Hopkins Cribs: Off Campus Apartment

To all recently admitted Hopkins students: Congratulations! All of us at Hopkins Interactive decided to post our Cribs blogs so that you could get an idea of what your Hopkins digs will be like next year.

So, here's my front door. That sign on the door says "Enter the 90s"... we were throwing a 90s party last night! Note the fabulous green/brown door frame/door combo. That was not my decision, by the way.

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This is my little chest of drawers that serves as our "put stuff on it when you walk in" table. It's right there when you walk in. I got this on the curbside in Alexandria -- for free! Alexandria has some really rich neighborhoods and they always have garbage day on the same day of the week so you can drive around and find furniture on the curb the night before.

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This is my fabulous living room. That amazing green leather couch there? That was free on Craigslist. That overstuffed Ethan Allen chair? Also, free on Craigslist. I love Craigslist.

The 90s party can be revealed here in the remarkable arrangement of things on the coffee table: RING POPS, Gushers, Fruit Roll-Ups, and PUSH POPS. Yes, you read that right dear readers.

This is our "Entertainment Center", with shelving we acquired free from a friend who was moving out. That is a SNES (pronounced "snez") you see there -- Mario Kart tournaments? Why of course.

This was the triumph of our 90s party. We obtained a projector from our friend Nicole and projected "Clueless" silently on the wall of the party. GENIUS.

This is my amazing Motion Wall Art that I obtained from winning 2nd prize in the Gushers "Redo Your Room Sweepstakes". It's a light up fish tank! They swim around!

It provided amazing mood lighting during the party. You know you're jealous.

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Here's the other side of our living room, focused on my really fun map of the United Kingdom which I have from London. All of my friends from abroad wrote on the map, and I had it framed when I got back here. So many good memories wrapped up in that map. I miss you guys, London!

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Here's our cramped little kitchen. This is literally a shot from the doorway that leads into the kitchen. It's like a narrow little hallway with some appliances on one side, but you learn to work with it. It's the one downside to our apartment, but oh well.

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Here's a picture of half of our kitchen..the rest of the sink is there on the left, and you can see our fridge and our shelf we put in there for additional storage/ you can use the top as counter space. The kitchen is all about creative arrangement of appliances... my KitchenAid mixer is in the narrow space between the sink and the fridge (You can see the very edge in this photo), and our microwave sits on top of the fridge.

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Here's my beautiful bedroom! The bed has about 3 layers of down on it, it's one of the most comfortable beds ever. That's an arrangement of photos from London on the wall on the left, and one of my favorite Van Goghs on the wall above my bed. You can see on the left, those 3 posters one on top of each other are all posters from various plays I've been in. I have more posters from plays I've been in around the room in other spots- they're such good reminders of the awesome times those plays brought up.

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This is my desk, known as the "desk of no return". I could not name anything that's actually on it. It's a mess of stuff. That's my hole puncher on the left, the tall gold can is spray polyurethane from when I reupholstered that rocking chair, and anything else is anyone else's guess.

 

This is a nice artsy shot of my window/my wonderful Loose Stone sign that was acquired with a group of friends on a particularly awesome trip to a time share in North Carolina. The warning signs there were SO ODD.

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This is my photo montage of pictures from home. I'm a big fan of these frames where you can stick a bunch of different photos in them. The photo on the bottom right is one of my favorites- it's me as a flower girl at my aunt's wedding, and my mom (in the bright blue 80s bridesmaid dress she was in) talking to me and coaching me on my flower girlness. Love!
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Finally, here's my bathroom. There's a nice new cabinet/sink there and my fabulous shower curtain. One of the best parts about these apartments is that the 2 bedroom ones used to be efficiencies, so each bedroom has its own bathroom. It's the first year I've had my very own bathroom and I LOVE it.

So that's the tour of my apartment. To all of the future Blue Jays- congrats again, and good luck with your decisions this month!

Comments

[JHU_Kate]

Oooooh, I really like that photo montage. :)

[Jackie]

My friend just had a 90's party and she dressed up as Cher from Clueless. Also, your bed does sound amazing! I can't wait untiL i get to have a bigger bed at school!