{"id":74,"date":"2015-06-24T11:36:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-07-08T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T07:56:04","slug":"infecting-your-new-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/2015\/06\/24\/infecting-your-new-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Infecting your new room"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_79\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-79 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a student bedroom at the University of Kent\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image2-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image2-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image2.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjork&#8217;s bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif';color: black\">Let\u2019s face it, for the majority of you, your uni room is going to be significantly smaller than your current luscious passion pit, so you are going to need to be <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif'\">exceptionally creative<\/span><\/strong> with your packing. Not only do you want to reduce parental annoyance by fitting everything into one car (1 car=1 trip for them), but there is just no feasible way you can live <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif'\">AND<\/span><\/strong> have all our stuff in one room. From experience it\u2019s better to bring less than too much, the likelihood is you\u2019ll be going home for Christmas anyway, so you can grab those essentials you left behind!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a student bedroom at University of Kent\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image1-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image1-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/files\/2015\/06\/image1.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjork&#8217;s bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif';color: black\">The aim for your room is to make it your own personal sanctuary; whether it\u2019s a little piece of home smacked into Canterbury or a new vibe for a new you (that was so bad, please excuse the cheese), you need that stability and place to call your own. This environment is vital for productivity during the year and easing the initial feelings of homesickness (if you get that sort of thing and are not one of the people celebrating fleeing from their parent\u2019s authority). Personally my comfort craze is pillows. I can proudly say that in my uni room I had 9 allowing me to flop after a long day or to cuddle them when I\u2019m feeling lonely. This cuddling option includes a guy, that\u2019s right; both genders share this tender relationship with pillows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif';color: black\">Before you come make sure you invest or tactically pinch a coin jar from home. You\u2019re going to be wearing clothes and hence you will need to wash them. The washing machines and driers take coins only and don\u2019t give change so you need all the variations of change you can possibly get (excluding coppers of course but I guess you can pay for your coffee with them when you\u2019re running low on funds).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif';color: black\">An idea is to invest in a futon or roll-able mattress that will fit underneath your bed. I know it\u2019s taking up costly space that could be used for things that you will forget about and never use, but ultimately it saves you sharing a bed with your duvet hugging friend when they come to visit and gives your parent&#8217;s somewhere to stay if one of them drops you off after Christmas and Easter. Alternatively after a boozy night and someone is stranded with you at your house, you can give them a cushion off the ground to sweat their alcohol into during the night; the single best way to make friends the morning after.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Tunga','sans-serif';color: black\">Be kind, be confident, be creative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\">This post is by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/bjork-aston\/\">Bjork Aston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it, for the majority of you, your uni room is going to be significantly smaller than your current luscious passion pit, so you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/2015\/06\/24\/infecting-your-new-room\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9871],"tags":[143731,143732,143733,143768,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}