Personalising a Dorm Room

Some tips on personalising a dorm room...

• Add custom carpets. If your room has weird angles, The Perfect Rug makes custom-order rugs and they're delivered within a month. 
• Figure out your habits and tailor your spaces to them. I put my boot tray in front of my dresser for a month, until I got so annoyed that I couldn't pull out my drawers properly that I moved it behind my desk. On that note, get a boot tray - you'll need it for the winter and rainy season. 
• You can make plain surfaces more attractive by draping pashimas over them.
• Paper laterns are a great way to bring some personality into a room.
• Etsy, eBay and the Wisteria e-shop have a lot of funky furniture that you can order online. If you're looking for ideas for different pieces, you can also check out sites for small living spaces like Dwell and Apartment Therapy. Pintrest will also have a lot of posts in the home decor section. 

My friends Lhanzi and Alex taped up paper laterns to make the ceiling more colourful.

My funky bed-side table from Wisteria
and a vintage alarm clock from Etsy

A flexible standing lamp I ordered from Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Most of the girls on my floor have some variation of this lamp.

Frisbee on the Library Lawn

Here's a short video clip of frisbee on the Durick library lawn; I thought I'd give you a peek of what I pass on a daily basis - it really adds to the "college vibe" on campus. Many of my friends just rally a group together and start a pick-up game, but you can also join the Northern Knights Ultimate Frisbee Team and play at a club level.

In other news, the South End Art Hop on Pine St. will open this evening - I'm especially excited to attend the glass-blowing workshop! Tomorrow is also a big day for SMC students since the Welcome Back Bash and the Highlighter Dance will be going on. What will you guys be doing this weekend?

Campus Events

Before entering uni, my friends who had already survived their first year would encourage me to attend as many campus events as possible while prioritising.  I didn't really understand the value of this advice until this week, when I realised how many interesting events there are every single day; I've only been in school for one and a half weeks and have already had the chance to attend a labour day speech by Senator Bernie Sanders, meet Burlington mayoral candidate Jason Lorber, enjoy a presentation by photographer Jonah Kessel (who has worked for the NY Times, Women's Wear Daily, China Daily, etc.) and see Paul Loeb speak at the McCarthy Arts Center on campus. I'll be writing individual posts on these exciting events and covering all the G.O.T SKILLS events this semester so stay tuned! For now, here's a quick peek at some upcoming events on and around campus: