TikTok is baffled by sorority cold rooms-dark, freezing bunk-filled spaces where students sleep. Here's the surprising reason this tradition still exists. Read all about sorority cold rooms and the history of the chilly tradition.
Sorority members have discussed their experiences on TikTok. The sorority sisters have private "day rooms" for all of their clothes, studying, and sleeping in the cold room. @lovealwaysannika/TikTok.
As sorority cold rooms and sleeping porches at universities go viral on social media, students and others are sharing their takes and personal experiences with communal dormitory spaces. Cold rooms - also called cold dorms or sleeping porches - are rooms in frats or sorority houses that are filled with lots of bunk beds, similar to military barracks. Students who have recently been accepted into Greek Life are now sharing their lives inside sorority houses, including the communal sleeping areas, referred to as 'cold rooms.'.
Julie Rogers, a senior at St. Lawrence College in Upstate New York, found that her cold dorm (located in the sorority house's back porch) calmed her occasional sleep disorders. An explanation of the barrack-like bedrooms in midwestern sorority houses, commonly known as sleeping porches, cold air dorms, and cold rooms.
The trend began when a student posted a video that displayed her sorority's dorm room temperature reading an astonishing -47°F (-43°C). This shocking revelation prompted many other students to share their own stories of battling extreme cold in their sorority houses. Cold rooms are dark, chilly rooms in sorority and fraternity houses, furnished with multiple bunk beds to accommodate members for sleeping.
