If you'll be accepted to Hopkins and choose to come here for college, then you'll want to have an idea of what your future living situation is like. That's why there's Hopkins Interactive, and that's why last year's bloggers wrote "Hopkins Cribs" entries. While last year's set of "Hopkins Cribs" entries were great, the eight of them didn't scratch the surface in terms of the different types of bedrooms offered in on-campus housing! During the summer before my freshman year--that was just the previous summer--while I thought that those "Hopkins Cribs" entries gave me good ideas on how to decorate my room on a small budget, I was disappointed that none of them discussed life in the AMRs. None of the then-bloggers (who are still bloggers) lived in either AMR! Horrors.
Here comes the good part. This year, Hopkins Interactive is doing another round of "Hopkins Cribs" blog entries, and this is one of three AMR "Hopkins Cribs" blog entries! (JHU_Jackie, a fellow AMR I resident, and JHU_Roxi, who proudly represents AMR II, are the authors of the other two AMR "Hopkins Cribs" blog entries this year.) Be excited. Be very excited.
We'll start with a view of my room's door from the hallway. You might notice that there are decorations and name tags on my door; this is because every house or floor of an on-campus residence is decorated according to a 
theme chosen by that house's or floor's RA. The RA of the house in AMR I where I live chose to decorate our house with a superhero theme. Anyway, open my door, and voila! The second photo is a view of the room that my roommate and I share through our doorway; the left side of the room is mine, and the right side of my room--which is partly visible--is my roommate's. While you can't see most of her side of the room, keep in mind that our sides of the room mirror each other in terms of furniture arrangement. In the second photo, you can see that my roommate and I have our wardrobes and dressers placed back-to-back. 
This not only helps to create a clear division of our room so that we know which side is whose, but also gives us some privacy. While we're lying on our beds, our wardrobes and dressers prevent us from seeing each other sleeping--and drooling in our sleep. In addition, we can change while we're both in the room without worrying about being seen by the other person. All that we need to do is to change while standing behind our wardrobes. To maximize our privacy, we open the wardrobe door closest to our bedroom's entrance and change while standing behind the open wardrobe door. Isn't that dandy?
On to the third photo. While the second photo gives you a glimpse of my cork-covered wall, the third photo gives you a wonderful view of it! At least one wall in each room of AMR I and Buildings A and B is covered with cork. In our room, two out of four walls are covered with cork: the wall next to my bed and behind my desk and the wall next to my roommate's bed and behind her desk. 
The fourth photo gives you a view of my desk and part of the non-cork-covered wall to the left of my desk. You might notice in the fourth photo that there's a telephone on my desk; every room comes with one telephone that can receive calls from any telephone number at no cost, and from which calls can be made to any campus telephone number 
at no cost. There's a fee, however, for using the room telephone to make calls to non-campus telephone numbers; therefore, like many other freshmen, my roommate and I hardly use the telephone in our room and use our own cell phones instead. The fifth photo is of the wall to the left of my desk. At the left side of the photo is the MicroFridge that my roommate and I share, with my roommate's water pitcher adorning it. 
A MicroFridge--which is rented out by a local company called King Metro Rentals (fliers about the MicroFridge were mailed to us freshmen in the summer before we came to Hopkins)--is an appliance that has a microwave, freezer, and refrigerator combined. For residents of the AMRs and Buildings A and B, renting a MicroFridge is the only way to have a microwave in one's room; residents of those buildings aren't allowed to bring microwaves, 
although refrigerators of a certain wattage are allowed. Towards the center of the photo are my posters of Salvador Dali's Exploding Clock and Edvard Munch's The Scream accompanied by captions of my own typing. The sixth and seventh photos are views of our room door (a) closed and (b) open. As you can see in the photo in which our door is closed, there are two towel racks screwed onto the door.
Now that you have a general view of a lovely AMR I room (a.k.a. the room that my roommate and I share), here are some photos with some details of the aforementioned room. 
The eighth photo in this entry shows the window ledge behind my bed, which is a cute nook on which I have some books, my alarm clock, a wonderful brain wind-up toy (courtesy of one of the neuroscience program's information sessions), a crab stuffed animal (the Chesapeake Bay is known for its crabs), a lamp, and a Patrick the Starfish 
"Beanie Baby." Shown in the ninth photograph is a large postcard with a modern take on the "see no evil, hear no evil, talk no evil" monkeys that's on my cork-covered wall. The last two photos show our ceiling and carpet respectively.
Tra-la-la, there you go! Thanks for embarking on this tour of an AMR I room. I hope that it has helped you realize that AMR I is a very liveable dorm at Hopkins. Have a nice day!
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