Lamp With a Clamp

Our freshman year dorm rooms had stone age-like lighting. It seemed that the overhead lighting provided by the institution included one, maybe two 60-watt light bulbs. Oh, who am I kidding? 😊 I doubt the lighting was more than two 40-watt light bulbs, or one 60-watt light bulb. The lighting just wasn't there. These were the days prior to LED lighting too.

There was to be no real [read: easy] way to bring in floor-to-ceiling lighting. After all, the freshman dorms were the ones where it was a basic requirement to have our beds bunked just to have enough space to move from the doorway to the room's window completely opposite the doorway. Floor space was of the essence & such lighting as this wouldn't be a practical solution.

Although I did use that study room desk often enough, I found myself sprawled out on my bed with book-in-hand quite frequently as well. I'd either have to team this up with daylight & make sure to read my textbooks before the sun moved away from its perch outside my dorm room window, or I'd have to adjust my positioning in so that I'd be able to catch enough of that little bit of provided-overhead-dorm-room-lighting in order to continue reading on.

Flashlight, you suggest? I don't remember having one with me at school. I'd have had to hold it & shine it as necessary while indulging in my texts if I'd had one, & this wouldn't have been favorable multi-tasking. 😂 And the genius that is the flashlight app on everyone's smartphone hadn't yet set foot, well, anywhere. Somehow I managed. I'm still not quite sure how I did. Though I know it wasn't until Valentine's Day, a month into my second semester, that a solution presented itself.

I don't remember if it came viable postal mail, or if it was something I unwrapped while stopping back at Mom & Dad's house (that mid-February point would have been near enough to the school's scheduled Spring Break - though that would've been at six weeks into the semester, not four weeks). What I do remember is that I had one of these now & it could clip onto the iron bedframe that was my lower bunk, I could angle its neck accordingly to my position, & I could lean on this, which I'd already been using for months & I could study & I could learn.

I suddenly found hope in the semester. 📚



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