My roomates bed was messy and she had her dirty laundry out and one of her bras on the floor and I had crap all over my desk. We invited a couple guys and girls over and then I realized that it was probably too messy. Do other freshman in college care?
I would care.
I would probably start cleaning the friend’s room hahaha, I’m obsessive about neatness. 
Keep dirty underwear in your laundry basket and sex related things in the drawer, you should be gucci.
I care to some extent. I certainly judge the person a bit, some consciously some unconsciously. Not always badly, but a person’s living style and space does reflect on their habits and personality a bit IMO, and you can get some info from that.
What you’re describing doesn’t sound terrible. I’ve certainly hung out in messier and it didn’t make me leave or anything, but I would probably clean up a bit. Doesn’t need to be spotless or anything by any means.
There’s messy, and then there’s hygiene-challenged.
Dirty laundry, snack food debris, biological waste residue (i.e., anything that smells, harbors bacteria or attracts bugs) scattered everywhere is hygiene-challenged.
I agree with post #5; there’s a difference between messy and dirty. If somebody has papers and pencils scattered across their desk, I don’t really care. I certainly have never been able to keep my desk organized. But if somebody had food scraps and really dirty clothes lying around, I would probably hesitate to come back.
I think i would stuff the laundry in her hamper…but nobody cares about junk on your desk.
Keep it clean, if cluttered…no food debris, no dust bunnies.
As long as it’s not stuff that causes a smell that’s littered around the room, I don’t really care. In fact, I tend to be surprised by a really neat room.
There’s a difference between messy and dirty. I personally keep my living space neat, but I don’t care if someone else’s room is messy. (I do care if it’s dirty.)
They might not care, but they might mentally make a note of it. Personally I’d always clean up before inviting anyone over, but that’s just me. I’d say the dirty clothes lying around are more of an issue than the desk
I feel that this is a similar situation I have experienced. I’ve considered paying a cleaner to come before we have guest or twice a month, but they are all out of my price range. Any thoughts?
Why don’t you just clean your own room?
It’s always on my to do list, but I always run out of time. How do you manage?
You just make time. It’s like making time for anything else. If you want to hang out with friends or go to the gym or eat dinner or study for class–you just have to make time in your schedule for it. If it’s important to you, then you will find the time. If it’s not, then it tends to be put at the bottom of the list. It’s all about finding time for priorities. If you can’t find time in your schedule for thirty minutes or an hour once a week to clean the kitchen or the bathroom or vacuum the floors or whatever it is you want to do, then you need to either re-evaluate your schedule/priorities or accept that your apartment/dorm room/house will be messier than you’d like. If you’re a typical college student, then I’d be highly surprised if you didn’t have ANY time in your schedule to clean. If you have lots of other priorities like multiple jobs or you have children or other dependents or you have a medical condition that severely limits your activity or something like that, then it can be difficult to find time to clean, but there’s probably some way to make time, even if it means you just clean less often. If you have a roommate, it’s even less time because you can split cleaning duties with them (perhaps, alternating weeks). The more you make it part of your normal routine, the less laborious it becomes.