Fascinating series of photos show how dorm life has changed over the last 100 years (and students' poor taste has ALWAYS remained)

Now, where to put this tea set: Finding a place to put your bone china was the late 19th century's equivalent of today's dilemma of where to find sheets that fit a needlessly long twin bed. A young woman is seen demonstrating in the University of Wisconsin's old Chadbourne Hall in 1898

They only had one bed: These young men in a UW boarding house demonstrate the 1909 version of an embarrassing college-era Facebook photo, complete with beer steins, a friend on the verge of losing consciousness and another friend who's already witnessed far too much

When men were men: Here, a resident of a UW Men's Boarding House or Fraternity House Room takes a moment out of his daily correspondence hour to smolder for the camera, circa 1912 or 1913. Wisconsin pennants that would not look out of place behind one of today's letter-writing desks are hung proudly in the background

'Masculine style': Pictured in 1927 at the University of Wisconsin is 'A homelike student room furnished in comfortable, masculine style'. Just out of frame at right, the room's occupant slowly rocks himself back and forth while counting the frayed threads of the rug

Spring Break, 1930: While this room's occupant left his pride behind in Acapulco, he found comfort for years knowing he still had his sea turtle and sombrero

Homey: A 'Sample room for men at Memorial Union' circa 1930s demonstrates the masculine homeliness of overhead lighting, the smell of bleach and deafening silence

So mature: A stonily silent couple academes demonstrates the perks of marrying young at the Truax Field housing for married students in 1946

Cozy: With World War II finally over, these two men at the university's Truax Field housing unit were free to continue to live out their glory days in the barracks, in the comfort of Wisconsin (pictured between 1945 and 1954)

No smoking: Sick of playing by the rules: With rent at a staggering $13/month, these dorm residents were going to smoke, rules or no rules

Thought there'd be boys: A record party with her fellow Elizabeth Waters Hall residents was the final straw for Pauline, who vowed to never again accept an invitation to the Svenson triplets' room

'No, Mom, she can still hear me':  Doreen did the best she could to keep smiling as her roommate inched closer (Holt Dormitory, circa 1950s)

Chip off the Eastern Bloc: Three UW men sing along beside a Christmas tree in front of pictures of Russian buildings on a window and Russian text reading 'Merry Christmas'

You thinking what I'm thinking? A Mr. and Mrs. Eastland sit reading and staring knowingly at each other in the early 1960s

Chic: A student dorm of the 1960s shows the exact moment clinical chic became the dominant trend in student housing

Burnt sienna: An explosion of various hues shades of brown was the hallmark of this 1970s dorm room

'Put a carnivore on it': A double room in the University of Wisconsin's Chadbourne hall demonstrates the 1970s version of today's 'put a bird on it' school of home decor

Yarn: A student of the 1970s hangs below his bed as a photo of himself in his wilder days watches over him

Ewbank House Den at UW's Sellery Hall demonstrates the importance of subtly in advertising to the all important 18-34 demo

Ride Sally Ride: These women of 1980s UW discuss the perks, and drawbacks, of the Sally Ride look

Punky Brewster goes to college: Denim jacket, Pound Puppy, early Apple computer, Jan Michael Vincent poster, foreboding sense that childhood may soon be over, check, check, check

A group of women at the Bradley Learning Community in 1996 laugh at the notion of 'an internet'

No clue: A group of students plays Cranium in 2005 while taking a break from not knowing how terrible the job market would be upon their graduation

Hope: University of Wisconsin students chat about hope and change in front of an Obama poster in 2008