In her famous extended essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf discusses the importance of a woman having her own space to write and educate herself in. She writes, “Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.” Here at UVM, students take advantage of their cinderblock boxes for the year, shrouding their walls in posters and piling their beds with pillows, letting their personality, passions and perfume take control. Below are a few dorms that encapsulate their owners, despite their stay being temporary.
