Tag: Dorm Life
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5 Tips For Living It Up in a Tiny Living Space
By Claire Golden If you live in downtown Portland, you probably know the struggle: Housing is so expensive around here that a lot of us are crammed into a tiny living space. Lots of college students live in a dorm room, which is not exactly known for its spaciousness. In my own case, my fiancé…
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Clean Room, Calm Mind
By Claire Golden Like many college students and recent graduates, I live in a small space. This means that even a small mess can quickly become overwhelming because it takes up most of my living quarters. I am naturally a messy person, much to the chagrin of everyone who has lived with me. (Shoutout to…
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Dorm Pie
As I’ve written before, I live in student housing. Dorms— a word that connotes many things related to “the college experience”— ridiculously tall beds, hallways decorated to reflect the RA’s floor theme, washing machines that only work half the time … and above all, socialization. From bonding over bowls of instant ramen to flashcard quizzes…
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Living On-Campus at Portland State
As a parent of a college student, I know firsthand that affordability is important to our students and families. Ondine, home to University Success and Victor’s Dining Hall, is one of our most affordable options on campus. First year students live on their own floors of the building in units with private bathrooms. Most first…
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Lockdown in Student Housing
In March, Housing and Residence life sent out a mass email encouraging those of us in student housing to move if feasible. By doing so, we’d be lowering the amount of interpersonal contact in the buildings, and therefore lowering the chance that COVID-19 could spread among us. The result was a mass exodus of student…
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A day Trip to the Emerald City
For those of us who live in the city without a car, we sometimes forget how easy it is to get out of the city for a weekend. Whether you take a bus or hitch a ride with a friend, it is really easy to just get away, and I know sometimes I forget that…
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Cupcake Fiasco
Isn’t that cupcake beautiful? It only took two trips to the store and three different people’s kitchenware to produce. When making a box cake mix takes this much effort, it’s extremely obvious that this is my first month having a kitchen. It’s my first time living away from home, and my kitchen is not that…