The Dorm and I

It's true I have a somewhat relaxed approach when it comes to some daily routines compared to others and this might be connected with being more child-like.

To me the Dorm is central because for a good period of my schoolboy life that was my "Home base" where I did my homework and slept under the rules of the school and the house master enforcing them.

To a very large extent I learned to live by somebody else's rules, finding the spaces that gave me liberty between them.

Dorms were inspected, boys had to stand by beds and if you failed then you were spanked and made to put it right.
I learned early to be a good boy, do what I was told and confirm to the rules.

Given some of the stuff at home at that time I felt very secure and safe in what today some might see as a rather austere regimented system.