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05-08-2006, 08:12 PM
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Is buying this for Sarah as a graduation present for her dorm room. http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3033
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05-08-2006, 08:18 PM
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 Amy....was it HER who found that, or her mom? 
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05-08-2006, 08:19 PM
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Hey that's cool! Don't let my kids see it, they'll be begging for one each.
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05-08-2006, 08:29 PM
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Quote: | lynnzop said
Amy....was it HER who found that, or her mom? | I'm pleading the 5th on that one
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05-08-2006, 08:30 PM
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I saw it on Slashdot AND Fark. Talk about no life. LOL |
05-08-2006, 08:37 PM
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I think it would be indulgent for me to have one. But, it makes a lot of sense for a dorm room or efficiency apartment.
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05-08-2006, 08:44 PM
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OMG! Make that a hammock and move it to Key West, and I am so there! |
05-08-2006, 08:57 PM
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Yikes Amyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Now the geek in training is gonna see this and want it. All thanks to you.
He thinks he might have an A in Calc 2 now, depends on the final. You did a good job of geekizing him.
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05-08-2006, 10:02 PM
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somebody had to do it.
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05-08-2006, 10:38 PM
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Hey, if putting my bed on those metal stilts and stashing a Commodore 64 under it was good enough for me.... |
05-09-2006, 01:39 AM
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Going back to the originating site, there are some very clever uses of space. It wouldn't be hard to build the bed - the trick would be coming up with the hinge that pivots. Hmmm . . . .
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05-09-2006, 06:46 AM
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If you buy her a bed for her dorm room, where do you put the bed that comes with the dorm room? :o |
05-09-2006, 08:53 AM
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The college takes them and stores them. A lot of us had lofts to make more room in cramped dorm rooms, especially if you had a triple. |
05-09-2006, 09:16 AM
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We still had to store the parts to our beds in our room. They refused to store them for you, didn't have room for storage for everybody on campus, I guess. Some of the newer dorms have beds now that can be left normal, bunked, or lofted pretty easily & they give you the materials to do it. Through college (even when I lived in a two bedroom apartment on my own) and now in my studio apartment, I've got my bed lofted. It just makes more sense and gives a lot more space, as long as you don't mind sleeping up high. |
05-09-2006, 09:44 AM
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Really? That's crazy!
Ours went to maintenance and they used them to replace other beds. It was a fairly small college, though. |
05-09-2006, 10:24 AM
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who had these options? Vince and my freshman dorm room had 2 beds, 2 desks, 2 small sets of drawers, two closets the size of lockers and a sink. No room for lofts, not much room for creative room set ups. Itty bitty. |
05-09-2006, 10:34 AM
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How come I had a co-ed dorm and didn't have Vince and Wormie as hall-mates? I want a do-over! |
05-09-2006, 10:35 AM
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If you can fit two beds, you can fit a loft. My freshman roomie and I had a loft and then put one of the desks underneath it, giving us room for an armchair and sitting area. |
05-09-2006, 11:13 AM
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My room had a bed, a bookcase, a good-sized dresser, a nightstand, and a bathroom down a short hall that I shared with only one other person.
Of course, I commuted to college
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05-09-2006, 11:52 AM
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Pippa - you must have had higher ceilings. If we had a loft, I fear it would have been like sleeping in a MRI machine. No way! And I'm not sure if lofts were allowed. The quad is old and historic, and I'm not sure we could mess with it.
Joub - Vince and I somehow ended up in the football dorm with all the big freshmen football players. It was fun, but we were soooo out of place!
the first week the RA had a meeting and there was a vote about co-ed bathrooms. We were connected to the next dorm, and each had one bathroom. Everyone voted for co-ed bathrooms - except Vince and me. The thought of coming out of the shower and seeing a half naked football player was.....well.....I was a good girl. The compromise was that they were co-ed only between midnight and 6am. |
05-09-2006, 12:04 PM
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LOL. It WAS rather like sleeping in an MRI machine. You could sit up if you sort of hunched over. Many hungover mornings, I'd whomp my head on the ceiling forgetting to sort of roll off it.
And co-ed bathrooms? Ack! We had co-ed floors, but the bathrooms were still single-sex. I don't blame you for wanting them that way. Boys are icky. |
05-09-2006, 12:08 PM
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Oh, man, Wormie-- you just reminded me. We had co-ed bathrooms, which was pretty cool for 1981. There was a flimsy, painted plywood thing between the shower area and other parts of the bathroom. We, err, drank every weekend and knocked it down on Friday nights. The poor girls had to dodge glances in their towels and robes until maintenance came back on Monday.
I was a good boy in college too. I was engaged by January of my freshman year and switched rooms with another couple who was going together so my then-fiancee and I ended up living together. Was not a bad time. A sage down the hall proclaimed it as "...all the privileges of being an adult with none of the responsibilities."
And we had a celebrity floor because this wicked smart dude down the hall who was a heavy punker and had made his room into a weird, weird place was actually a genius with an IQ off the charts and a high-ranking diplomat as a father. I think he spoke 6 or 8 languages. They cut a record (yes, record) by Christmas that still has one of Joan's favorite songs on it. I'm just waiting until he becomes famous so I can sell it. And I somehow managed to get into the national media by helping lead a student strike. My folks were not exactly happy.
"Uh, look, Dad, I can't talk with you right now. I have a Newsweek interview in 10 minutes..."
But I dunno, Wormie and Vince as kids in college. The mind boggles. There must be some stories there. Hell, there must be stories about MJ even though she was commuting.
OMG -- it just hit me. We need a college picture thread. We all know what we look like now (or a lot of us do) and we've had baby pictures. We need college pictures! Better yet. The EA College Yearbook. Your picture and your senior stat stuff, you know, Debate Club - Fr,So, Glee Club, etc. |
05-09-2006, 12:23 PM
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