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Kimberly Peter
Professor Alfaro
ENGL. 111X F08
Observation Essay
02/24/2017
My Dorm Room
I currently live in one of the many dorm halls on the University of Alaska Fairbanks
campus. This building is called Moore-Bartlett-Skarland complex which faces many hills and
beautiful mountains. Where the sun travels from the Skarland side to the Moore side of the
building. My dorm room is one of the many rooms where the sun partially shines through my
window. When the sunsets, I could see sunbeams but not for long. Each day the weather is
different. It could be snowing outside with huge snowflakes and the next day the sun is shining
with a blue sky. I look through my window from time to time, and gaze at the mountains afar.
My dorm room is a place where you could hear the air conditioning go on 24 hours a day
and 7 days a week, it never stops. At a certain hour, something makes a weird sound, I’m not
sure what it’s called. It is set like a timer, and when it goes off it sounds like a siren. As if it were
a sound where the whole building is being evacuated. It makes me think there is a fire drill going
on, but it only lasts a second. I look up towards the white wall and could see little bumps. Not
those bumps that look harsh, but smooth. The light is dim, and not so bright. Like the ones where
you sit on a chair in a dentist office. The ceiling has tiles of squares with black holes.
As of February 18, 2017, the time is 12:37 AM and Mercy by Shawn Mendes is
repeatedly playing on iTunes. The scent of my room comes from a trash bag box, which smells
like Hawaiian Aloha. I am sitting on a chair in front of a brown desk. On the corner of the left
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side of my dorm room, there is a closet with one door open. A beautiful parka that has a fabric of
pink and purple flowers is hanging on the other side of the door.
Next to the closet, there is a dresser with all sorts of food on top. Go Lean and Captain
Crunch cereal boxes are placed in the corner of the dresser. There is also a line of Tony
Chachere’s Original Creole spice, a bunch of coffee creamers, two dish soaps and a purple
sponge placed by the side of the closet. A 10.3 ounce can of Folgers coffee can with a bag of
coffee filters on top is next to the cereal boxes. A bag of Planters Tropical Fruit and Nut trail mix
is leaning on the side of the Captain crunch box. Behind a can of Original Pringles, there are two
boxes of sleepy tea. A sugar box is placed next to my small coffee maker.
My homework desk is next to the dresser, which makes enough room for me to work on
