kayla: "no renovations" also kayla: immediately moves the ceiling light

"idk anyone who decorated their dorm room this much" me, who went to a performing arts college: 🥴🕺🏻

Kayla: you don't need stuff on every wall My maximalist self: inconceivable!

“They don’t let you have anything that’s considered a safety hazard” Kayla: how about some KNIVES above the bed?

gods as someone who's taking a gap year the whole "Its back to school time but Im not going back to school" feeling hits so hard.

I can’t get over “Knifes?” Like she was really about to put that over that pillow lol

The way she broke every single rule she put for herself at the beginning lol

Simsie: NO FIRE THINGS NOT EVEN FARIY LIGHTS Also simsie: maybe we should put *knives* on the wall Me: 👁👄👁

It’s ironic how American universities are so expensive yet so weird compared to those around the world, like there are some beautiful FREE European universities.

The local home depot near my college had a color match for the dorm walls called "(college name) yuck" so that people could get their deposit back at the end of school years by painting any scuffs and the RAs where very bad at keeping an eye on us (🙄 caused some major issues as it was a lawless place) so I think you could have pulled it off.

My college has these rules for dorms: -no flesh-eating fish -non-flesh-eating fish can only be kept in a ten-gallon tank or smaller -no candles, coffee makers, hot plates, blenders, microwaves (only exception being a rented microwave from the school), Panini presses, crock-pots, toasters, toaster ovens, basically anything that made heat -exception was a kettle or a keurig but they had to have an automatic shutoff -every student was only allowed one UL-listed power strip -Dry campus, if you were caught with alcohol in your dorm you got kicked out

I always get a little happy when I see that kayak puts lgbtqia+ flags in her builds and makes them work. There’s not a lot of good queer representation out in the world so thanks kiwi. I know it’s a small detail but it makes me happy that one of my favorite you tubers is inclusive.

simsie looking for decorations above the bed “some knives?” lol

I had my dorm bed lofted super high and had both my dresser, with a bookcase on top, and my desk underneath. Great space saver, I loved it. Right up until I had to rush to class, slipped on my ladder and broke 2 toes on the way down.

kayla: "they already have emergency instructions on the door, it's fine." me: *looks over at my door and sees fire escape route* "yep"

as a trans girl, it makes me so happy to see all the representation that u show to the trans community

Sharing a dorm room with another student is soooo weird to me. I studied in Germany and lived in a dorm for one year. All the dorm rooms were single bed rooms. Some were like full on apartments with multiple bedrooms, one or two shared bathrooms and one shared kitchen, but never a shared bedroom! My room was equipt with a kitchen and a bathroom for my self, I didn't share anything. I wasn't allowed to bring in any new furniture or do anything permanent with the walls.

Me, a previously homeschooled child who went to community college followed by online university...completely detached from the dorm experience...except through my husband's experiences 😂😂

When I was in college in 1977, the women had one dorm and the men the other. We were across the quad from each other with the admin building at the top of the U shaped street. The rooms had built in beds, shelves and desks. Painting the rooms was right out. I had a stereo/cassette player/record player deck, my clothes and books, and bedding. There was no option for painting walls (didn't even occur to me). Minimalistic moving in and out was nice.

8:34 "Some knives?" Yes, right above the head of the bed, perfect place for some knives

I love how Kayla puts LGBTQIA+ flags in some of her builds.

If the roommates that don't like each other were real, I can tell that they'd move the microwave and mini-fridge to the corner instead of being that close to one's desk.

kalya: "you guys dont even know im gonna clutter this so much." me with my 25,000 simolieon dorm room with NO wall space: 👁👄👁

Kayla: "I would have been so sad if I had a lofted bed" Me resting 5 feet up in my dorm bed: "Understandable"

I live in an apartment off campus but I’m definitely gonna take inspiration from this for my bedroom. Also might be fun and quirky and redesign dorms in Sims 4 instead of doing my homework 🤪

Sims 4 dorms have made me terrified of college. Like bruh if they look like that, then I’ll really have even more reason to be anxious.

I read the title as “creating my dream DOOM room” and I was super pumped. Still enjoyed the build but was prepared for a dungeon 😂

I'm about to run a tabletop roleplaying game set in a college. I've never gone to college, so hearing you talk about dorms and stuff was super helpful and I got to take some notes! Thank you for inadvertently being part of my prep work! 😂

i really appreciate how you put flags in your buildings, it means quite a lot to many people, so thank you

Would love to see you making a "behind the scenes special". Like how you collect ur ideas and how u choose the order, especially with ur merch along with it now. Would love to watch that. ❤️

This seems like the perfect setting for a enemies to friends to lovers series

Kayla: ''this mirror probably would be on the floor cause they wouldn't have the tools to mount it on the wall.'' Also Kayla: makes the room smaller

Dorm life is a struggle. Someone literally peed in the stairwell of my dorm building over the weekend

Honestly, I finished my degree in June and I recently bought the University pack on sale, so now that I’m not going back to school I can fill that void by sending my Sims to university and pretend

i literally just moved into my dorm yesterday simsie. thank you for this. also ngl your little encouraging speech at the end made me tear up a little. college seems scary, and i hope it feels less so soon :)

kayla saying “you got this” really hit different. college has been tough so far but thankfully your videos have been keeping me happy.

The Sims dorms are frickin massive! (I type from my very tiny dorm where I have like 3ft of floor space…)

i love dorms but i’d never be able to live in one 😭

I love and appreciate how supportive you are of the lgbtq+ community

I went to college back in the 90s, but one of my dorm rooms had the built-in closet, desk, dresser/storage area along one wall. You could bunk the beds to save floor space. No sink in the room. You could bring a mini fridge and a microwave, but no other cooking appliance. I also stayed in a dorm that had a very industrial-looking (exposed pipes) sink in the room. We were not allowed to paint the walls, so people would hang up blankets and curtains.

My first post-college back to school season was September 2014 and I remember I went out and bought myself some new notebooks and pens to ease the transition.

My dorm is that decorated… it helps to overdecorate so you don’t miss home lmao. But to be fair I have a single and my RE doesn’t really care about the rules (the stupid ones such as no candles)

As an RA, we had similar rules. Fairy lights were allowed, just not against the ceiling. You weren't supposed to hang anything from the ceiling and were heavily encouraged to use command hooks if you were going to put things on the wall. Open heat sources weren't allowed, and extension cords were only allowed if they were a certain brand and power strips had to have a built in breaker switch. Lava lamps would have been a no, so would wax warmers and anything other than a Keurig, microwave, fridge or blender. Anything else had to be taken to the kitchen to use. Luckily and Unluckily, the main girls dorm building at my college turns 100 this year and the rooms I was in (3 different ones) One of them had a little alcove with a mirror that was probably supposed to have a sink at one point but just had a mirror. Every room came with one desk, one chair, one bed and the pieces to loft it and then one dresser. One wing had suites, one wing had double closets and shelves around the double window, the other two had a single closet and a single window. Luckily, we had two kitchens per floor, but hall bathrooms for everyone except the wing with the suites. My roommate and I lofted the beds and tucked our dressers underneath it.

I’m Swedish, so a Swedish dorms are a bit different. Where I lived, everyone had a single room. We had a sink and a bathroom mirror in our room, but we all had to share toilets and showers. We lived 24 people in my dorm-house. 24 people had to share on two kitchens (2 stoves/ovens, 2 sinks and 2 dishwashers), 6 toilets, 4 showers, 4 fridges (everyone got one shelf each), 2 freezers and one cupboard shelf each. Oh and we had a laundry room in the basement. Each room had a fire alarm that was connected with the others and send a signal to the fire station if it went off (it did one freezing November night). But no one checked our rooms for fire hazards, so candles and coffee machines were aloud. 😄

Kayla your videos are one of the only consistent things in life that bring me comfort thank you for doing what you do❤️

At my university in Kent, UK, each flat (apartment) had 6 bedrooms each with their own en suite and a communal kitchen to share between your flat mates. I think my building had 12 flats, and the same amount on the other side of the building. It was a great experience but I cannot imagine not having a kitchen or my own bathroom

I live in Sweden with my bf in a student apartment. Here it's normal to rent your own small apartment as a student (a living room/bedroom, a bathroom and a place to cook your food). Usually it comes with the most necessary furniture (bed, table, 4 chairs, desktop + chair) but in the bigger apartment, like ours, you bring your own furniture. You can decorate as you like it! The only thing you can't have in the apartments with furnitures that's not yours are animals. Otherwise, you decorate with whatever you'd like :)

At my school there was basically upperclassmen dorms, sophomore dorms, and freshmen dorms. Because of a complication I never lived in the freshmen dorms as a freshmen, I just did the same sophomore building twice for 2 years. But these were the differences: Sophomores: a kitchenette with a half size (slightly bigger than a mini I think?) Fridge and a microwave. A suite for 4 people, 2 to each room. And a bathroom in the suite for all 4 people to share. Upperclassmen: a full kitchen, many cabinets, full size fridge with a freezer, oven/stove, and microwave. 4 rooms in a suite, 2 people in each room, so 8 total. Two bathrooms in each suite, one on each side, so there is (theoretically) 4 to each bathroom. My school didn't have forced dorming in any way but they had a forced meal plan. If you lived on campus you were auto enrolled in the meal plan, even if you didn't want it, it was part of the bill.

Kayla: “it’s impractical to decorate a dorm this much” Me and my roommate with our very extra dorm room : 👀

Video idea inspired by deligracy: turn Eliza Pancakes into every occult (giving her a makeover for each one)!

i’m so grateful that my college had apartment-style dorms. 4 bedrooms so no sharing a room, two bathrooms (toilet in each, a shower in one and a tub-shower in the other) with sinks in the space between the two. and a full kitchen and living room

In my old college in Canada, we could have small appliances as long as they had an auto-shut off. So I made Kraft Dinner in my rice cooker! @ anyone going to dorms: When making rice, adding canned corn and things like Sazon Goya packets makes it a lot tastier! You just put them in with the rice before setting it to Cook Just make sure the cooker fits your dorm's rules, and follow the instructions/tutorials

i’ve just had a terrible day…i needed this video ❤️❤️ and ya you TOTALLY should make a sim and play uni!!!

kayla reached her target audience with that thumbnail 😭😭😭

I had a dorm apartment in college, we paid extra. 4 beds 4 baths, so had my own room and a bathroom, with a shared living and kitchen space. Shared the apartment with three other people. Our rooms were super small but it came with a decent amount of moveable furniture so I was able to make myself a massive desk with all of the dressers. It was super useful while doing class online.

I’m a college sophomore but this will be my first year living on campus because of Covid. My move in day is next week so this was a really cool video to see!!

i graduated in may and literally didn't start working until a week ago just so i could get that "back to school" feeling but next year it's definitely gonna be weird when september comes around and... nothing in my life changes lol

I go to a STEM and Arts highschool and our dorms (we're required to live on campus and most of us only go home once a month or less) are very similar to college dorms. We are however spoiled because we have suite-style rooms :) We're allowed Keurig-style coffee pots and electric kettles and mini-fridges, but no personal microwaves. We can use command strips and such but we can't hang curtains and we have weekly room inspections so paint is a no-no. I don't know how many RMs and the like colleges have but each residential hall has 2 per floor, with the exception of first floor because there's not as many students. The dorms are really nice here and we get lots of storage space in the closet. I am going to be very let down when I live in college dorms, I think.

in Russia, we are allowed to do whatever we want with the dorm rooms because usually the rooms are very old and they look bad so the administery doesn't really mind if we do renovations ourselves. we also can have anything and i really mean ANYTHING in our rooms i.e. we have two coffee brewers, a microwave, a ton of candles, and two kettles. Usually we already are supplied with a cooking stove, and that's it. we have to buy fridges and washers ourselves, but they're often cheap enough for students. i like dorms.

Anybody else never get to experience the dorm life? I feel like I missed out

our beds were lifted to above my elbow and my roommates used a chair to get in their beds but me much shorter jumped all year. one time i was trying to grab something under the bed and fell face first onto the concrete floor with very thin carpet. warped the enamel on my tooth and have a white line across it forever :’)

I'm in the UK and our accommodation was a lot smaller than this room (but all rooms were singles), but we did have a kitchen to share per floor, and a bathroom per floor (this may be different for campus universities). We definitely couldn't paint the walls etc, but there were no rules about what you could/couldn't have, except no smoking inside, and no one ever inspected our rooms that I know of.

The dorms I lived in college were super small and I mean small. You could have two beds two wardrobes and a long desk that was basically a large slab of like wood or something that both of you used. We had public bathrooms. Had to brush our teeth, do makeup, etc in the bathroom. There was one window. And like white concrete walls. And a mounted mirror. You had a shared kitchen in the building and couldn't have most cooking objects. You were allowed only a mini fridge but it couldn't have a freezer above it. And obviously like you could have stuff to make the food in. Oh, and walls were not sound proof 🙄 but genuinely college was a good experience

As an European, I could never imagine sharing a dorm with a person my age at the stage of a young adult. I need privacy and the thought of the bathroom situation is making me even more anxious. I am still traumatised by my last school trip in 8th grade where I avoided the toilet for 5 days. That was a lot of physical pain lol. (I'm referring to the natural stinky situations, I was able to let out the water)

i litterally love her for putting pride flags in their builds-

The college I went to where I stayed in dorms was built in 1938. Each floor had a communal bathroom and a communal kitchen. The ground floor had a commons area with couches and a big TV. It was in the Midwest, and the building had No Air-conditioning. It was torture. Both years I paid extra to have a single because the idea of sharing with a total stranger was horrendously unappealing. My 2nd year I got this teeeeeny tiny room, but it had a private bath room with its own shower. So it was worth it. Like, I literally have a walk-in closet in my house right now that is larger than that dorm room was. It had enough room for a bed, a small desk, and a gap for a ‘closet’ where I put my mini fridge.

Hampers!! It took me the whole video to think of something you'd need specifically in a dorm room and then she didn't put them lol dang it! 😂 Ur dorm looks a lot cuter than mine did, simsie 💕

I can't wait to have a dorm when I go to college.

Multiple unmatching wood tones seems pretty accurate.

I went to University and we had best doorms in country (Latvia, Europe). They are small appartment style: super small entrance way with build in closet and fridge if you had one (or was left from previous students) and mirror, then 2 small rooms for 4 students and decent sized bathroom. Each floor had 2 kitchens. We could mount things on wall and had to bring our own furniture. Rooms only had 2 beds. We had to clean our rooms ourselves including bathroom. We also could organize parties in dorms like typical American comedies show! A lot of fun memories from that time. Price was super affordable as well. You could also choose your roommates in advance if you went there with friends.

My dorm building was very old as as such, the rooms were not uniform in size or shape or quality. My roommate lucked out and got the biggest room on our floor. We had so much space and TWO windows. It was kinda the best thing ever. Minus the mice, weird temperature controls, and carpet that wore holes in your socks and turned your feet black.

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as someone who's literally starting uni kinda this week / next week and being an anxious wreck, having kayla tell me I got this was kinda needed

In all the dorms I stayed in, you could have small kitchen appliances (coffee makers, electric tea kettles, etc) so long as it was plugged into a surge protector and it had an auto shut-off function. The big no-no was extension cords, especially ones without a grounding wire (aka the two-pronged ones)

I just started college this year and my school is significantly more strict. We can’t have extension cords, tapestries, flags, anything on the walls within 6 inches of the ceiling, no lofting beds, no curtains, and you can’t bring your own desk chairs. The desk chairs are rocking chairs but they don’t rock all the way back. They suck. You’ll be sitting studying then suddenly u fall back and jolt forward again. There’s probably more that I’m forgetting.

i’m having the hardest time in my first year at college rn and the words of encouragement towards the end made me cry ;-; ty simsie :) also loved the flag 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Kayla is the only ally Sims youtuber I watch that just, adds pride flags to some of her builds that gives backstories to sims that aren't even made. Also, she does charity streams for St Jude, Able Gamers, and Transgender Law Center, not only having watchers donate but donating herself too. It makes me emotional how much she cares. She's such a sweetheart.

my boyfriend went to UAB in alabama they had four people in each room one common area (just kitchen) and each little room had two beds and it’s own bathroom. each person had their own closet. nicest dorm i have seen tbh

All of the dorms at my university did have communal kitchens in the basements ... They were also as strict as yours for hot plates and toasters, etc. but they never checked our dorms for them. We didn't have sinks in our rooms, but we had wall mounted mirrors with a light and all the walls in my dorms were white cinderblock. Freshmen were not forced to live on campus -- but we also didn't have enough dorms at the time, my first semester I was in overflow housing at a nearby hotel, which has since been demolished and is now a cancer center.

Loved being on my own, hated being away for school. Definitely a love hate relationship with my dorm room 🙃

i've said this once and i'll stay this again, we stan a trans ally. edit: y'all i can't-

I went to culinary school for college and our dorms were apartment buildings they bought and converted into dorms, so it was 2 bedroom (2 people per room) 2 bathroom full kitchen, living room and washer and dryer PER unit. It was fantastic, and we got to keep our cars for like a $20 fee.

I lived in an apartment style dorm room, so it wasn't the classic style (3 bedrooms, 2 people per room, each pair shared a bathroom, and all 6 shared kitchen/living). I had friends who lived in the more classic style and they had a bed, a desk, and then built-in storage for clothes and stuff. They had a microwave downstairs for everyone to use, and each floor had its own public bathroom stalls and showers. No candles, no microwaves (in normal dorms, apartment style had full kitchen), no kettles, nothing that could cause a fire lol mini fridges were ok tho! Lol there was a huge cafeteria for everyone to eat at and just about everyone had a meal plan, so everyone started heading to the cafe at 5 when it opened for dinner 🤣 they had breakfast lunch and dinner, and we were allowed cars. My university was in a middle of nowhere type place (i.e not in the middle of a city) so we had to have cars. Nope, they had floor bathrooms and they had to walk to the bathroom to brush their teeth. 😹 And each building was either male or female. No co-ed

my school doesn’t allow any of the things you mentioned in our dorms but they don’t check lol. however i go to a residential college (meaning you have to live on campus all 4 years), so it sucks not being able to have a microwave/hot plate/etc and having to eat ALL of your meals at a dining hall for 4 years

WAIT THE FLAGS BASE GAME? OH MY IM PUTTING TRANS FLAG IN EVERY BUILD!

as an ~RA~ at a SUNY school, things in the room that are ~prohibited~ items areee the lava lamp, microwave (it has to b connected to the mini fridge, we have microfridges which u buy through the school bc money. Idk if that's just a SUNY thing or what) tapestry, posters (?), the soccer lamp would b ok if the soccer part isnt made of plastic, fairy lights are allowed BUT the LED strip lights things that stick to the wall arent (bc it messes w the wall paint). Some I think are dumb and some I understand bc of safety stuff. Also we dont have sinks in our room/suites?? That would've been so nice first year.

My dorm in Canada was just a small shared apartment. I had a roommate but we each had our own bedroom and shared a bathroom and full kitchen space. It also wasn’t mandatory to live there, it was more for out of town students.

Was I the only one who always broke the no candle rule?? Always just stashed them away when I hear they were going to do room checks 🤭😂

I love how Kayla supports the LGBTQ+ community and sometimes puts pride flags in her builds. As a part of the community myself I greatly appreciate it.

My university is unique. The freshman dorms don’t have kitchens, but the upperclassmen live in apartment and have kitchens. It’s so nice. Although no one knows how to cook, so the fire alarm is constantly going off, lol.

When I got discover university I was SHOOK at the sharing rooms and no kitchen situation 😂😂 (I'm from UK) I had to change the bathroom middle section to a common room. Change all the bedrooms to single rooms (and make one of them a bathroom), then cheat to make a kitchen and cheat with a stove!

My trans heart when i see the transflag: **happy noises**

Wow I've never been this early

I'm American and my dorm has a kitchen. It's basically an apartment tbh, four single rooms, two bathrooms, and a main room with a full kitchen.

It's so weird hearing about so many restrictions and people coming to check your room... When I was at uni and rented a dorm room we only had a rule of not doing heavy stuff, like painting the walls and throwing away furniture provided. Tbh, there was a rule of "no pets" and "no moving furniture" but nobody really cared. I had a bigass tank with a hamster, several people had cats, some girl had a lizard. One dude had a pig for a year (that one did upset the chief lol). We could decorate however we want. For shared stuff, we had one kitchen for each floor (10 floors) and four washing machine rooms for whole building that we had to sign up for using in advance. Every four rooms (6 people) shared a bathroom. It was a really nice dorm and I'm so happy I got to live there :P 10/10 would rent again. Obviously every school had their own rules and layouts and those even varied between buildings. I was living in one on the edge of the city, people living right next to the uni had it nearer but the building was unpleasant.

I totally empathise with how you feel about finishing University. I’m in my ninth year of uni (I’m doing a doctorate) and I really don’t know what I’m going to do with myself when I finish. I wonder how many other people buy the University sims pack to fill the void 😂 I almost always put my sims through the stress of University, for some reason it makes me feel better.

University in the US sounds so weird, expensive and uneccesarily complicated °-° I'm starting my first semester on campus but being european I just have to take the subway to the inner city each day and not live with strangers

jealous about the sink in the dorm! Where I went to school we had a floor kitchen that was shared between 60 people and a girl and boy bathroom each shared between 30 people. Our dorms were SMALL! You could fit two beds on one wall and they had to be lofted or bunked or you would have no fridge and microwave. And then the other wall was our wardrobes and shared desk. But if you lived on campus you HAD to have some sort of meal plan :C

As someone who is apart of lgbtqia+, it makes me so happy that you put the flags in your builds and do it so casually!

I'm not going to lie, I saw the trans flag and LITERALLY jumped