<p>You may or may not have hears stories about kids who bring living-room armchairs with them to college, the girl who brought all her yearbooks since kindergarten, the kid who freaked out his roommate by keeping a loaded gun in a drawer, or that one time some guy showed up with a small moving truck full of stuff. </p>
<p>Then you get this little gem:</p>
<p>"Whilst a student at Cambridge, [Lord] Byron was irked that university rules banned keeping a dog. With characteristic perversity, he installed a tame bear instead. There being no mention of bears in their statutes, the college authorities had no legal basis to complain. In one of his letters, Byron cheekily suggests that his ursine friend 'should sit for a fellowship'."</p>
<p>So, in the spirit of Byron, I'd like to ask: what stories have you all heard/witnessed of people bringing rather unusual things with them to college?</p>
<p>My son just saw his dorm room which he is sharing. There is no room for anything that does not fit in or on the furniture there. There is hardly any free floor space at all. So no African drugs, easy chairs, refrigerators, except one that can fit under the desk. No rugs unless they are bathroom rug sized.</p>
<p>The girl four doors down from me my first year brought a huge african drum, too. She practiced every evening at 10 oclock and I’m quite sure our entire building could hear her. I wanted to strangle her. We had (mostly) soundproof music practice rooms in the basement.</p>
<p>There was a girl a few down from her who was rumored to have brought over 200 pairs of shoes, who introduced herself as such while lamenting that she didn’t own a single pair of running shoes.</p>
<p>The strangest thing I think I’ve seen was the girl who brought a big box of tiffany jewelry and would sit in the bathroom every morning, lay it all out in front of her, then try it all on and demand that everybody tell her how she looked.</p>
<p>Given the fact that within a week of living in Ann Arbor you’re no longer surprised by /anything/, I’m surprised I can’t think of anything else. I guess most of the weird stuff is out on the streets rather than in the dorms. XD</p>
<p>“The strangest thing I think I’ve seen was the girl who brought a big box of tiffany jewelry and would sit in the bathroom every morning, lay it all out in front of her, then try it all on and demand that everybody tell her how she looked.”</p>
<p>OCD much???..wonder if she laid them out in particular order</p>
<p>funniest thread in a long time; should copy and paste to the parents forum so that they can see it too…</p>
<p>A friend of mine actually had a double room that was actually two rooms, so he and his roommate put both of their beds in one room and put a bunch of stuff in the other room, including a full-size refrigerator. It was amazing! :D</p>
<p>I’ve seen people swap out their dorm mattresses for regular mattresses. I just don’t know what you’d do with the cruddy dorm one that you’re not using.</p>
<p>You can pull a Mike Tyson and bring a tiger. It’ll be funny to see your roommate’s reaction when he opens the door to the bathroom and sees a tiger in there.</p>
<p>Well last year, my roommate and I turned our fraternity house room into a party room by taking out the desks and installing a full bar and placing multiple tv’s on the walls, black and strobe lights, and a sound system that it looked like a tiny club in the room.</p>