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A shoebox where you pay tuition to learn what your roommate's feet smell like.
means A shared residential building, usually on a college campus, where students sleep, study (sometimes), and live in small assigned rooms.
from Short for 'dormitory,' which comes from the Latin 'dormire,' meaning 'to sleep' — the same root that gives us 'dormant.' The clipped form 'dorm' is a casual, mostly American shortening that caught on in student speech because nobody wants three syllables standing between them and complaining about their roommate.
- origin
- from dormitory, latin dormire, to sleep
- reality
- nobody actually sleeps much there
- density
- more people per square foot than most prisons
- legacy
- forges friendships through shared bathroom trauma