Dormitory Essays

So over the summer I got to visit two schools, the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins university. So when I went to the University of Maryland I felt like I liked it more than John 's Hopkins. At the University of Maryland, they have the School of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social worker law and dentistry. So I visit the school medicine and also got to see their campus and their hospital. During the tour, I also got to visit the trauma center and even went up to see their helicopter. We

The Seton Hall University fire took place in January of the year 2000. Sadly, three students were killed and dozens were injured due to a fire that had started in the common room area. At first details about the cause of the fire were a little confusing, there were many reports that said smoking was the cause and a few that had stated that some drunk students had set the fire as a prank and the fire spread more rapidly than they had anticipated as a result of the carpeting containing synthetic fibers

Guilty of Love After a few years of marriage, a woman's ardor seems to shift from her spouse to her children, resulting in an all consuming maternal desire that overshadows any romance in a once loving marriage. This is the stigma that Ayelet Waldman’s argument is founded against in “Truly, Madly, Guiltily.” Waldman goes as far as to say, ‘There is absolute unanimity on this topic, and instant reassurance. Except, that is, from me.” Truly, Madly, Guiltily has a wide display of rhetorical tools used

It’s December 12th, the day after my 17th birthday. I am awoken to yelling and my heart is beating out of my chest and I can hear it ringing in my head. I look at my phone and the time reads 4 in the morning. I climb down my bed so fast that I almost trip on my way down and hug my mother who is sleeping beneath me in the spare bed. My mother lets go of me and I can still hear the arguing at this very moment. In an instant, it seemed like a Rocky movie and I was Apollo Creed fighting Rocky Balboa

Thanksgiving Break I woke up inside my college dorm bathroom, the only light that was filtering was through the filmy windows high above the showers. I was also alone, tried opening the door, only to find out I was trapped. Then I realized that it’s the first morning of Thanksgiving Break, and since the dorms were cleared out and locked, I’m stuck for the next four days. I usually have my phone with me at all times but this time i didn't realize I had left it in my roommate's bed and I wished

Guns have no role in our country schools. Schools and colleges are places of education. Students should be free to learn in an environment away from every day violence. The catastrophes that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Columbine High School, and Virginia Tech. confirm the penetrating conclusion guns have in our nation’s schools. Violence on campus has Students, Parent, and University Staff all concerned and looking for preventative measures. Guns on campuses make the vulnerable even

The purpose of all dorms is to make you feel at home and for you to be able to call it your own “home.” The first couple of weeks I couldn’t call it my home, almost a month later I am happy to call it home. All the walls being plain white, having all this furniture in one tiny room, having communal bathrooms (sharing with all the girls on the hall), and the outside look of the building are all just a few reasons why it did not feel homey to me at first but I did like the location of the building

Isabelle Dunnam Mr. Hyde P4 English Honors 4/6/16 “The Longest Ride” By Nicholas Sparks SETTING Sophia attends Wake Forest University which is where many events take place. The university is a big part of the novel because Sophia is in a sorority and lives in the house on campus. She shares a room with Marcia in the sorority house at wake forest is often where Luke comes to pick up Sophia to take her on her dates. Ira lived in Greensboro

In the article Hooking Up As A College Culture, the author Rachel Allison attempts to understand how hooking up factors into different college lifestyles. Allison along with her colleague, Barbara J. Risman, found their answer by conducting interviews at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Through these interviews, the author found that students experience the hookup scene and party culture differently because of diverse college lifestyles. Because the author focuses on only one interview, she

Freshman year is always the scariest you’re all alone with a million questions. Yikes! Welcome to Virginia Union University. I am sure you have been given lots of advice on how to survive freshman year, but just in case you were not or were too overwhelmed to retain any here are a few tips that will help you along the way. Once you have been given your room assignment it is imperative that you create some sort of roommate agreement; you do not want to become enemies with your roommate during freshmen

A Prayer has been Answered Katie Ross is 15 year old, brunette girl who adores animals especially horses. In her mind horses are majestic creatures God sends to little girls like her. On car rides, she stares out the window and imagines wild horses running along the car. She has a horse bed cover and pictures of horses hung on her walls. Instead of playing with Barbie dolls, she plays with Breyer Horses. Everyone calls her the horse crazy lady but she doesn’t care one bit. Every birthday

With the new school year quickly approaching, college bound freshmen are envisioning their ideal dorm room décor. From color combinations to smart storage choices, the rush to create a welcoming environment in an unknown setting can be fun and stressful. While students often focus on bedspread options and stylish throw pillows to dress up their dorm, they generally overlook the chance to further personalize their room by decorating the walls. Due to restrictions in most dorms, hanging pictures with

Dorms should be a place where residents can have small talk on their way to the bathroom and knock on my door or a fellow hallmates door if they are having a rough day. It should be a place to study as well as a place to have some good laughs. A place where residents can bond over similarities as well as differences.A place for residents to grow as people. Each resident should feel respected and a sense of belonging. The dorm environment which an RA fosters is essential. The tone I set as an RA can

Email to Mrs. Misfeldt Hello Mrs. Misfeldt I hope you are doing well. I am happily off at college at the University of Duke in Durham, Nc. My roommate happened to be from North Carolina and the two of us are getting along quite nicely. I noticed in the second week of school that my roommate happened to have a confederate flag sticker on his computer. As a potential history major I wondered whether my roommate understood the complexity behind the symbol. When I politely asked about it my roommate

According to the article, “Community, Obligation, and Food: Lessons from the Moral Geography of Inuit,” Nicole Gombay states that “our tradition, traditional way of life, it’s communal, like, we lived in communes. Our society, Inuit society originally was, can I say ‘communist’? … But, communism to many people, it’s wrong and bad. But in some other cultures it’s a necessity” (Gombay, 237). In deed, as a freshman at St. Olaf College, having a roommate is a necessity. It is a requirement for first

The Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond (1/28/85) from Chicago suburb is a prominent political activist and hacktivist. Jeremy got into computers at very young age. When he was 5 he was already coding games. He won a district-wide competition as a student in Glenbard East High School for a computer program he designed. While in high school he became a piece activist and organized walk-around protested against war in Iraq and started a school newspaper opposing war in Iraq. During the summer after his graduation

Noise Nuisance in University’s Dormitories “Anymore, no one 's mind is their own. You can 't concentrate. You can 't think. There 's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting.Dead people laughing.Actors crying.All these little doses of emotion. Someone 's always spraying the air with their mood.” (Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby 2002). When you live in a dormitory especially university’s dormitory that filled with college students, noise nuisance is unavoidable. Noise nuisance may occur anytime day

If there is anything that stands out in The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, it is the setting. From strange dormitories to dark tunnels to scorched deserts, the reader is in for a crazy ride in which the descriptions of compelling locations are described in much depth. A kind of dystopian book about a group of boys fighting to get through insane physical obstacles would need this type of impressive setting description, and this novel does not disappoint. The first instance in which the setting

campuses and dormitories are perfect environments for meningitis to spread. A lot of students are affected and diagnosed with meningitis each year. Most of the students are not aware of the early meningitis symptoms, or they just ignore them. Also, they often fail to get vaccinated. The stress of studying and exams weaken the immune system which will make the student more likely to develop meningitis. Meningitis is one of the most serious and spreadable diseases on college campuses and dormitories because

My sisters were in high school, still teenagers. They convinced me that I should go back and complete my degree. This is why it was so important for me to continue in school. “The three of us, my two younger sisters and I had worked in a tomato factory that summer before I went to my field placement in Cincinnati. My little sisters gave me part of their money to get me to Cincinnati and have something to support myself until the agency gave me a stipend in October. I had only the money