Living in a dorm room can start to feel like a game of Tetris as the school year drags on.
Beds get stacked. Organizers get stacked. Anything that can stack eventually will be stacked to maximize space.
The impossibly cramped living quarters in college can propose a lot of challenges. One of the biggest: preparing food that you wouldn't be embarrassed to show your parents, without the luxury of having a full kitchen.
Luckily, there is hope for residence hall dwellers with nothing but a microwave, fridge, coffee mug, and the simple dream of a more perfect union meal.
We've compiled a list of incredibly easy and surprisingly gourmet ways to take the bare dorm essentials to a whole new level. You now have officially zero excuses for eating that plain package of top ramen for every meal of the day.
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