A common room is a nice place to hang out. When dorms get renovated, they tend to get more common rooms, and nicer common rooms. [[Morgan]] and [[Mission Park|Mission]] are good examples of this phenomenon.
="Common room" can also refer to certain public spaces not in dorms, such as the "[[Physics]] Common Room," which is the room immediately to the right as you enter the [[Thompson Physics Lab|Thompson Physics Laboratory]]. This and other such "common rooms" not in dorms gain the name by being generally open to students, comfortable, and typically not reserved for special functions that preclude casual use. ==Things to do in common rooms===* Many common rooms have [[Quote board|quote boards]], especially in [[first-year ]] dorms with [[Junior Advisor|JAs]].
* Some people play [[Cribbage|cribbage]] in common rooms.
* A common room is a good place to [[Procrastinating|procrastinate]].