From Core77's Hack2School: The Ultimate Design Student Guide.
The annual running of the bulls in Pamplona is a cakewalk compared to moving into any urban campus college dorm. Despite the best intentioned systems configured for effortless access, the fact that scores of new freshman--jumpy about their entirely new surround--and their anxious parents--agitated about their empty nests--converge at the same time and place with a few elevators and limited parking is a blueprint for meltdown or worse.
Although in real time this annual ritual quickly comes and goes, when one is in its throes it feels like forever. Hence, the potential for intense and intestinal distress exponentially increases, particularly as parental memories of the first step, first bite of solid food, first day of school, and first college tuition payment come flooding in. Oh, the humanity!
Students who follow this method will doubtless feel superior to other students who do not have a system. Parents who encourage this method will doubtless feel less stressed and far superior to other parents who are scrambling for wheeled bins after their assigned parking times have expired.
In anticipation of this dreaded day when, in my case, my only male heir leaves his only family for his new home, I have drawn on my decades of acquired design know-how--lessons learned at the feet of some great modernists whose utopian mission was to make the world a better place--to offer a solution to the proverbial problem. Indeed what is good design if it can't help ease the stress and strain of daily life?
So to reduce the pain of this rite of passage, I designed the following strategic steps for getting through this nightmare without the usual angst or remorse.
See more tips, tricks, and lifehacks for design students at core77.com/hack2school
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