler and a Mike's Hard in one night.. Getting $h!faced would be too easy for me, probably lol

[ocnblu]

Hahaha, be careful who you wake up next to. :AH-HA_wink:

[Croc]

Hell yeah, man! When is the "rush" or whatever usually?

Oh, and I've never gotten drunk or haven't even drank more than a wine cooler and a Mike's Hard in one night.. Getting $h!faced would be too easy for me, probably lol

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Dude I know nothing about Kettering...hopefully it isn't deferred. Rush should be soon after you move in, but you'll know when rush is.

[schuby87]

You are gonna have so much fun rushing and getting $h!faced...just don't over-do it, mkay?

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I think i might be able to help you out with that problem during zero weekend......

[CSpec]

I had nothing, just easier that way.  No matter how many posters or how much $h! you have, it still isn't "your" place so I didn't see the point.

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Yeah that was pretty much my view of it too.

Dude I know nothing about Kettering...hopefully it isn't deferred. Rush should be soon after you move in, but you'll know when rush is.

I think deferred Rush is a good policy, most people who pledge during orientation are tricked into doing it.

[Chris_Doane]

Man you should've seen my freshman dorm room. Quitely literally a 8x10 single room. We all joked that it must've been a converted broom closet....which is even funnier when you consider I came out 1.5 years later. Do you have a roomie?

Not to get all parental on you either, but don't go too crazy once you get there.

My freshman year there were 2 guys across the hall. Tony and Kevin. The *first weekend* at college. Tony drank so much vodka he fell out of the top bunk and split his head wide open. Blood everywhere. Went out of the dorm on a stretcher yelling all this drunken stupidness. By mid year he'd had a few other mishaps and a run in or two with the police and he was expelled. Last I heard he had stocking or security night job at an Old Navy or something.

Kevin drank a lot, made it through school with some run ins. Was a really intelligent guy and had a great job right out of school. Unfortunately he was driving drunk several months ago and wrapped his car around a tree. He and his friend in the front seat were killed immediately.

So yea....don't let all that new found freedom make you go crazy. Heh oh an 'blu is right about all the girlie posters.

[NOS2006]

Ohh, yes, I know, Chris. For one, I don't drink and don't plan on being a heavy drinker. What's that? You say that I'm a young, inexperienced teen who can be easily influenced? I'll PM you about that one right when I'm done posting this. :AH-HA_wink:

Second, I'm not going to go "crazy" when I get there. I'm going to act normal, get to know some people, and do everything I can without sitting around being a dud. However, I'm primarily there for school and I know that. I think I'll do fine.. I've got more confidence in myself than anybody else. Everybody (not saying you, but in general) underestimates myself and the choices I'll make. Once again, this'll be covered in the PM I talked of in the first paragraph.

And, yes, I'll have a roommate to a certain extent. It's weird, but cool.. my room is connected to just one of my neighbor's via a door (which is lockable from both sides) in that wall. So, if we like each other, we can keep it open/unlocked. If we want some privacy, we can lock it for the night. And if we just don't like each other, it'll be locked on both sides. It works out.

'blu, if I wake up next to the wrong person, I'll just make a prayer that I didn't contract any bugs or STDs. And if it's a guy, I'll have to kick his ass.

[Satty]

'blu, if I wake up next to the wrong person, I'll just make a prayer that I didn't contract any bugs or STDs. And if it's a guy, I'll have to kick his ass.

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BV will enjoy wrestling with you after you wake up.

[ocnblu]

Yeah, Chris, I didn't want to tell Nos, but in every "college boy" gay porn scene I've seen, the dorm room walls are always covered with girlie posters. It's how gay guys lure the "bi curious" ones in for some lovin'.

So there ya go, Nos, that's the real reason why I cautioned you against putting up posters of hot girls. :AH-HA_wink:

[NOS2006]

Yeah, Chris, I didn't want to tell Nos, but in every "college boy" gay porn scene I've seen, the dorm room walls are always covered with girlie posters.  It's how gay guys lure the "bi curious" ones in for some lovin'.

So there ya go, Nos, that's the real reason why I cautioned you against putting up posters of hot girls. :AH-HA_wink:

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Are you.. kidding me?

[ocnblu]

Nos, all kidding aside, I am not saying that was your goal when you posted about it at the top of your thread, trust me. All I'm saying is, yeah, it's true what I said about the movie scenes.

[NOS2006]

Nos, all kidding aside, I am not saying that was your goal when you posted about it at the top of your thread, trust me.  All I'm saying is, yeah, it's true what I said about the movie scenes.

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I knew you weren't trying to be snide about it. I didn't realize that about the gay cowboy scenes though.

Looks like Aguilera's the only one going on my wall. That picture is sweet as hell.

[ocnblu]

Cowboy?

[NOS2006]

The way you put it, it reminded me of Brokeback Mountain type $h! haha

[Satty]

NOS=dude magnet?

Isn't Kettering like 70% male, not like he's going to get any, sausage fest with a few bull dykes mixed in.

[Satty]

NOS, you're going to get drunk and wake up with a fat chick, so be prepared to replace your worn out Love Ewe with

[regfootball]

Kettering University. - NOT BIG 10 or ACC or SEC etc. STRIKE ONE

It's ...like 80+% guys - that alone should is a big strike. trust me, i went to a school with like 60% guys and women all cop an attitude from the favorable numbers. even the fat chicks with bad personalities have their pick of the guys. Your odds quite honestly are not good, through no fault of your own and there is nothing you can do. You'll have a greater chance of getting with by going with your mom to the mall and hitting on the girl at the starbucks kiosk. you really ought to change schools if you ever want a chance of hot chicks.

Mechanical Engineering- no comment except engineers are not known by chicks to be wild and crazy.

just kinda giving some guff. But that guy ratio is disturbing, you had better make sure to go off campus plenty and find some women. cuz all the ones on your campus will be stuck up biches. even the porkers

Its not going to matter whether you have chicks on your wall or not, there won't be any around hardly to notice just due to the 80/20 thing.

edit: I typed that up before I read satty's posts right above this! LOL!

and NOS.....you WILL be drinking. just stay sober enough to not do anything stupid and preserve your own life.

Edited August 13, 2006 by regfootball