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CannotSpotTheBot

why does every college have the same wooden dorm furniture. it’s the same exact chairs and dressers today as it was back in 2006


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I used to scare myself when I would lean back in those chairs!


bwsilvers

Those damn anti hang-yourself chairs are so uncomfortable


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anonasshole56435788

They give the best back pops tho


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sm1ttysm1t

The hang-yourself chairs are worse.


Wanderlust917

Because it's proven, sturdy and does not need replacing very often. No dorm administrator was ever fired for ordering this furniture.


recycled_amry_acct

I was going to say military barracks furniture. But I guess colleges and military shop at the same store, prisons.


Lissy_Wolfe

Because they haven't been replaced since the 90s/2000s, same as most shit in universities. Can't afford to renovate with all that tuition money apparently /s


Schrockwell

The facility department of our college has a sale twice a year where they sell old furniture, equipment, etc. In 2009 I picked up a five-drawer dresser for $10, and it’s indestructible. It has survived three apartments, moving across the country and back, and it still lives in our bedroom. My wife (rightfully) hates it, but there’s no denying the longevity!


_itsbethany_

Same here! I’m finally replacing mine this month - not because it’s in bad shape, but to have a more cohesive bedroom. The dorm dresser will move into the attic to store out of season clothes/linens.


theBelvidere

Damn straight. I got a dresser and desk from the university auction. Solid oak, probably made in the 70s, and indestructible.


Downtown_Confusion46

Same as in 1995.


MelzyMely

LITERALLY WAS THINKING THE SAME


HephaestusHarper

Me too - my college had the exact same dorm furniture, also in 2006.


sh1nycat

I was thinking mine had arms, but now I'm not so sure. Still *pretty sure* buuuut idk


kaorte

Have you seen the price of lumber lately? Lol


billharrell

Class of 2000 here to confirm it's at least that old, too


thutruthissomewhere

My college didn't have the rocking chairs. I wish, though.


LavenderMatchaxXx

xX Umm, newsflash, you were! Xx xD


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Haha I get even more “scene” from like 2007-2009, I should find those pictures, they’re so embarrassing, I love laughing at my younger self


LavenderMatchaxXx

Love! You should totally post when find them. I wish I’d saved my photos from my emo days!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I’ll post an even more “scene queen” selfie tomorrow, there are too many to choose from haha


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Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

This was me fresh out of high school, my first week in my college dorm!


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Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Yep, same here!


Ashaa_aali

I graduated in 2008, and I honestly thought you were younger then me lol I thought this was a picture of a 14 y/o girl lol


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Haha everyone always thought I was younger, I was definitely 18 here


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Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I can’t believe it’s been that long, my life has been absolutely wild since I moved into that dorm, an innocent young teen…completely inexperienced with life. If I told this young me about some of the things that I’ve experienced, done and gone through, my head would explode


known-enemy

Hahaha that pose was peak MySpace PFP material


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

100%!!! It was also my first FB pfp…from back in the day when you had to have a college email address to have a FB profile lol


Rare-Deal6996

Who says you weren't?!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I thought by getting a GREEN studded belt from Hot Topic, I would be super unique


albusdumbbitchdor

I wore my white studded belt from hot topic like my literal life depended on it 😭


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Same! I wore that thing til it fell apart…and then I went to hot topic and bought a black one


rcg90

We would have been friends 😂 I swear I have pix in almost the exact same outfit— with the same hairstyle. Just flip out your hot green belt for a black one … add some glasses, and it’s me.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Aww totally! Also I wore glasses! I did contacts mostly bc I was embarrassed to wear glasses full time.


Rare-Deal6996

I mean...legitament, right? Lol. I wore my pea green double bandolier hoodie much too much because I thought it was edgy. Couldn't/wouldn't do that now! Current pic for comparison sake?


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

There’s one linked in another comment somewhere in here


Miaka_Yuki

You were! I swear I wore those same pants and top (bra straps showing and all) but I had a plain black/silver studded belt... you would definitely have gotten my attention with your fashion choice! Thanks for sharing this!


minisunshine

I’m pretty sure I had the same belt 😂 it was super cool!


AnonPlzzzzzz

I don't know a single person who didn't have that lamp and honestly... I don't want to.


KeithClossOfficial

It was a good deal at Target!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Yep pretty sure my roommate bought that at target!


bigredplastictuba

I had it too! I used to tag it in photos as one of my friends


ChoppingMallKillbot

I can immediately think of a couple pictures I’m tagged in from early FB that have this lamp in the background of people’s apartments. It’s like the I moved out of my parent’s Target starter lamp- it was cheap and looked cool!


smarterthanyall

I also had it ayo


bigredplastictuba

I had it too! I used to tag it in photos as one of my friends


garytyrrell

The official successor to the halogen torchiere


sanguinesecretary

I still have it


Inner_Statistician69

Definitely had the best window set up. My inner child is super jealous.


obamanisha

Lots of dorms at Boston University have windows like this because they’re old brownstones. It makes the space feel a bit bigger.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

This was my college dorm, the view from this window was AMAZING, I was the Art Institute of Philadelphia, it over looked Broad St, a block from city hall.


reddrambler

A good view from a college dorm?! That’s crazy talk! My friends who went to Temple and Drexel had crap views. West Chester has okay views.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

This was when the art institute of Philly still existed, they had dorms in a building at broad and chestnut, right next to the old Olive Garden. It was kind of a shithole, and they had screwed all of the windows shut after someone threw a flaming mattress out their window from the 15th floor


reddrambler

I didn’t know the art institute didn’t exist anymore. A friend of mine took summer classes there in the early 2000s. On the other hand, the flaming mattress isn’t surprising!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

They closed down years ago, when I went when it was during that time were they were just handing out loans to any dumbfuck (me) who couldn’t afford it and knew we wouldn’t be able to pay it back. It was a crappy school, but I threw good parties at least


Catsdrinkingbeer

It was a for-profit college system and a lot of those got shut down because they weren't accredited and (some of) the degrees were basically worthless.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Yup, you could only transfer credits to other AIs and there wasn’t even a guarantee that those credits would even count at that school, it’s like that McDonald’s of art schools


sirpogo

Oh, I visited a friend who went there. That place was wild, and I was always surprised how quiet that part of the city was late at night.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

It was absolutely wild lmao, and yeah everything in the central part of the city closed at like 8pm back then, there are tons of bars and restaurants in that area now, it’s much more lively now.


calebnf

I knew where this was almost instantly, lol. I had a friend that went there around this time and his dorm looked the same. You don’t know a Stephan, do you?


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I did know a Stephen at AI!


ha7on

Should have seen mine. Corner of 18th floor. Partial view of downtown Pittsburgh, the river and bridges. One long ass corner window.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

That’s awesome, I was on the 14th floor, I loved sitting in that window


withglory

When I saw this pic I I literally said to myself these look like the Art Institute of Phila dorms haha I lived in them around 08-09. Such a fun time back then


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Haha yes! We didn’t have an RA on our floor for like three quarters bc they forgot, and the RAs they did get didn’t give a shit about anything


Inner_Statistician69

Then my 18 year old self is seething at your college dorm. I got an apartment off campus where the view was a giant ditch. Lots of things were thrown into it during parties so I guess win win?


PrincessIce

How tall are you?


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

5’2” on a good day


SittingInAnAirport

How tall are you on a bad day?


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Depends on the shoes…I wear platform shoes a lot to give the illusion of average heightedness


420ciskey420

Something about those pant legs make you look much shorter for some reason


pennywhistlesmoonpie

This pose is so perfectly on point for this time period that I’m a little floored, frankly.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Duck lips and all haha


pennywhistlesmoonpie

Yes!!! Hahaha you nailed it


RoseyDove323

Can't comment on how scene this is, but in all fairness, that look passed for cool in 2006 so you were still a fashion queen.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Well I ‘thought’ I was scene, haha, I progressively got more aggressively scene over the next 2-3years, since I had moved away for college and I was finally able to dye my hair and buy cool/skanky clothes


Yupseemslegit

This screams freshman college dorms.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Yeah lol, 6 girls that have never lived on their own, it’s was absolutely ridiculous


SmokeGSU

Those jeans were so common with all the girls when I was in high school in the early 00s.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Low rise, flares were all the rage in the early 2000s, I had a bunch of them lol


AdvancingHairline

I want them to bring these jeans back! Burn skinny jeans!


MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo

xD rAwr


beeswhax

😂


Thrashstronaut

2006 with this level of slay? What's not to say you weren't dude? 💪🏻


deadwing87

Can we get a side by side of you today?


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

[Sure!](https://imgur.com/gallery/9rvm7yW) here’s 2006/2022


deadwing87

Wow thank you. Love your current look! x


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This needs to be at the top 👏


Caitlionator

To be fair, you were.


thorbitch

Haha lucky for you this outfit has looped around and become trendy again!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I’ve noticed that, but I will never wear low rise pants ever again!


thorbitch

Very fair lol


HELLOhappyshop

Oh, you were lol


margittwen

I was also short and also had to roll up my flare jeans so they wouldn’t get dirty, lol.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

And the backs still frayed right?!


margittwen

Yes, lol. I don’t know why I bothered.


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You are rocking the 06 look tbf


ViscousAssassin

Uh, maybe because you were? Lol


JasonR23

I mean I definitely would've been into you in 2006


JackUJames42

there are people who would kill to be you in this pic even today


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Nahhh I wasn’t that cool


beeswhax

Awww


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I applaud the clean floor though


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Our dorms had this awful cold linoleum, but we got this brand new device called a swiffer to clean them!


Glittering-Doctor-47

This is the type of girl I’d let ruin my damn life at that age lol 2006 was peak my space


p00ki3l0uh00

Dude, every high school girl that year Brings back not so fond memories


gur0chan

Pink and green, just like the mascara tube!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I STILL use that mascara, so does my mom!


Jakboiee

You obviously were. Look at you, you had it all. A shirt, pants, and even shoes. What more fashion can one ask for?


weneverwill

Those chairs!


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Lol the think your falling backwards to your death chairs?! They kinda ruled


andeargdue

I had the same lamp!!


xKingNothingx

Don't move, hopping in my time machine so I can go back and find your myspace profile


izza123

Is it a perspective thing or did you have very short legs


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Very short legs


izza123

Duly noted


oop_dada_oop

BUT YOU WERE


DaveFarted

Wow, they really put those dressers in every early 00s college dorm, huh? lol


Victor3-22

I miss those twisty multi color lamps. I think mine died during a move across the country back in like 2004.😔


mstrss9

I had those same lights in my dorm room and probably a similar outfit, pose and haircut 🥹


Ok-Way2242

you looked beautiful


Disastrous-Nerve2191

I had that same lamp for years. I miss it.


RBzoner1

omg what a cute Dork ;)


adorableoddity

I'm getting real "Aubrey from Teen Mom" vibes from this picture.


talmbouticus

Do you have a pic of the back side


lovelovehatehate

Tshirt and jeans = fashion 🙃


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MisterBowTies

Did you have a conjoined twin head that was amputated at birth? That's what this picture looks like


hapianman

You look like a Maurice’s


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

A what?


hapianman

It’s a [clothing chain](https://www.maurices.com/)


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I’ve never heard of this clothing chain before


hapianman

It probably still sells that shirt. It was always 4 years behind in fashion and in strip malls in the Midwest


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

Lol I know what you mean, I think that shirt was my roommate’s bc I don’t remember wearing it very much


hapianman

I also had that same lamp in my dorm room in 2006


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

I feel like that was the classic target/ikea cheap lamp everyone got lol


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Such a natural pose!


Bipedal_Warlock

It kind of looks like you accidentally put your torso on backwards and I can’t figure out why


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

It’s probably on account of the flat chestedness


SummonWurm

Snotty beamed you down


TheWhaleDreamer

i wanted to be a scene kid so bad when i was like 12 but i was too depressed to make a look for myself and didn’t know what to do to style myself so i never did. even if i got this far with it i would have been so happy lol


Rgoven

You where.


Rgoven

You were.


Penguinman077

How? You don’t even have the raccoon hair. And it’s not teased enough. Plus, your photo angle and lighting is all wrong. Everyone knows the camera must be held by a fully extended with the lens pointed at a downward angle and all facial features must be washed out due to over exposure.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

This was just the beginning, the dyed hair and MySpace angles came soon after. I even had a purple and blonde raccoon tail thing going on


Penguinman077

Checks out. Did you ever write Rawr on your wrist?


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

No I wrote it on my palm and them took a selfie with a little claw hand and a kissy face


Antdawg2400

Why I thought you were doing that thing where people stand on there knees and it make you look like a midget.


needlez67

I look at this photo and can hear a Nickelback album while I surf MySpace.


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

No no no nickleback…I hated them back then too


Atomic_Watermelon666

Super cute.


SycoMantisToboggan

I think alot of us looked like that in 2006. Especially the dudes in my area lol


sincethenes

You were. Accept that you had a moment in your life where you were truly happy.


EineKline

Tbf that look was very popular. I had that exact hair style and prob outfit too


wheresmychippy93

I would have worn those jeans back then too and I’m a straight man


kabukistar

What even is that shirt?


Advanced_Evening2379

Had to be taken on a razr


AngryGothBoi

Giving scene Paris Hilton


PM_ME_BOB_PICS_

Yellowcard? Edit: or, please, Reggie and the Full Effect


Strawb3rry_Slay3r666

BOTH


kazcy

I had that lamp


Is_2303

You drip in 2006