I don't think she even realised she did it lol. Its just subconscious for her at this point since its the first thing she does whenever she renovates something
I feel that, my walls are crammed with all sorts of things that I find interesting-- I think it's fun to try matching different interests into something (semi)cohesive.
I felt that, I have posters and drawings all over my wall along with a tapestry and im moving soon so now I kinda regret my decisions lol 🙃 still gonna do it again when I move
I literally just go to a regular (albeit private) university and its weird to walk into someone's room and not see it that decorated... one of my friends told me my side of the room just needs a few throw pillows and it could've come off of a pinterest page
@@rutheckhart5137 I don't decorate my room because I don't really have the money. Money goes toward tuition and feeding myself and supplies, so I don't have a ton of extra money to decorate with. I wish I did tho
Darn it! 😭 I want to bring some knives for……um……uh………COOKING I’m so good I usually get a bunch of ketchup on it even if I’m not putting ketchup on it 😈 *JOKE PLEASE DONT REPORT*
I felt like that a lot last year. I graduated high school in 2020, and took the rest of the year or so off. So I had about maybe a whole pregnancy (9 months) off. Then when the "Back to School" months came around, I would constantly wake up early in the mornings, thinking I had school.
Yeah I took a gap in the middle of college due to the pandemic and last year the not going back to school was weird especially as my best friend continued on and moved into an apartment in the town we were going to college together.
The local home depot near my college had a color match for the dorm walls called "(college name) yuck" so that people could get their deposit back at the end of school years by painting any scuffs and the RAs where very bad at keeping an eye on us (🙄 caused some major issues as it was a lawless place) so I think you could have pulled it off.
Yeah, my mom took an outlet plate (painted over because of course it was) up the the home depot and when she held it out the paint mixer was like "oh yeah that's (college name) yuck. Give me a second I know the color." I guess so many people came with the same question and color that they just saved it.
I had my dorm bed lofted super high and had both my dresser, with a bookcase on top, and my desk underneath. Great space saver, I loved it. Right up until I had to rush to class, slipped on my ladder and broke 2 toes on the way down.
I didn't live in a dorm, but most people I went to uni with did. And it was common for beds to be lofted that high. (I'm 5'3" and I couldn't see the top of the bed when I stood on the ground.) Ik one person who fell off their bed and broke their foot as well. The lofted beds just always seemed.... Kinda dangerous to me tbh.
@@nerdoftheatre i don't go to college yet but from 2017 - 2019 i had a loft bed and once i climbed like, half-way down it in my sleep and somehow didn't hurt myself
It’s ironic how American universities are so expensive yet so weird compared to those around the world, like there are some beautiful FREE European universities.
Yeah, and you think $2000 a semester would get you a bigger room that you don't have to share with a stranger. Dorm rooms in the US are a big joke. I'm glad I'm a commuter and live with parents during university.
@@water9892 Same with Ireland some of the student accommodation in Dublin goes to 14000 for a year it's mad🥴 I feel like homelessness in Europe is sky-rocketing atm
Sharing a dorm room with another student is soooo weird to me. I studied in Germany and lived in a dorm for one year. All the dorm rooms were single bed rooms. Some were like full on apartments with multiple bedrooms, one or two shared bathrooms and one shared kitchen, but never a shared bedroom! My room was equipt with a kitchen and a bathroom for my self, I didn't share anything. I wasn't allowed to bring in any new furniture or do anything permanent with the walls.
Same! It's so weird! I've lived in Swedish "dorm" buildings where 10 people shared a kitchen and a shower, but it's still such a different experience. You're an adult and your room is your personal space, same as any tenant in an apartment building. As long as you don't disturb anyone or wreck your room, you can do whatever you want.
I feel like dorms are very much an American thing. In France it's very uncommon, I'd say it mainly exists in preparatory schools because they tend to share buildings with high schools. Otherwise we just rent flats.
My college has these rules for dorms: -no flesh-eating fish -non-flesh-eating fish can only be kept in a ten-gallon tank or smaller -no candles, coffee makers, hot plates, blenders, microwaves (only exception being a rented microwave from the school), Panini presses, crock-pots, toasters, toaster ovens, basically anything that made heat -exception was a kettle or a keurig but they had to have an automatic shutoff -every student was only allowed one UL-listed power strip -Dry campus, if you were caught with alcohol in your dorm you got kicked out
Glad we just live in normal apartments in my country, Jesus. That sounds awful. Edit: What I mean is, student dorms are not really a thing. They're very, very expensive and only rich people use them. Vast majority of students rent and share regular apartments.
All of this just seems so insane to me. A blender isn't more likely to catch fire than a laptop. ONE power strip? No fairy lights?! Do admin staff just throw darts at a board full of innocuous objects and whatever they hit they ban?
The no-flesh eating fish sounds like somebody decided to bring piranhas to school and it didn't go over well. I love rules that were clearly made because someone did something that wasn't against the rules but admin was still like.... I feel like this is something we should ban
omfg the fist build i ever did was a house for me and my IRL best friend, and i made the house to be massive, pretty much empty, and there was one room filled entirely with gay flags-- i stg my building skill shave gotten better, but i forgot about that, and honestly, stan 6th grade me
@@yuhhbiscuit It was sarcasm. It's similar to what I said on a previous video with her making a sim and using "they" and people had a massive emotional breakdown over it.. It's really weird that people get so emotional over these tiny things like they're looking for validation from any other source other than themselves and the people they care about.. Like yeah it's nice she uses the flags, but bringing attention to it is what makes it weird. Also, she usually uses the flags because they fit the color theme and are a very nice option for wall decorations in terms of size and looks compared to other things. Just go and look at the other comments about the flag and how people are so emotional over it.. it's not healthy at all to be that emotional over some random person hanging a flag.
Me, a previously homeschooled child who went to community college followed by online university...completely detached from the dorm experience...except through my husband's experiences 😂😂
I always get a little happy when I see that kayak puts lgbtqia+ flags in her builds and makes them work. There’s not a lot of good queer representation out in the world so thanks kiwi. I know it’s a small detail but it makes me happy that one of my favorite you tubers is inclusive.
When I was in college in 1977, the women had one dorm and the men the other. We were across the quad from each other with the admin building at the top of the U shaped street. The rooms had built in beds, shelves and desks. Painting the rooms was right out. I had a stereo/cassette player/record player deck, my clothes and books, and bedding. There was no option for painting walls (didn't even occur to me). Minimalistic moving in and out was nice.
Would love to see you making a "behind the scenes special". Like how you collect ur ideas and how u choose the order, especially with ur merch along with it now. Would love to watch that. ❤️
I live in an apartment off campus but I’m definitely gonna take inspiration from this for my bedroom. Also might be fun and quirky and redesign dorms in Sims 4 instead of doing my homework 🤪
College, like many parts of society, is engineered on purpose to accommodate the average person. It's not glamorous, but it is designed in such a way that the average person will be able to succeed. And in the US at least, schools are required by law to provide accommodation for people with disability as well. In my experience, college was much better than high school. (Graduate school was hell though, so only do that if you really need to)
I don't mean to be bearer of bad news but they are much worse in real life. They are much more cramped and tiny than this. The freshman dorms at my university are legit only long enough to fit two twin beds and two end tables. It's not worth it, especially adding around 20k+ in total cost to your student loans. it's why I went to university near me so I could live at home and it's so much better.
I'm about to run a tabletop roleplaying game set in a college. I've never gone to college, so hearing you talk about dorms and stuff was super helpful and I got to take some notes! Thank you for inadvertently being part of my prep work! 😂
i used to live on the top floor of my building and one weekend someone puked in the elevator and the building's ra didn't know about it, so it was just in there all weekend. and with covid there was only one stairwell you were allowed to use, to make cleaning easier, so everyone was in there all the time and it was so discusting. dorm life really is something else rip
If the roommates that don't like each other were real, I can tell that they'd move the microwave and mini-fridge to the corner instead of being that close to one's desk.
In my college experience someone had to buy a mini fridge and microwave, I was that person (actually bought the mini fridge and acquired the microwave after my first year on campus). So.. it was close to my bed. I did share access tho.
I love lofted beds in theory, but in practice i hate the heat rising and making me alk hot. I think if i had my own house I could alter, I could add some shelves and such to make it more appealing. I did enjoy having a half lofted bed, where there was storage space under it but nothing too crazy.
i literally just moved into my dorm yesterday simsie. thank you for this. also ngl your little encouraging speech at the end made me tear up a little. college seems scary, and i hope it feels less so soon :)
My first post-college back to school season was September 2014 and I remember I went out and bought myself some new notebooks and pens to ease the transition.
My dorm is that decorated… it helps to overdecorate so you don’t miss home lmao. But to be fair I have a single and my RE doesn’t really care about the rules (the stupid ones such as no candles)
Honestly, I finished my degree in June and I recently bought the University pack on sale, so now that I’m not going back to school I can fill that void by sending my Sims to university and pretend
At my university in Kent, UK, each flat (apartment) had 6 bedrooms each with their own en suite and a communal kitchen to share between your flat mates. I think my building had 12 flats, and the same amount on the other side of the building. It was a great experience but I cannot imagine not having a kitchen or my own bathroom
I had a dorm apartment in college, we paid extra. 4 beds 4 baths, so had my own room and a bathroom, with a shared living and kitchen space. Shared the apartment with three other people. Our rooms were super small but it came with a decent amount of moveable furniture so I was able to make myself a massive desk with all of the dressers. It was super useful while doing class online.
I’m a college sophomore but this will be my first year living on campus because of Covid. My move in day is next week so this was a really cool video to see!!
i’m so grateful that my college had apartment-style dorms. 4 bedrooms so no sharing a room, two bathrooms (toilet in each, a shower in one and a tub-shower in the other) with sinks in the space between the two. and a full kitchen and living room
I went to college back in the 90s, but one of my dorm rooms had the built-in closet, desk, dresser/storage area along one wall. You could bunk the beds to save floor space. No sink in the room. You could bring a mini fridge and a microwave, but no other cooking appliance. I also stayed in a dorm that had a very industrial-looking (exposed pipes) sink in the room. We were not allowed to paint the walls, so people would hang up blankets and curtains.
You're not alone. A year ago I dreamed of living in a dorm, not having to wake up two hours before class, communicating with other students literally 24/7, it all sounds so great! However, in my uni you could live in a dorm only if you are from a different city. So I have to take an hour long metro ride to get to university and I get to talk with other students only during breaks, rip
I love this, I feel like it's realistic as well! (I graduated college in 2020) So my last two years I lived in an on campus apartment, but this is very reminiscent of my first two years in the dorms (I was in the same building). We had the "suite style" as they called it where my roommate and I shared a "bathroom" (which was really only a toilet and shower) with two other girls, and we had a sink in the room. And yes the microfridge! (our dorm came with one) I remember being so excited when university came out because it had the familiar microfridge haha. But yeah our dorm was pretty strict, we were able to have like fairy lights but NO CANDLES or any other fire hazard (like hotplates)
At my school there was basically upperclassmen dorms, sophomore dorms, and freshmen dorms. Because of a complication I never lived in the freshmen dorms as a freshmen, I just did the same sophomore building twice for 2 years. But these were the differences: Sophomores: a kitchenette with a half size (slightly bigger than a mini I think?) Fridge and a microwave. A suite for 4 people, 2 to each room. And a bathroom in the suite for all 4 people to share. Upperclassmen: a full kitchen, many cabinets, full size fridge with a freezer, oven/stove, and microwave. 4 rooms in a suite, 2 people in each room, so 8 total. Two bathrooms in each suite, one on each side, so there is (theoretically) 4 to each bathroom. My school didn't have forced dorming in any way but they had a forced meal plan. If you lived on campus you were auto enrolled in the meal plan, even if you didn't want it, it was part of the bill.
At my school (in Massachusetts) we had one traditional/freshman dorm: doubles off a hallway, but all the others were different. After freshman year, I had a full kitchen: there was a stove and a sink and a fridge, along with counter space and a table, and a living room with couches. There were two doubles and two singles, two toilets and two showers in there. There were also these weird condo style dorm that had their own kitchen that had anywhere from 4 to 13 students (the 13 person ones took up 3 floors) and another building with two doubles off a shared entryway with a toilet and shower.
As an European, I could never imagine sharing a dorm with a person my age at the stage of a young adult. I need privacy and the thought of the bathroom situation is making me even more anxious. I am still traumatised by my last school trip in 8th grade where I avoided the toilet for 5 days. That was a lot of physical pain lol. (I'm referring to the natural stinky situations, I was able to let out the water)
I was randomly assigned my roommate and I’m about to lose my mind. You’re so right about the anxiety. My roommate doesn’t understand boundaries and I feel like i have no real privacy. Our bathrooms haven’t been awful, but I think my roommate is so bad that a community bathroom feels like more privacy than my room.
Yeah, at least here in Spain the standard is to rent an apartment with other students or friends and you get your own room. I did however share a room in my first year, when I lived in my uni's campus apartments. My roommate was nice but it was awful not having privacy. I noped the f out of there as soon as I found a regular apartment that was looking for a roommate.
@@taylorstacy8031 I understand, I also had a horrible roommate last year. If you have bad anxiety you might qualify for a medical single. At most schools there's an option to get a single room for the price of a double with a note from a doctor. Honestly saved me lol
i graduated in may and literally didn't start working until a week ago just so i could get that "back to school" feeling but next year it's definitely gonna be weird when september comes around and... nothing in my life changes lol
Hampers!! It took me the whole video to think of something you'd need specifically in a dorm room and then she didn't put them lol dang it! 😂 Ur dorm looks a lot cuter than mine did, simsie 💕
I actually had a really nice dorm and dorm experience surprisingly. The dorms I stayed in were hotel style, 2 roommates and there was a huge vanity area with 2 sinks with many cabinets and a private bathroom, it also had a huge window. And the walls were drywall! And each floor in the dorms had a full kitchen: cabinet space, huge stainless steel fridge and range, and a island and couches with a TV (I never used the kitchens)
i literally started bawling after this intro. im going through the same feeling of not going back to school. i have not been able to talk about it to anyone and its so validating to hear im not alone. thank you kayla
I love how Kayla supports the LGBTQ+ community and sometimes puts pride flags in her builds. As a part of the community myself I greatly appreciate it.
When I got discover university I was SHOOK at the sharing rooms and no kitchen situation 😂😂 (I'm from UK) I had to change the bathroom middle section to a common room. Change all the bedrooms to single rooms (and make one of them a bathroom), then cheat to make a kitchen and cheat with a stove!
imagine needing approval and recognition so bad that a random person on the internet barely acknowledging it by using it to fill up wall space in a video game “brightens your whole day” LMFAO pathetic
@@shelbyann758 your pathetic, seeing representation is a big deal especially for people who have been discriminated, seeing that people care acknowledge is pretty nice and gives a good feeling. I’m sorry you don’t understand
@@shelbyann758 seeing representation even in small ways makes people happy. also its called hyperbole- exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
I totally empathise with how you feel about finishing University. I’m in my ninth year of uni (I’m doing a doctorate) and I really don’t know what I’m going to do with myself when I finish. I wonder how many other people buy the University sims pack to fill the void 😂 I almost always put my sims through the stress of University, for some reason it makes me feel better.
Well, you are technically getting that doctorate so you can work in a very specific field, right? That's the only reason people get doctorates - so they can do that very specific niche work.
I go to a STEM and Arts highschool and our dorms (we're required to live on campus and most of us only go home once a month or less) are very similar to college dorms. We are however spoiled because we have suite-style rooms :) We're allowed Keurig-style coffee pots and electric kettles and mini-fridges, but no personal microwaves. We can use command strips and such but we can't hang curtains and we have weekly room inspections so paint is a no-no. I don't know how many RMs and the like colleges have but each residential hall has 2 per floor, with the exception of first floor because there's not as many students. The dorms are really nice here and we get lots of storage space in the closet. I am going to be very let down when I live in college dorms, I think.
My firstyear dorm was very similar to this. Cinderblock walls, chunky furniture that was hard to move. There was no way to loft our beds but we could raise them up higher for added under-bed storage. We also had the sink in the corner up against the windows with a single wall separating it, and then along the rest of the wall were 2 built in closets (one for each roommate).
Kayla is the only ally Sims youtuber I watch that just, adds pride flags to some of her builds that gives backstories to sims that aren't even made. Also, she does charity streams for St Jude, Able Gamers, and Transgender Law Center, not only having watchers donate but donating herself too. It makes me emotional how much she cares. She's such a sweetheart.
my school doesn’t allow any of the things you mentioned in our dorms but they don’t check lol. however i go to a residential college (meaning you have to live on campus all 4 years), so it sucks not being able to have a microwave/hot plate/etc and having to eat ALL of your meals at a dining hall for 4 years
In my old college in Canada, we could have small appliances as long as they had an auto-shut off. So I made Kraft Dinner in my rice cooker! @ anyone going to dorms: When making rice, adding canned corn and things like Sazon Goya packets makes it a lot tastier! You just put them in with the rice before setting it to Cook Just make sure the cooker fits your dorm's rules, and follow the instructions/tutorials
Saaame :D I have my own kitchen, bathroom, everything. I can't imagine sharing a ROOM with another person. I've had flatmates in the past but even that was too much for me lol.
University in the US sounds so weird, expensive and uneccesarily complicated °-° I'm starting my first semester on campus but being european I just have to take the subway to the inner city each day and not live with strangers
I went to University and we had best doorms in country (Latvia, Europe). They are small appartment style: super small entrance way with build in closet and fridge if you had one (or was left from previous students) and mirror, then 2 small rooms for 4 students and decent sized bathroom. Each floor had 2 kitchens. We could mount things on wall and had to bring our own furniture. Rooms only had 2 beds. We had to clean our rooms ourselves including bathroom. We also could organize parties in dorms like typical American comedies show! A lot of fun memories from that time. Price was super affordable as well. You could also choose your roommates in advance if you went there with friends.
My university is unique. The freshman dorms don’t have kitchens, but the upperclassmen live in apartment and have kitchens. It’s so nice. Although no one knows how to cook, so the fire alarm is constantly going off, lol.
thank you. thank you for adding that trans flag, it means a lot to have representation to us from semi big creators, i really appreciate you supporting us how you do
I went to college in Valdosta Georgia and we also had the cinder block walls and we had a sink area in our room because our floor shared a bathroom and our sink area was huge so I think having the three counters would’ve been normal in my experience! Love your reno though Kayla!!
I'm so jealous of students who get a sink area in their rooms. In my dorms we have to use the communal sinks for everything. It's almost impossible to get a sink in the morning when 30 people are sharing 5 of them.
I live in Sweden with my bf in a student apartment. Here it's normal to rent your own small apartment as a student (a living room/bedroom, a bathroom and a place to cook your food). Usually it comes with the most necessary furniture (bed, table, 4 chairs, desktop + chair) but in the bigger apartment, like ours, you bring your own furniture. You can decorate as you like it! The only thing you can't have in the apartments with furnitures that's not yours are animals. Otherwise, you decorate with whatever you'd like :)
I can’t believe how Americans can’t cook their own meals at uni, that’s scalping. My first year at uni I had my own room and en suite, a kitchen, and a living room - all for £98 a week. And that’s cheap accommodation
I love this series! I don’t even know anything about the back rooms but this series is amazing backrooms related or not! Also with the quality of stories and art you have been producing you totally deserve a break!
kayla: "no renovations"
also kayla: immediately moves the ceiling light
So true.
NOOOO IM THE 999TH LIKE 😭
@@_JustJoe YOOOO i didn’t know i’d gotten that many likes 👀👀
I don't think she even realised she did it lol. Its just subconscious for her at this point since its the first thing she does whenever she renovates something
@@clumsygoblin7589 yes very true
Kayla: you don't need stuff on every wall
My maximalist self: inconceivable!
I feel that, my walls are crammed with all sorts of things that I find interesting-- I think it's fun to try matching different interests into something (semi)cohesive.
same my walls are covered in random crap my Crow Brain likes
For me, my walls are the final frontier. I have like no shelves you know
I felt that, I have posters and drawings all over my wall along with a tapestry and im moving soon so now I kinda regret my decisions lol 🙃 still gonna do it again when I move
Inigo Montoya?
"idk anyone who decorated their dorm room this much"
me, who went to a performing arts college: 🥴🕺🏻
Me, who went to art school
me, who just owns weird stuff and way too many wall decorations because i painted a lot when all my other art stuff was packed to move 💀
🙋♀️ Film school here
I literally just go to a regular (albeit private) university and its weird to walk into someone's room and not see it that decorated... one of my friends told me my side of the room just needs a few throw pillows and it could've come off of a pinterest page
@@rutheckhart5137 I don't decorate my room because I don't really have the money. Money goes toward tuition and feeding myself and supplies, so I don't have a ton of extra money to decorate with. I wish I did tho
“They don’t let you have anything that’s considered a safety hazard”
Kayla: how about some KNIVES above the bed?
Darn it! 😭 I want to bring some knives for……um……uh………COOKING I’m so good I usually get a bunch of ketchup on it even if I’m not putting ketchup on it 😈 *JOKE PLEASE DONT REPORT*
I can’t get over “Knifes?” Like she was really about to put that over that pillow lol
*knives
I would be too scared of there being an earthquake in the night and it raining knives over me. O.o
@Insomnia_Gaming Free haircut? Or headcut
You’ve heard of a knife under someone’s pillow, now get ready for knife ABOVE someone’s pillow!
@@verneve it’s raining knives. Hallelujah
gods as someone who's taking a gap year the whole "Its back to school time but Im not going back to school" feeling hits so hard.
I felt like that a lot last year. I graduated high school in 2020, and took the rest of the year or so off. So I had about maybe a whole pregnancy (9 months) off. Then when the "Back to School" months came around, I would constantly wake up early in the mornings, thinking I had school.
@The Letter S exactly the feeling. I am taking a gap year too
Yeah I took a gap in the middle of college due to the pandemic and last year the not going back to school was weird especially as my best friend continued on and moved into an apartment in the town we were going to college together.
I'm taking a gap year as well because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, also it hits hard when you see your friends move away for university :/
Me last year. I'm finally back in school and it's just as exhausting as I remember lol
The local home depot near my college had a color match for the dorm walls called "(college name) yuck" so that people could get their deposit back at the end of school years by painting any scuffs and the RAs where very bad at keeping an eye on us (🙄 caused some major issues as it was a lawless place) so I think you could have pulled it off.
This is so cool.
that is so smart
That Home Depot for the win! The main dorm at my university was an old hospital that had no central AC and minuscule rooms. No one wanted that dorm.
thats so brilliant!!
Yeah, my mom took an outlet plate (painted over because of course it was) up the the home depot and when she held it out the paint mixer was like "oh yeah that's (college name) yuck. Give me a second I know the color." I guess so many people came with the same question and color that they just saved it.
I had my dorm bed lofted super high and had both my dresser, with a bookcase on top, and my desk underneath. Great space saver, I loved it. Right up until I had to rush to class, slipped on my ladder and broke 2 toes on the way down.
I didn't live in a dorm, but most people I went to uni with did. And it was common for beds to be lofted that high. (I'm 5'3" and I couldn't see the top of the bed when I stood on the ground.) Ik one person who fell off their bed and broke their foot as well. The lofted beds just always seemed.... Kinda dangerous to me tbh.
We had lofted beds in my dorm, except on my floor 🙄
My best friend lived in the room one floor above mine and broke her ribs falling out of her bed.
I dropped my laptop off my lofted bed freshman year- nothing happened except a GIANT scratch on the bottom but like…
all these people falling out of their lofted beds meanwhile my legs just stopped working momentarily while standing next to mine.
@@nerdoftheatre i don't go to college yet but from 2017 - 2019 i had a loft bed and once i climbed like, half-way down it in my sleep and somehow didn't hurt myself
The way she broke every single rule she put for herself at the beginning lol
Simsie: NO FIRE THINGS NOT EVEN FARIY LIGHTS
Also simsie: maybe we should put *knives* on the wall
Me: 👁👄👁
*over the bed*
*right above the pillow*
@@Sp3ctralI LMAO
*earthquake*
I mean they’re not a fire hazard
simsie looking for decorations above the bed “some knives?” lol
Haha as IF a campus would allow knives like that
I was looking for this comment hahaha
how else do you get rid of an annoying roommate haha
@@jyutoiruma lmao
Right over the pillow imagine one falling
It’s ironic how American universities are so expensive yet so weird compared to those around the world, like there are some beautiful FREE European universities.
Yeah, and you think $2000 a semester would get you a bigger room that you don't have to share with a stranger. Dorm rooms in the US are a big joke. I'm glad I'm a commuter and live with parents during university.
Get some info about Dutch uni. Rn people are in the streets because housing is way too expensive and some students are even homeless because of this
@@joelleyoutube4412 oh really, that’s so sad if ur going through that urself I’m sorry❤️
@@joelleyoutube4412 the house market in the Netherlands is a fucking circus
@@water9892 Same with Ireland some of the student accommodation in Dublin goes to 14000 for a year it's mad🥴 I feel like homelessness in Europe is sky-rocketing atm
Sharing a dorm room with another student is soooo weird to me. I studied in Germany and lived in a dorm for one year. All the dorm rooms were single bed rooms. Some were like full on apartments with multiple bedrooms, one or two shared bathrooms and one shared kitchen, but never a shared bedroom! My room was equipt with a kitchen and a bathroom for my self, I didn't share anything. I wasn't allowed to bring in any new furniture or do anything permanent with the walls.
Dorms are a rich kid thing here in Spain. If you don't live close to the uni you're attending, you rent an apartment with other students or friends.
Same! It's so weird! I've lived in Swedish "dorm" buildings where 10 people shared a kitchen and a shower, but it's still such a different experience. You're an adult and your room is your personal space, same as any tenant in an apartment building. As long as you don't disturb anyone or wreck your room, you can do whatever you want.
Ah well, when you're not paying for an empire you can treat your citizens. Others get health care and education, we get 300+ bases.
I feel like dorms are very much an American thing. In France it's very uncommon, I'd say it mainly exists in preparatory schools because they tend to share buildings with high schools. Otherwise we just rent flats.
Oh wow in the US your dorm is just 1 bedroom for 2 ppl💀
My college has these rules for dorms:
-no flesh-eating fish
-non-flesh-eating fish can only be kept in a ten-gallon tank or smaller
-no candles, coffee makers, hot plates, blenders, microwaves (only exception being a rented microwave from the school), Panini presses, crock-pots, toasters, toaster ovens, basically anything that made heat
-exception was a kettle or a keurig but they had to have an automatic shutoff
-every student was only allowed one UL-listed power strip
-Dry campus, if you were caught with alcohol in your dorm you got kicked out
Glad we just live in normal apartments in my country, Jesus. That sounds awful.
Edit: What I mean is, student dorms are not really a thing. They're very, very expensive and only rich people use them. Vast majority of students rent and share regular apartments.
All of this just seems so insane to me. A blender isn't more likely to catch fire than a laptop. ONE power strip? No fairy lights?! Do admin staff just throw darts at a board full of innocuous objects and whatever they hit they ban?
The no-flesh eating fish sounds like somebody decided to bring piranhas to school and it didn't go over well. I love rules that were clearly made because someone did something that wasn't against the rules but admin was still like.... I feel like this is something we should ban
Pretty much same but we're not allowed to bring a kettle as well :')
which kid sold paninis to make them ban panini presses?
as a trans girl, it makes me so happy to see all the representation that u show to the trans community
Have you came out yet? From a trans guy
same im a trans male tho
I believe the only reason she does that is for diversity or the color scheme
you will never be a woman, sorry
Same I’m trans male i feel like a lot of the time non lgbtq+ people dont mention us and its nice to see people recognizing us more
I love how Kayla puts LGBTQIA+ flags in some of her builds.
I love when people gets so emotional about a fucking flag
@@OmurUla why are you so mad about it
omfg the fist build i ever did was a house for me and my IRL best friend, and i made the house to be massive, pretty much empty, and there was one room filled entirely with gay flags-- i stg my building skill shave gotten better, but i forgot about that, and honestly, stan 6th grade me
@@lydia7598 they aren’t mad they are just saying they are happy about it
@@yuhhbiscuit It was sarcasm. It's similar to what I said on a previous video with her making a sim and using "they" and people had a massive emotional breakdown over it.. It's really weird that people get so emotional over these tiny things like they're looking for validation from any other source other than themselves and the people they care about.. Like yeah it's nice she uses the flags, but bringing attention to it is what makes it weird. Also, she usually uses the flags because they fit the color theme and are a very nice option for wall decorations in terms of size and looks compared to other things.
Just go and look at the other comments about the flag and how people are so emotional over it.. it's not healthy at all to be that emotional over some random person hanging a flag.
Me, a previously homeschooled child who went to community college followed by online university...completely detached from the dorm experience...except through my husband's experiences 😂😂
I always get a little happy when I see that kayak puts lgbtqia+ flags in her builds and makes them work. There’s not a lot of good queer representation out in the world so thanks kiwi. I know it’s a small detail but it makes me happy that one of my favorite you tubers is inclusive.
Kayak 💀
@painty Stan kazoo
@painty omfg her name is Kayla 💀💀💀 someone called her kayak and u called her Kelly wtf
KAYAK????
@@carabrundle4740 it’s an inside joke lol
When I was in college in 1977, the women had one dorm and the men the other. We were across the quad from each other with the admin building at the top of the U shaped street. The rooms had built in beds, shelves and desks. Painting the rooms was right out. I had a stereo/cassette player/record player deck, my clothes and books, and bedding. There was no option for painting walls (didn't even occur to me). Minimalistic moving in and out was nice.
kayla: "they already have emergency instructions on the door, it's fine."
me: *looks over at my door and sees fire escape route* "yep"
Would love to see you making a "behind the scenes special". Like how you collect ur ideas and how u choose the order, especially with ur merch along with it now. Would love to watch that. ❤️
I live in an apartment off campus but I’m definitely gonna take inspiration from this for my bedroom. Also might be fun and quirky and redesign dorms in Sims 4 instead of doing my homework 🤪
Sims 4 dorms have made me terrified of college. Like bruh if they look like that, then I’ll really have even more reason to be anxious.
😂😂😂
College, like many parts of society, is engineered on purpose to accommodate the average person. It's not glamorous, but it is designed in such a way that the average person will be able to succeed. And in the US at least, schools are required by law to provide accommodation for people with disability as well.
In my experience, college was much better than high school. (Graduate school was hell though, so only do that if you really need to)
They look much, much worse actually
The dorm of my university was ok. So there is hope 😅?
I don't mean to be bearer of bad news but they are much worse in real life. They are much more cramped and tiny than this. The freshman dorms at my university are legit only long enough to fit two twin beds and two end tables. It's not worth it, especially adding around 20k+ in total cost to your student loans. it's why I went to university near me so I could live at home and it's so much better.
I'm about to run a tabletop roleplaying game set in a college. I've never gone to college, so hearing you talk about dorms and stuff was super helpful and I got to take some notes! Thank you for inadvertently being part of my prep work! 😂
8:34 "Some knives?" Yes, right above the head of the bed, perfect place for some knives
Dorm life is a struggle. Someone literally peed in the stairwell of my dorm building over the weekend
i used to live on the top floor of my building and one weekend someone puked in the elevator and the building's ra didn't know about it, so it was just in there all weekend. and with covid there was only one stairwell you were allowed to use, to make cleaning easier, so everyone was in there all the time and it was so discusting. dorm life really is something else rip
that is so college 😭
Ahh yes, everyone's second choice when it comes to bathrooms... stairwells
For what-
Somebody got drunk and threw up in our community water fountain..... she didnt live in our dorm..... she didnt even go to our school
If the roommates that don't like each other were real, I can tell that they'd move the microwave and mini-fridge to the corner instead of being that close to one's desk.
Maybe they would keep moving it back and forth when the other is not in the room as this passive-aggressive thing.
In my college experience someone had to buy a mini fridge and microwave, I was that person (actually bought the mini fridge and acquired the microwave after my first year on campus). So.. it was close to my bed. I did share access tho.
i really appreciate how you put flags in your buildings, it means quite a lot to many people, so thank you
Kayla: "I would have been so sad if I had a lofted bed"
Me resting 5 feet up in my dorm bed: "Understandable"
@Insomnia_Gaming Exactly! I have fallen off my ladder too many times to count, usually including me letting out a very dignified squeak.
I literally have a loft bed in my room and i love it.
I love lofted beds in theory, but in practice i hate the heat rising and making me alk hot. I think if i had my own house I could alter, I could add some shelves and such to make it more appealing. I did enjoy having a half lofted bed, where there was storage space under it but nothing too crazy.
i literally just moved into my dorm yesterday simsie. thank you for this. also ngl your little encouraging speech at the end made me tear up a little. college seems scary, and i hope it feels less so soon :)
The Sims dorms are frickin massive! (I type from my very tiny dorm where I have like 3ft of floor space…)
same
My first post-college back to school season was September 2014 and I remember I went out and bought myself some new notebooks and pens to ease the transition.
Kayla: ''this mirror probably would be on the floor cause they wouldn't have the tools to mount it on the wall.''
Also Kayla: makes the room smaller
at the end the room was still way bigger than my freshman college dorm room
kalya: "you guys dont even know im gonna clutter this so much."
me with my 25,000 simolieon dorm room with NO wall space: 👁👄👁
This seems like the perfect setting for a enemies to friends to lovers series
I read the title as “creating my dream DOOM room” and I was super pumped. Still enjoyed the build but was prepared for a dungeon 😂
My dorm is that decorated… it helps to overdecorate so you don’t miss home lmao. But to be fair I have a single and my RE doesn’t really care about the rules (the stupid ones such as no candles)
Kayla your videos are one of the only consistent things in life that bring me comfort thank you for doing what you do❤️
I love and appreciate how supportive you are of the lgbtq+ community
kayla saying “you got this” really hit different. college has been tough so far but thankfully your videos have been keeping me happy.
Honestly, I finished my degree in June and I recently bought the University pack on sale, so now that I’m not going back to school I can fill that void by sending my Sims to university and pretend
i’ve just had a terrible day…i needed this video ❤️❤️ and ya you TOTALLY should make a sim and play uni!!!
At my university in Kent, UK, each flat (apartment) had 6 bedrooms each with their own en suite and a communal kitchen to share between your flat mates. I think my building had 12 flats, and the same amount on the other side of the building. It was a great experience but I cannot imagine not having a kitchen or my own bathroom
Video idea inspired by deligracy: turn Eliza Pancakes into every occult (giving her a makeover for each one)!
I had a dorm apartment in college, we paid extra. 4 beds 4 baths, so had my own room and a bathroom, with a shared living and kitchen space. Shared the apartment with three other people. Our rooms were super small but it came with a decent amount of moveable furniture so I was able to make myself a massive desk with all of the dressers. It was super useful while doing class online.
I’m a college sophomore but this will be my first year living on campus because of Covid. My move in day is next week so this was a really cool video to see!!
kayla reached her target audience with that thumbnail 😭😭😭
Kayla: “it’s impractical to decorate a dorm this much”
Me and my roommate with our very extra dorm room : 👀
i’m so grateful that my college had apartment-style dorms. 4 bedrooms so no sharing a room, two bathrooms (toilet in each, a shower in one and a tub-shower in the other) with sinks in the space between the two. and a full kitchen and living room
I went to college back in the 90s, but one of my dorm rooms had the built-in closet, desk, dresser/storage area along one wall. You could bunk the beds to save floor space. No sink in the room. You could bring a mini fridge and a microwave, but no other cooking appliance. I also stayed in a dorm that had a very industrial-looking (exposed pipes) sink in the room. We were not allowed to paint the walls, so people would hang up blankets and curtains.
I'm not going to lie, I saw the trans flag and LITERALLY jumped
Sameee
Sameeeee
At least I'm not the only one lol
SAME omg
This just confirmed that i see pride flags before anything else in an image
i've said this once and i'll stay this again, we stan a trans ally.
edit: y'all i can't-
right. but the bare minimum though
@@gleetching shut
@@gleetching wut
@@lininacrowne1941 hey its actually extremely uncool to make assumptions like that. :)
@@gleetching right
Anybody else never get to experience the dorm life? I feel like I missed out
You're not alone. A year ago I dreamed of living in a dorm, not having to wake up two hours before class, communicating with other students literally 24/7, it all sounds so great! However, in my uni you could live in a dorm only if you are from a different city. So I have to take an hour long metro ride to get to university and I get to talk with other students only during breaks, rip
I love this, I feel like it's realistic as well! (I graduated college in 2020)
So my last two years I lived in an on campus apartment, but this is very reminiscent of my first two years in the dorms (I was in the same building). We had the "suite style" as they called it where my roommate and I shared a "bathroom" (which was really only a toilet and shower) with two other girls, and we had a sink in the room.
And yes the microfridge! (our dorm came with one) I remember being so excited when university came out because it had the familiar microfridge haha. But yeah our dorm was pretty strict, we were able to have like fairy lights but NO CANDLES or any other fire hazard (like hotplates)
At my school there was basically upperclassmen dorms, sophomore dorms, and freshmen dorms. Because of a complication I never lived in the freshmen dorms as a freshmen, I just did the same sophomore building twice for 2 years. But these were the differences:
Sophomores: a kitchenette with a half size (slightly bigger than a mini I think?) Fridge and a microwave. A suite for 4 people, 2 to each room. And a bathroom in the suite for all 4 people to share.
Upperclassmen: a full kitchen, many cabinets, full size fridge with a freezer, oven/stove, and microwave. 4 rooms in a suite, 2 people in each room, so 8 total. Two bathrooms in each suite, one on each side, so there is (theoretically) 4 to each bathroom.
My school didn't have forced dorming in any way but they had a forced meal plan. If you lived on campus you were auto enrolled in the meal plan, even if you didn't want it, it was part of the bill.
My trans heart when i see the transflag: **happy noises**
me too :)
SAMEE
Yeah same :P
Multiple unmatching wood tones seems pretty accurate.
i litterally love her for putting pride flags in their builds-
Energy in this video is so nice and cozy.
At my school (in Massachusetts) we had one traditional/freshman dorm: doubles off a hallway, but all the others were different. After freshman year, I had a full kitchen: there was a stove and a sink and a fridge, along with counter space and a table, and a living room with couches. There were two doubles and two singles, two toilets and two showers in there.
There were also these weird condo style dorm that had their own kitchen that had anywhere from 4 to 13 students (the 13 person ones took up 3 floors) and another building with two doubles off a shared entryway with a toilet and shower.
I can't wait to have a dorm when I go to college.
As an European, I could never imagine sharing a dorm with a person my age at the stage of a young adult. I need privacy and the thought of the bathroom situation is making me even more anxious. I am still traumatised by my last school trip in 8th grade where I avoided the toilet for 5 days. That was a lot of physical pain lol.
(I'm referring to the natural stinky situations, I was able to let out the water)
I was randomly assigned my roommate and I’m about to lose my mind. You’re so right about the anxiety. My roommate doesn’t understand boundaries and I feel like i have no real privacy.
Our bathrooms haven’t been awful, but I think my roommate is so bad that a community bathroom feels like more privacy than my room.
Yeah, at least here in Spain the standard is to rent an apartment with other students or friends and you get your own room.
I did however share a room in my first year, when I lived in my uni's campus apartments. My roommate was nice but it was awful not having privacy. I noped the f out of there as soon as I found a regular apartment that was looking for a roommate.
@@taylorstacy8031 I understand, I also had a horrible roommate last year. If you have bad anxiety you might qualify for a medical single. At most schools there's an option to get a single room for the price of a double with a note from a doctor. Honestly saved me lol
i graduated in may and literally didn't start working until a week ago just so i could get that "back to school" feeling but next year it's definitely gonna be weird when september comes around and... nothing in my life changes lol
Hampers!! It took me the whole video to think of something you'd need specifically in a dorm room and then she didn't put them lol dang it! 😂 Ur dorm looks a lot cuter than mine did, simsie 💕
I actually had a really nice dorm and dorm experience surprisingly. The dorms I stayed in were hotel style, 2 roommates and there was a huge vanity area with 2 sinks with many cabinets and a private bathroom, it also had a huge window. And the walls were drywall! And each floor in the dorms had a full kitchen: cabinet space, huge stainless steel fridge and range, and a island and couches with a TV (I never used the kitchens)
WAIT THE FLAGS BASE GAME? OH MY IM PUTTING TRANS FLAG IN EVERY BUILD!
YEAH OMG!!!
i put pride flags in all my builds lmao
I never put flags cuz my parents are home of phobic and im scared they'll disown me sjusaiosjzks
@@plantana9050 if they don't know what flags are just tell them its just cool colours
@@ElfsArt24 they know
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as someone who's literally starting uni kinda this week / next week and being an anxious wreck, having kayla tell me I got this was kinda needed
i literally started bawling after this intro. im going through the same feeling of not going back to school. i have not been able to talk about it to anyone and its so validating to hear im not alone. thank you kayla
0:04 simsie it was the perfect moment to say dormally
I love how Kayla supports the LGBTQ+ community and sometimes puts pride flags in her builds. As a part of the community myself I greatly appreciate it.
It's such a small little gesture and it feels so good.
Loved being on my own, hated being away for school. Definitely a love hate relationship with my dorm room 🙃
Was I the only one who always broke the no candle rule?? Always just stashed them away when I hear they were going to do room checks 🤭😂
i had some i put on those warmer plates and the RA still took them even though I wasn't burning them 😭
When I got discover university I was SHOOK at the sharing rooms and no kitchen situation 😂😂 (I'm from UK)
I had to change the bathroom middle section to a common room. Change all the bedrooms to single rooms (and make one of them a bathroom), then cheat to make a kitchen and cheat with a stove!
'Some knives?' 😂😂Right above the head of the bed 8:34, made me laugh
Wow I've never been this early
Same
it’s such a little thing but the trans flag made me SO happy literally brightened up my whole day :]]
Same
imagine needing approval and recognition so bad that a random person on the internet barely acknowledging it by using it to fill up wall space in a video game “brightens your whole day” LMFAO pathetic
@@shelbyann758 your pathetic, seeing representation is a big deal especially for people who have been discriminated, seeing that people care acknowledge is pretty nice and gives a good feeling. I’m sorry you don’t understand
Imagine being such an asshole that someone being happy triggers you to say mean things to them.
@@shelbyann758 seeing representation even in small ways makes people happy. also its called hyperbole- exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
I totally empathise with how you feel about finishing University. I’m in my ninth year of uni (I’m doing a doctorate) and I really don’t know what I’m going to do with myself when I finish. I wonder how many other people buy the University sims pack to fill the void 😂 I almost always put my sims through the stress of University, for some reason it makes me feel better.
Well, you are technically getting that doctorate so you can work in a very specific field, right? That's the only reason people get doctorates - so they can do that very specific niche work.
I took a year off from school, during which I purchased the Sims University pack... you're not alone lol
I go to a STEM and Arts highschool and our dorms (we're required to live on campus and most of us only go home once a month or less) are very similar to college dorms. We are however spoiled because we have suite-style rooms :)
We're allowed Keurig-style coffee pots and electric kettles and mini-fridges, but no personal microwaves. We can use command strips and such but we can't hang curtains and we have weekly room inspections so paint is a no-no. I don't know how many RMs and the like colleges have but each residential hall has 2 per floor, with the exception of first floor because there's not as many students. The dorms are really nice here and we get lots of storage space in the closet. I am going to be very let down when I live in college dorms, I think.
My firstyear dorm was very similar to this. Cinderblock walls, chunky furniture that was hard to move. There was no way to loft our beds but we could raise them up higher for added under-bed storage.
We also had the sink in the corner up against the windows with a single wall separating it, and then along the rest of the wall were 2 built in closets (one for each roommate).
Kayla is the only ally Sims youtuber I watch that just, adds pride flags to some of her builds that gives backstories to sims that aren't even made. Also, she does charity streams for St Jude, Able Gamers, and Transgender Law Center, not only having watchers donate but donating herself too. It makes me emotional how much she cares. She's such a sweetheart.
my school doesn’t allow any of the things you mentioned in our dorms but they don’t check lol. however i go to a residential college (meaning you have to live on campus all 4 years), so it sucks not being able to have a microwave/hot plate/etc and having to eat ALL of your meals at a dining hall for 4 years
That would be un-“pleasant” get it bc the pleasants came in with discover university 😭
In my old college in Canada, we could have small appliances as long as they had an auto-shut off. So I made Kraft Dinner in my rice cooker! @ anyone going to dorms: When making rice, adding canned corn and things like Sazon Goya packets makes it a lot tastier! You just put them in with the rice before setting it to Cook
Just make sure the cooker fits your dorm's rules, and follow the instructions/tutorials
this is my second year of uni and i am still all online
"how were your dorms?"
*stares in european, living in a student apartment all alone*
Saaame :D I have my own kitchen, bathroom, everything. I can't imagine sharing a ROOM with another person. I've had flatmates in the past but even that was too much for me lol.
University in the US sounds so weird, expensive and uneccesarily complicated °-°
I'm starting my first semester on campus but being european I just have to take the subway to the inner city each day and not live with strangers
It makes me so happy that she put a pride flag in there! 😭❤️
I went to University and we had best doorms in country (Latvia, Europe). They are small appartment style: super small entrance way with build in closet and fridge if you had one (or was left from previous students) and mirror, then 2 small rooms for 4 students and decent sized bathroom. Each floor had 2 kitchens. We could mount things on wall and had to bring our own furniture. Rooms only had 2 beds. We had to clean our rooms ourselves including bathroom. We also could organize parties in dorms like typical American comedies show! A lot of fun memories from that time. Price was super affordable as well. You could also choose your roommates in advance if you went there with friends.
My university is unique. The freshman dorms don’t have kitchens, but the upperclassmen live in apartment and have kitchens. It’s so nice. Although no one knows how to cook, so the fire alarm is constantly going off, lol.
As a queer person, it means a lot that you just casually place the pride flags in your builds! 💙💗
We love trans allies 🏳️⚧️
thank you. thank you for adding that trans flag, it means a lot to have representation to us from semi big creators, i really appreciate you supporting us how you do
I went to college in Valdosta Georgia and we also had the cinder block walls and we had a sink area in our room because our floor shared a bathroom and our sink area was huge so I think having the three counters would’ve been normal in my experience! Love your reno though Kayla!!
I'm so jealous of students who get a sink area in their rooms. In my dorms we have to use the communal sinks for everything. It's almost impossible to get a sink in the morning when 30 people are sharing 5 of them.
I live in Sweden with my bf in a student apartment. Here it's normal to rent your own small apartment as a student (a living room/bedroom, a bathroom and a place to cook your food). Usually it comes with the most necessary furniture (bed, table, 4 chairs, desktop + chair) but in the bigger apartment, like ours, you bring your own furniture.
You can decorate as you like it! The only thing you can't have in the apartments with furnitures that's not yours are animals. Otherwise, you decorate with whatever you'd like :)
I love that not only did she put a pride flag,she also mentioned it AND explained it was base game,etc. An ally we need honestly.
it makes me so sad to see the lipstick lesbian flag in the basegame items ;(
but i'm glad they put the sunset one too, i love that they even put the flags in there in the first place
I can’t believe how Americans can’t cook their own meals at uni, that’s scalping. My first year at uni I had my own room and en suite, a kitchen, and a living room - all for £98 a week. And that’s cheap accommodation
omfgs where's that lol
I love this series! I don’t even know anything about the back rooms but this series is amazing backrooms related or not! Also with the quality of stories and art you have been producing you totally deserve a break!
i LOVE when lilsimsie just decorates one room at a time because she puts so much detail and clutter in it and i love it