How to Clean Your Room

First, you have to get into the mindset for cleaning your room. Turn on some music. Lay on your bed for a moment to enjoy the music. It’s 1pm; you have plenty of time to get your H homework done and to practice your instrument and get to the gym and clean because you have F free. Wake up six hours later at 7pm, disoriented and probably on stricts. Now that you’ve gotten into the cleaning mindset, start by staring at the floor. Survey the room. You have posters to hang back up, and maybe some crumbs to clean. It might be a good idea to feed your fish too. And considering how difficult it is to determine if your fish is in the tank, you might want to clean that too. Take a deep breath. Notice that jacket right there? Pick it up--yep, you got it, you’re moving to the closet, this is going well. Okay now--NO! STOP! DON’T PUT YOUR COAT DOWN ON THE CHAIR.

Okay, that’s okay. We all have our setbacks. Try picking up the sunflower seeds strewn on the floor. Hmm, I guess your fingers aren’t as spry as they used to be. But they’re spry enough for what’s important ;).  Head to the Common Room to grab the vacuum. Don’t socialize, do not soci--Wait! They have some tea. You can stay for a minute or two.

So it’s 9. That’s alright. Make sure that you tell your roommate to check-in in the common room, so that dorm fac don’t come into your room and give you 7’s. Now start-- It’s HQ time! Once you finish HQ, it’s EP time. You have a special date with your boyfriend pillow.

Once you get back from EP, RIP the “Eviction Notice” sign off of your door that your roommate posted for not cleaning. Recycle it. This is the first step! Now move some of your clothes and shove them into a) the dresser b) the closet c) under the bed. Pick your illusion of choice.

It’s time to clean. Really. For real. You get ready to clean but--you know, you’re kind of tired. And it’s getting late. You have to be up at 5a.m. to...do your bio reading. It’s too late to clean now, you’d be too distracted. Brush the crumbs off of your bed, and maybe move the slice of pizza that’s flipped over on the sheets. Hold up, you’re not going to eat that are you? I don’t care if you missed dinner because of your nap. That’s kind of disgusting actually. I guess you’ll have to clean tomorrow.

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