Okay, not my line but from the New York Times over the weekend (a piece on dorm buying…see https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/education/edlife/college-shopping-student-back-to-school.html?_r=0) but I"m writing to tell you all of a great xLong mattress pad that I ordered! It took me 2 kids and 4 years but I believe I have found the perfect one…so perfect that my rising junior daughter just ordered her own. It’s plush, it’s light, it’s affordable, it covers all plastic cushions. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002DELZ7I
Yea, this was my experience with DD14 and I’m sure it will be with the same with DS17. Dad=Pack Mule
Andy why, why is the dorm room always on the 3rd or 4th floor? What’s wrong with the ground floor (near the dumpster!)?
Love the article. So true that guys could care less about their towels, sheets and ironing. My favorite line was “they are not going to immediately start vacuuming and looking for their winter coat as soon as you leave” or something like that
No, but they will text you at 2 am in late November looking for the cough syrup, Advil, and gloves. Best to know where they are 
Note the XL pad says “will ship in 2-5 months.” Hope the OP scored one!
In tears. This is exactly how I feel - the nesting is therapeutic, masking the fact that it’s the end of an era. :((
My husband must be the out-lier because he was a freaking basket case last year at move-in. 
That being said, I did carefully make the bed. :">
PS: Love this article - really sweet and captures it perfectly.
I still remember my H and son giving me a hard time because I took Clorox wipes to my son’s dorm. You know “nobody else worries about this stuff…” But as we were leaving, another mom had her gloves on, mattress off the bed, and was scrubbing away. We all got a good laugh (and then I think kid didn’t change his sheets for another mo th or longer).
@1214mom , at my son’s drop-off, it was his roommate’s dad Clorox-wiping the heck out of everything! I was so relieved. I whipped out my tub and started in on the other half of the room.
Ok, you’ve got me tearing up now. I made the bed to bring DS home from the hospital and I will make the bed to drop him off at his new home. I need a picture of him on it as a going away present to me, so I can remind myself that he is fine.
Lol – I’m waiting at my D2’s apartment for mattress delivery right now while she is off on campus registering for her PhD classes. I came with her to settle in because I’m giving her my old car, and she was nervous about driving it cross country by herself. I have every intention of making the bed after the mattress gets here!
My son is just starting junior year, so I’ve got two years and now I’m tearing up already. I made his bed for each overnight camp experience and I’m sure I’ll do so when we take him to college. Some of those camps were on college campuses, so he lived in the dorms. Yes to wipes. Some of those places really needed wiping down.
And I’m putting the mattress topper in my Amazon Save for Later list.
I am the mother who made the beds with intensity, too. I asked them if I could do that for them, I needed too. They let me!! But you could tell when they were ready for us to leave. It’s just a hard day.
Understand that when you make the dorm room all perfect on move-in day, it will likely never look that good again. And if that will bother you, do not go up to the room again. Meet your kid in the lobby when you come to see him/her.
I explained to DS this weekend that all the fuss was a desired to get him well launched.
DS is going far out of state and we may not get to visit. (With two younger DD following close behind.) We will probably focus on bringing him home for trips and all going up for graduation in four years. He will need to buy the majority of his winter gear, move himself out for summer, and back for yr2, etc.
If he were in town or even in state, I think it would be different. I’d still make the bed, though.
Funny, I’m not sure who made the bed for S’s or D’s rooms when they moved into their Us. I could have been me, but no memory one way or another.