Every dorm room has it’s own feel, style, look, whatchamacallit…it’s a given. This depends on the people residing in it, as well as the general facilities the room offers to the resident. Generally though, rooms can be categorized into 5 main categories (besides Normal)…here they are.

OCD Room: This room looks the exact same way it did the day you move out as it did the day you moved in…the weird part is…it looked that way all year long even though someone lived in it. Everything has its place, is in order, and presents the appearance of the perfect room. Damage to stuff? NEVER. Garbage can full? OVER MY DEAD BODY. Girlfriends? WHAT IS THAT?!

Gamer Gone Wild: This is the room that belongs to the two gaming fanatics (who also have an extensive porn collection) at the end of the hall. Constantly dim light with dark curtains on the windows that haven’t been opened for at least 3 months. You can tell by the smell. Rocking floor-chairs, extensive sound system, multitudes of take out containers, and a fridge full of mountain dew and hot pockets epitomizes the decore, while acne, greasy hair, slight-strong BO, and Funion breath characterize the residents.

Hippy Chic: This is one of the fun rooms to chill out in and eat humus with pita chips while grooving out to some Hendrix. Tapestries on the walls, tie-dyed curtains, natural lighting, and the omnipresent scent of petuli and Egyptian goddess waft in the air. Although the room has a natural calming effect, the generally lacking hygiene of the residents, and the regular fear that you could get busted for pot while hanging out with them somewhat negates the positives…but hell, it’s a dreaded hair, yoga practicing good time.

Pre-Post Avalanche: This is the room of the normal guy…well…almost. It’s the residents who generally keep a fair amount of order in their room. The walls covered with movie posters, pictures and reminiscent memorabilia from their time in college and friends back home. Everything generally has its place, until that one thing gets left on the floor. Like an evil magnet it quickly draws other items in the room to join its little mission of messyness, until eventually, in very short order, this is the most trashed room of them all…until the bimonthly clean-up day, during which the change found is enough to pay for some laundry…SCORE!!

The Party Pad: This is the place everyone knows about, everyone goes to, but nobody wants to live in…except the guys that do. They have their own little bar, descretely disguised as a nightstand, an inflatable beerpong table (for easy storage), shot glass chess board, a disco ball DJ setup in the closet, and beanbag chairs galore to seat all the peeps that come down for drinking games, debauchery, and procrastination. Sometimes the room is clean…but generally this is the room where you find the most damage to the walls from darts, elbows, butts, and the periodic bottle cap stuck to the stuck-o ceiling.

What other rooms are out there? You know you’ve encountered each of these at some point…but to each his own…what is you’re room like?