Time Rewind: Can You Have a Stylish Dorm Room?

I don't know about you guys, but my college dorm room was anything but stylish. If I'm going to be painfully honest here (and yes, this is going to be painful), I had my share of decorating no-nos. I definitely did the tapestry thing. I believe it was tie-dyed and it might have said LOVE (hey! I said might have). My roommate and I had white Christmas lights in the window. We once painted wooden snowflakes many-a-colors and hung them from the ceiling with dental floss. We each had a body pillow, mine was plaid. In retrospect, why does anyone need a body pillow? Anyway...what dorm room would be complete without a corkboard. Mine was smattered with gallery of me and my boyfriend. They were from our prom. Oh, sweet youth.

Being pretty far removed from college days, and even further removed from the days of sending kids off to school, I feel out of touch with what's cool on the back-to-school front. Given all of the technological progress that's taken place since I donned that cap and gown, I'd venture to guess dorms can be pretty damn cool nowadays.

Well, our friends over at StreetLevel confirmed my assumptions. Check out their guide on How to Have an Awesome Dorm Room. No tapestries here. Pinky promise.