Flickr Finds: Dorm Room With a View

We cannot stress the importance of building a calm surrounding for your hectic workspace. It helps to be able to instantly cut working tension by looking up at a stellar view. Good advice for anyone, but especially for university students getting back into the groove...

Even if your desk can't overlook a gorgeous urban garden scene, it's never too late to think about the view from your desk.

Even in the most seemingly un-glamorous of situations—a college dorm room—you can still get a vista view of your school's historic landscape and architecture. (Bonus: A great view will distract from that less-than-sexy dorm-issue furniture.)

This Flickr user posted this image of his desk perched in front of his window at the University of Washington in Seattle that shows a birds-eye view of campus. It's the perfect spot to crack open a Red Bull and take a breather from an all-nighter!

Image from Jack Brodus at Flickr with a Creative Commons license.

Comments (4)

wow, my old dorm room didn't have a window that big or nice.
and the windows only opened a few inches because I guess nyc students like to jump out their windows? we weren't allowed on the balcony on the top floor either :(

posted by witchbaby on August 7th 2009 at 9:16am
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When I was at Bowling Green my windows didn't open at all... but that was offset by the fact I was on the 8th floor and the windows were the entire west facing wall on my room: two 4'x5' windows. Watching the sun set was quite spectacular.

posted by yakimushi on August 7th 2009 at 10:45am
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we had a huge windows we could open, i guess WMU doesn't care about Jumpers.

Nice big window with a scenic view of a parking lot and a dumpster... So romantic when the light from the setting sun bounced off of the dumpster, almost intoxicating (or that might have just been the dumpster itself...)

posted by jmorey on August 7th 2009 at 11:18am
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The Dreamcast adds a nice touch... :)

posted by Brian D on August 7th 2009 at 7:37pm
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