Getting a good night’s sleep

It can be difficult to create a place to call your own in college, but these affordable accessories and spunky décor ideas will help students find their center in the outrageous balancing act that is the undergraduate experience. One thing remains true: Standard-issue dorm room beds are twin extra-long. Pottery Barn Teen has cornered the market on fun organic cotton sheets in the right size with floral organic fitted sheets. Mix and match with solid-colored, soft-as-a-baby's-blanket organic cotton jersey sheets for an unpretentiously sophisticated look. College students work their brains hard (or so you hope, for the $40,000 a year you may be paying), so a nice place to rest a weary head is important. Consider an organic buckwheat pillow with a dreamy organic cotton pillow case from either The Company Store (in ombre blue; top bunk) or Walmart (in forest-faerie green; bottom bunk). In the early months of school, dorms rooms may still be hot, so an organic light waffle-knit blanket is the perfect weight; you can always go switch to an organic cotton down comforter as the year progresses.