...of Door Decs!

Hello Future Panthers!

As of right now, most of you are living in rooms that you have had for most of your high school career, if not longer!  If you are anything like me, you probably still have the same decorations from when you moved in; except for the memorabilia collected throughout the years, such as photos, homecoming gear, and random birthday gags.

Take a moment and reflect how you came upon our blog right now:

• You need a break from homework, but you don't want your parents to know you are procrastinating.
• You are tired of the same old posts from your friends on Facebook.
• If you refresh your Twitter timeline any more, you might get sent to Twitter Jail.
• Tumblr - it is just too depressing at the moment.
• Pinterest - that will take up too much time and your homework will never get done.
• You just finished your DOR contract and you are excited about living in the dorms!
• You are looking for possible color schemes, furniture, etc.
• You need ideas, so who better to ask then current students!

I am here to tell you that you will get all that taken care of at graduation parties, trunk parties, and you can figure that out with your roommate another time.  One thing that may not come to mind is your DOOR DEC!  Now, you are wondering what that could possibly be... Well, it is the bulletin board on every dorm room door and more often than not, that is what conveys the inside of your room, personality, etc.  When people are walking down the hallways and your door isn't open, that is what they look at and wonder who lives there!  Don't get freaked out, it isn't a whole judgement issue or first impression! It is just another one of those unique things about dorm life ;)

Unfortunately, I am not a very creative person and my roommate last year did not really care about the door decoration.  So, I was left trusting the basic scrapbook paper as my main guide to creativity.  I don't want to show you what NOT to do because that is pointless.  Fortunately, my roommate this year is very into arts and crafts! I let her deal with the door decs and she is being an overachiever by redoing our door dec almost every month! You don't have to go that far into it, but if you'd like then go for it! Here are the two door decs I've had this semester:

The skyline is the Chicago Skyline since my roommate and I are both from the Chicagoland area (we've known each other since the 7th grade).  Yes, that is her parachuting from the sky - I was too lame to get a picture...

This is our current one for Halloween of course! Yes, that is her screaming in the haunted house - she is weird (I know...)

Helpful Tips:

• Include "In", "Out", or any other place you might be a lot to let people know if it is safe to knock or not.
• A lot of people redecorate to go along with the Holidays.
• Have fun with it!

~STAR Joslyn