Dorm Room Diaries

Lily Pampolina, Leila Siskind
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Meet Lily and Leila, two first-year college students navigating life and academics. Tune in on Fridays for new episodes where they talk about their highs and lows of college and share some of their funniest life stories!

  1. 04/25/2025

    Ep 12 - Season Finale: Favorite Moments from Dorm Room Diaries & Current Campus Faves 🩷

    Happy Season 4 FINALE of Dorm Room Diaries! We are so grateful to have you along for the ride! In today's episode, Lily and Leila dive into their favorite moments across four seasons of the podcast! They also discuss some of their campus favorites: coffee shops, snacks, study spots! An episode not to be missed! Enjoy the summer and see you again soon! 🩷

    28 min

  2. 04/18/2025

    Ep 11 - Dorm Room Draft

    This year seems to have flown by and suddenly Lily and Leila will be moving out in a month's time. In honor of it being that time of year when incoming college freshman choose their schools, Lily and Leila bring back their beloved episode about dorm room essentials from last year but with a fun twist! Tune in to hear them build their dream dorm room, drafting dorm essentials!

    31 min

  3. 04/11/2025

    Ep 10 - Recent Updates & Self Improvement Culture

    Things have been pretty busy recently for Lily and Leila! In today's episode, they sit down to catch you (and each other) up on what's been going on! Tune in to hear about exciting major declaration updates, and more on college life. Plus a surprise fire inspection after setting the alarm off at 1:30am!

    29 min

  4. 04/04/2025

    Ep 9 - April Fools!

    Happy April Fools Week!! In honor of Tuesday's pranks, we decided to celebrate with some April Fools of our own, a day late (we love an element of surprise)! Today Lily and Leila share their favorite moments from April Fools this year (and a few honorable mentions from before). Tune into hear about hot sauce flavored milk, soda skincare and more. Plus, a few prank calls!

    28 min

  5. 03/28/2025

    Ep 8 - Connections & Categories!

    Anyone familiar with the New York Times's connections puzzle will know exactly what today's episode is about! Lily and Leila play a fun game guessing categories based on rankings of items within those categories! Play along with them as they guess each other's categories! Plus, tune in to listen to ice rankings, juices and a strange coincidence on great coffee shops in Chicago!

    28 min

  6. 03/21/2025

    Ep 7 - What It's Like Reporting on Sports 🏈

    As many of you know, Lily has worked for the sports section of our school newspaper for over a year now, becoming an editor earlier this year! In this role, she has written over 50 articles covering games ranging from lacrosse, basketball, soccer and football to name a few. In today's Q&A style episode Leila asks Lily all about her sport's journalism journey so far. Tune in to learn about the process of writing a sports piece, from the game to its publishing and Lily's favorite sports to write on. Plus, sports she wants to report on and future career plans?!

    26 min

  7. 03/07/2025

    Ep 6 - This or That

    We are back with another split episode (much to Lily and Leila's avail) as we navigate the madness of midterms week. In today's episode, Lily and Leila share some hot takes in a game of This or That! Tune in to hear their views on pets, food, tv and more. Plus, a guest appearance (you'll never guess who 👀) and the tea on Martha Stewart?!

    31 min

  8. 02/28/2025

    Ep 5 - Advice we Would Give to our College Freshmen Selves

    It's been a year and a half since Lily and Leila met during orientation they freshman year of college! In that time they have learned so much about navigating life at college. In today's episode, they share advice they would have wanted their freshmen selves to know! Tune in to hear Lily talk scheduling, Leila's advice on navigating living far from home (she's British in case you weren't already aware) and much more. Plus, the most unexpected things about their sophomore year so far!

    28 min
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Meet Lily and Leila, two first-year college students navigating life and academics. Tune in on Fridays for new episodes where they talk about their highs and lows of college and share some of their funniest life stories!

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  • Creator
    Lily Pampolina, Leila Siskind
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Lily Pampolina, Leila Siskind
  • Show Website
    Dorm Room Diaries