This week, I get to move my youngest into the dorm for her freshman year.
Unfortunately, because I took her to "too many" baseball and other events, she wanted to go to UTC instead. I was hoping since her boyfriend was going to UT that she would change her mind, but she did not.
Ironically, UT has been tearing down my old dorm (Melrose Hall) in recent months. I snuck over to campus and grabbed a few souvenir bricks for my office.
Her dorm suite has 4 bedrooms and a common area with kitchen. My room had bunkbeds and windows and bathroom down the hall. I had no cable, no internet, annd we were not allowed to have a microwave.
Because I lived in the basement, in 1992 they install window AC units because the steam pipes under the floor made the room unbearably hot IN THE WINTER. During the Blizzard of '93 I turned off the unit for the first time in 7 months and opened the windows for cooling.
Her dorm has all the amenities. My dorm had character and lots of characters in the lounge as we watched Price is Right, daytime Spanish language game shows, and played Sega Madden '93. She doesn't know what she is missing.
