If you want to know how far behind I am in posting stuff, just continue reading and be like: “Wow, this is pretty far behind!”
Before I moved out in June, I managed to borrow a digital camera from a neighbor and take a few pictures of my room. I was going to post this in June, but you know, that deal with time…
In Avery, everyone has this cool whiteboard on their door. I usually have more interesting things on my board like quotes and images, but since it was finals week, my roommate and I kept a “emancipation” list to mark off when we would be free. The left side is my list. My roommate is insane and does tons of things. We also use the whiteboards to leave messages for other people, or we just vandalize other people’s whiteboards for fun.
This is my side of the room (the left side). It’s more of less like this despite that I’ve started packing things a little. Looking at dorm pictures of people from other colleges, I’ve always been struck by how sparse my room is. I’ve always thought this was because I’m from out of state, and didn’t like the hassle of shipping stuff around. However, a lot of other people’s rooms at Caltech is pretty spartan too. So I think this is kind of representative of how scientists (or just Caltech Avery undergrads) live.
A close up of my desk. There, you can see my voluminous textbook collection and my slick computer setup.
A close up of the other half of my room (the dressers and the stuff on them to the right of my guitar are my roommate’s). The greenish guitar is a normal Jay Turser JT300 Strat which I got for really cheap since I couldn’t lug my super-cool Fender Fat Strat over. Some binders, food bits, and stuff can be seen. Sometimes I attempt to make chinese food, but I don’t really have the ingredients for them, and the supermarket is about a 17 minute way away.
Maybe I’ll write about my chemistry work next…
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Or maybe you’re just not the decorative sort of person? I like my room to be cozy and feel like home, so I decorate it… not everyone is like that, though. It’s not that much of an extra hassle to put stuff in a box and bring it down, since I’m already bringing plates and lamps and sheets and stuff anyway… I would have had three cardboard boxes (one full of clothes) whether or not I intended to decorate.
Regardless, though, it’s awesome to finally see your room! Even if you are wicked slow with posting things like this