The view from my kid's dorm room.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yeah - too bad she has to suffer that view of the parking lot! :stuck_out_tongue:

I just got back from UofI yesterday and thought my freshman had hit the jackpot with her room simply because it is on a corner and has windows on 2 walls (W and S). But it is on the 1st floor and the views are of a side lawn and street, and the back lawn and a bike path.

If your daughter were here in Illinois, on the other side of the asphalt she would have her choice of corn or beans - maybe both!

Dropped my son at his frat last Sunday, and once we scraped a couple of decades of grime off the window we had a lovely view of a wall about 20 feet away! As crappy as the view was, it was lovely compared to the view inside of the room! I think the room had been inhabited by a pack of wolves before him. We were torn between whether we should let him do everything himself and learn those lessons and get that satisfaction, or help him out so as to ensure that he had a clean and comfortable place to study and live when his demanding engineering classes start up again next week. So after we dropped our daughter off and got her settled in, my wife and I brought him some PineSol, Windex, and 409 and spent a couple of hours cleaning layers of disgusting grime off of just about every surface, hanging a mini-blind, and a few other things he would probably never have gotten to. I think he will appreciate and we will feel more comfortable knowing they were done.

Another one of those tough parenting decisions, but I’m comfortable with our choice.

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I was born in Boulder, lived there for the first six years of my life, and still have family in the area. In your picture, that’s my favorite mountain to the left of Flatirons. I don’t know why; I’ve always loved that mountain. I love the pointy part, I love the shorter curvy hump, I especially love the little rock promontory there on the far left.

It’s My Favorite Mountain. (I’ve called it that forever.)

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Ya know, that would make an interesting thread… What’s your favorite mountain? I can understand why you’d choose that one, especially with the sentimental home ties and all.

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Starring Ray Walston? :smiley:

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One of our office windows looks straight into the dorm building next door!

That’s a great view though. Well, except for the parking lot, and even that can be helpful in finding out when her pizza has arrived, and seeing who’s coming and going from the dorm.

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The view from my dorm room as an undergrad was across the Charles River to Boston. I was just about even with Fenway Park. I had that view for three of my four years.

Never had a view anywhere near as good elsewhere.