College students learning from home turn bedrooms into dorm rooms

Decorating dorm rooms is a tradition for college students, but with many finding themselves learning from home, some are now turning their bedrooms into dorm rooms.

News 12 Staff

Sep 17, 2020, 10:09 PM

Updated 1,309 days ago

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Decorating dorm rooms is a tradition for college students, but with many finding themselves learning from home, some are now turning their bedrooms into dorm rooms.
Instead of heading off to her dream school, University of Pennsylvania freshman Sydney Grant is now learning at home.
Grant and her mom decided to make the best of it by turning her childhood bedroom into a pseudo dorm room.
"We have the collage with all of the people," said Grant. "I didn't really have that before. I added my UPenn sign. I put my bed at a different angle."
But for other families, the challenges are a little bit different, like the Brams in Huntington. They have two students taking classes from home.
Rachel is a grad student at Simmons University and her brother Alex is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon. The family had to figure out how to make virtual learning work for both of them.
"Last semester we both worked in the same room, which was fine because his classes he didn't have to meet, he was just doing homework," said Rachel Bram. "So he worked in that corner and I worked in this corner. But it wasn't really going to work this semester when he has synchronous classes."
Rachel Bram has her learning space in a room off of her family's living room and a 6-foot folding table was set up in Alex Bram's bedroom for his computer.
Rachel Bram says the arrangement is working fine for now, but she hopes she will soon be heading to Boston to see her friends and really experience grad school.
"I want to do it as safely as possible. I am not rushing anything at all, but I do want to get to Boston eventually," she said.


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