Deckin’out your dorm in style

DOMENIQUE PINHO STAFFWRITER DDP722@CABRINI EDU

It is mid- summer and you call up your roommate and you both begin to wonder how big your dorm is and where it’s located. During the conversation you question each other on what items you are going to bring into your new home and what colors you should decorate the room. The end of August approaches and you enter your new pad. Unfurnished and very plain, you think to yourself, “Wow. Where do I begin?”

College students find it hard to decorate their dorm room for many reasons. First, the room is just simply too small to decorate, or secondly because you just don’t know how. Decorating your dorm can be fun and adding your own style to your section of the room is what makes the room unique. Here’s some ideas that others on campus have found helpful.

Chris Mindnich, a sophomore, said his favorite decorative item in his room is a poster. “I like my poster of Jessica Alba.”

Katie McCue, a freshman, said that her favorite decorative item in her room is her Bob Dylan poster. Having posters lined up on your wall is a great conversation starter. For example, if you have a poster of your favorite band or your future celebrity spouse, it is a great way to strike up a conversation when new people enter your dorm room, and are generally fun to look at.

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ASHLEY RANDAZZO STAFFWRITER AAR722@CABRINI EDU

SHANE EVANS STAFF WRITER SME722@CABRINI EDU

When it comes right down to it, there are a few things in this world that we depend on. There are the obvious things like air and water and the sun. They basically keep us alive. But that’s a given. Then we have friends and family, the people we trust. We need those people in our lives to help us with our problems and to support us when we need it. That is also a given.

Finally, we have that one thing everyone needs. Everyone has to have it to survive in one way or another. Everyone wants to have more of it. It’s pretty much one of the most essential things in life: money.

Money is, without a doubt, a huge factor in any college student’s life, not to many any other human being. When you have it, life seems easier, and when you don’t, well, once again, that’s a given.

If you are your typical college student, money is something that comes and goes quite frequently, and plays a huge roll in your everyday life. Many students will tell you that when it comes to cash, living at school will have you living the hard-knock life.

“It’s just so much easier to spend money while I’m at school because I have so much more freedom than I do at home. A quick trip to Wawa or ordering some food from Campus Corner basically runs me dry. At home, there is food in the house or I can get my parents to cook for me. Basically, the majority of my money goes to food,”students said.

Many of the students here at Cabrini agree with sophomore English communication major Joe Zahn. Food is one of the most fiscally draining things to deal with at school, which is pretty bewildering being that we have dining services at our disposal.

Not to mention the fact that one of the biggest malls in the whole country is less than ten minutes away from campus. That takes a big chunk out of the budget of many of the student body.

Annette Donato, a sophomore accounting major concurs, “Being at Cabrini with access to a debit card and no parents to yell at you every time you use it is hard. Especially with campus

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Lighting is especially important when decorating your dorm room. Adding Christmas lights to your dorm room not only brightens up the light one section of your dorm room. Candles are also a great way to decorate your room. According to HGTV.com, “Candles are always holidays. Katelyn Penrose, a sophomore Elementry Education major, uses Christmas lights and a fake Christmas tree in her decorating process. “Me and my roommate love to get in the holiday spirit, and the best way to do that is decorating your room,” Penrose said. Sometimes people feel as if it is hard to keep a color scheme that would work all year round. This is a terrible misconception because for every group of colors, there is certainly a hue that is acceptable all year round. When decorating a room it is always good to break up solid colors, so patterns do not clash. If you are trying to figure out which colors to use for your room, choose two main colors and an accent color For example, two great colors could be blue and yellow. If you want to add vibrancy to your space add a touch of red (the accent color). Use items such as a red throw blanket for your bed, red flowers and/or candles. corner, Wawa runs, and the KOP mall right down the road...I find the easiest way to not spend a lot is to only carry around the necessary few dollars, and leave the debit or credit cards in a drawer.”

In all, decorating your room can be fun. All you need to be is inventive and unique and in the end its almost guaranteed you will be satisfied with the outcome.

That, however, is easier said than done for the majority of the student body. Marvin Webster, a sophomore bio/pre-med major has a more simplistic and philosophical approach to holding onto his ‘dinero.’

“Spend within your means, take care of your needs first, then your wants,” he said.

If we all could live like that, there would be a lot less ‘mooching’going on, and a lot more happy students. Granted, many of us work for a living, which does ease the stress on our pocketbooks, but the fact that we live alone and have the freedom to spend sporadically, will always guarantee that the good old green-backs will never stay in our possession for too long.

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Google me this, Google me that!

Google is now one of the largest search engines on the planet and has beaten out competition from Microsoft and Yahoo together. Although nothing is set in stone, there are many theories where Google will go next. The sky’s the limit, and Google will soon be there too!

They now have contracts with NASAfor research projects, nanotechnology and the entrepreneurial space industry. Bringing information to average people is the main business for Yahoo and Microsoft, but Google could be working on anything from FREE wireless internet access around the country to launching complete libraries of books for readers to access anytime, at no charge.

Plans are in the works for complete books to be scanned and have complete text be searchable on the internet. The real test now is to see how much this will benefit those with computers right from their own home. It’s a chance to skip the library and find sources from one place. Although some publishers are wary about the attempts to do this, Google is looking into it further to make sure no one loses money on this deal.

Not just in the elevators and food stores anymore… If you’re scheduled for surgery you may not only be dealing with the doctor’s voice stirring up in your head, but the sound of a few known oldies or maybe the styling of a contemporary artist.

In Chicago, Illinois using music in operating rooms is becoming very normal to doctors due to the wide popularity of music and the way it relaxes them in order to perform the best possible surgery. There are studies that have shown that the music played in the operating room benefits the patient in the result that the music could reduce the need for anesthesia when going under the knife.

Though every surgeon is different, it is up to the anesthesiologist to decide what to put on the CD player, depending on the tastes of the surgeon of course. Any requests?

The next generation of music...

The fact that iPod became the best seller of all MP3s in history is just not enough anymore. Another plan is in the works for a new addition to the iPod family.

The iPod Nano was introduced just a few weeks ago to the public, but now Apple Computer Inc. has an even bigger idea to make some serious money. Now not only will your iPod play music, it will be video enabled! This is the latest edition to the iPod family and consumers will sure to love this iPod as much as the other models.