EditorialA family photo of Jack Reid, who took his own life a year ago inside his dorm room at one of the nation’s elite boarding schools, at his parents’ home in the Manhattan borough of New York, April 29, 2023. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialA makeshift memorial, in tribute to three University of Virginia students who were killed the day prior, in Charlottesville, Va. on Nov. 15, 2022. (Eze Amos/The New York Times)
EditorialKazuma Mitchell, left, Hayoung Moon, center, and Millán González-Bueno in an Adams House - Russell Hall dorm room at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 2022. (Dumebi Malaika Menakaya/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, the Ukrainian dancers Marta Zabirynnyk, Anastasia Belechinska and Vladyslava Ihnatenko share a dorm room at a former conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, in August 2022. (Melissa Schriek/The New York Times)
EditorialKristen Bell brand ambassador to same day delivery company Shipt presents the Ultimate School Shopping Guide to help parents, teachers and college students navigate what to buy ahead of the return to schoo
Editorial“Dorm Room,” 2019, includes a pile of Ikea collaborations, seemingly assembled via tornado, in the Virgil Abloh exhibition, "Figures of Speech," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Aug. 12, 2019. (Whitten Sabbatini/The New York Times)
EditorialWilliam O’Brien, a freshman at the University of Michigan, packs up his dorm room before the Thanksgiving break, in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Nov. 16, 2020. (Erin Kirkland/The New York Times)
EditorialKaren O’Brien and her freshman son William, 19, pack belongings from his dorm room at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 16, 2020, for the trip home to Cleveland. (Erin Kirkland for The New York Times)
EditorialStudents gather in a dorm room in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Oct. 17, 2020, after bars and restaurants were ordered to close because of rising coronavirus infections. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)
EditorialSpencer Mowdy Hill, a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, is a moderator of the “Overheard at UC Berkeley” Facebook page. (Wesaam Al-Badry/The New York Times)