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THE ADVANTAGES OF SINGLE LIFE,
or Life in One Room

Jessie Bazzeghin

During my two years here on the Hill, I've come to know and
appreciate the advantages of living in a sing!e dormitory room: Few
people realize these advantages, and I feel It my duty to enlighten
them.

First, a general description of a dormitory room. They come
equipped with:

a super-power cold-when-cold-hot-when-not radiator,
one electric outlet-on a five room circuit with easy-blow

fuses,
decorative pipes of assorted shapes and sizes,
cavernous closets,

durable, lasting furniture consisting of one huge desk, one
huge bureau, one huge dresser (these frequently are com-
plete with drawers), two beds with broken-in mattresses,

various animal life-mice,
thousand leggers, and
a not so durable roommate.

A single room means easier living. It is easy to clean. Simply
open the window and door and the room practically cleans itself.

It is very easy to arrange. Quite often the first arrangement is
found satisfactory and left that way for the complete school term.
After pushing tons of furniture around, you are satisfied to leave it
in any sort of arrangement, and leave it for good. And since there
are only two ways to arrange the furniture, (dressers on the left side,
beds on the right or beds on the left side, and dressers on the right) ,
it is a wise decision to be satisfied with it the way it is.

One room means more efficiency-everything is within easy reach,
with a little bending or stretching, lifting or pulling. Everything is
close at hand-under the beds, behind the desk, in the deep, dark re-
gions of the closet.

Maybe the nicest things about the dormitory room are the deco-
rative advantages it has. Anything goes well with the pale-dusty-
pink-with-small-white-daisy wallpaper. In fact, anything goes-striped
spreads, checked curtains, floral lamp shades and green roommates.

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