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Watching an 18-year-old woman arrive in New York City, move into a dorm with bay windows and proceed to have two sickeningly cute guys fall in love with her during her freshman year gave me some slightly unrealistic expectations about university life.
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Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Move-in, start dates for 12 universities UH reports record-breaking freshman class
Approval of the new dorm comes after the university reported a record-breaking freshman class.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Earlier this year, Butler University announced the renovation of a historic former dorm into a Curio Collection by Hilton boutique hotel.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
Today’s great photo is from staff photographer Wally Skalij, who was recently on assignment for a story about how a student at UCLA transformed his dorm room into an escape room.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Move-in, start dates for 12 universities UH reports record-breaking freshman class
Approval of the new dorm comes after the university reported a record-breaking freshman class.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Earlier this year, Butler University announced the renovation of a historic former dorm into a Curio Collection by Hilton boutique hotel.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
Today’s great photo is from staff photographer Wally Skalij, who was recently on assignment for a story about how a student at UCLA transformed his dorm room into an escape room.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Welby attended camps run by Smyth in the late 1970s, first as a camper and then as a dormitory officer.Arion McNicoll, The Week UK, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
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An Aleppo University employee, speaking anonymously for security reasons, confirmed that an artillery shell hit the second floor of a dormitory with students inside at the time.Mostafa Salem, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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At the boardinghouse, proprietress Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant, Herr Schultz, who owns a fruit store, begin a serious romance with plans to marry.Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
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Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
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The first night at the flophouse, Barbosa slept on the floor.Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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When Elwood retrieves Jake from Joliet Prison at the start of the film, their eventual destination is a flophouse apartment in the Loop, a downtown space defined by L tracks.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorm. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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