Urban Dorm Life

Today is a great day. I am officially home for Thanksgiving Break and looking forward to spending time with my family and relaxing from school for a while. I did not sleep very much last night or that night before, due largely to a phenomenon called Urban.

I realized that while most of the people I talk to on a day to day basis know what Urban refers to, you, my readers, do not. I will explain.

Urban is ultimate frisbee. We play several times a week.

The difference is that we don't play on an athletic field like normal frisbee. We play right in the middle of campus. We don't play with side boundaries at all. We simply have two hundred yards of hedges, benches, trash cans, sidewalks, a giant statue, a small retaining wall, and clueless bystanders to score a point. I was introduced to this wonderful form of frisbee the second week of classes and became thoroughly addicted.

Anyways, we play ever Sunday night as well as at least one other night per week. We normally begin at about 9pm and play well past midnight. If you know anything about frisbee, you will realize how tiring that will be.

The worst part is that I have continued running these past few days, probably adding ten miles to the pain of 7 hours of frisbee.

Also, I sleep on the top bunk in my room. When the alarm goes off in the morning, I usually jump to the floor gracefully and with ease (read that "fall from my bunk like a sack of potatoes") but when I am sore from whatever athletic thing I was doing the day before, I flop and fall all over the place on my way down.

This leads me to the second half of my post...the hazards of bunking beds. In college, you and your room mate will face the ultimate decision....to bunk or not to bunk?

If you choose to bunk, you will be able to walk around your dorm room, and if you are lucky you will be able to stretch you arms out and not touch either a wall or some piece of furniture. Sadly, someone will also have to sleep on the top bunk (that would be me).

If you choose not to bunk, there is no space in your room for anything besides furniture. The people across the hall didn't bunk their beds, and their room is literally packed with furniture. One guy has to climb over a dresser to get to his bed. The other unfortunate aspect of unbunking is that you will most likely be sleeping very close to your room mate, which is also very awkward at night. EDIT: I was informed some people don't mind that. That's not how I roll, but whatever.

So what is the ideal solution? Actually, some people on my floor came up with the perfect solution: send your room mate to China! Here's how it works.

Four people (A, B, C, and D) all share a suite with A and B rooming together next to C and D. C and D make plans to go study abroad in China next semester. The Residence Hall Association says that since they will both be gone they will have to lock up their room and take all their stuff out. The four guys sit down together and work out a plan.

C and D fake a fight (which would never happen, they are the nicest people in the world) and say that they can't room together anymore. A and B also fake a fight (actually very likely) and say the same thing. RHA, in its infinite wisdom and power, decided that the perfect solution was to switch so that A roomed with C, and B roomed with D.

Now when C and D go to China, A and B each have their own room. Genius.

Sadly, my room mate doesn't speak Chinese and isn't planning on studying abroad, so I need to think of something else.

I'm open to suggestions :)

Adios