Most Common College Dorm Posters: Pop Culture Cliches As Dorm Decor

College students aren't too bothered about originality when it comes to posters.

If you live in a dormitory, or have ever been near one, you are guaranteed to see the same posters again and again.

Below is a slideshow of the most common posters students can be on the look out for in residence halls and apartments. Are all college students just a series of cliches? You be the judge!

Which one is the most common in your opinion? Let us know in the comments section below!

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• Pulp Fiction

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• Keep Calm and Carry On

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• Beach Bums

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• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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• Marilyn Monroe

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• The Great Wave at Kanagawa

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• Bob Marley Mosaic

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• Van Gogh's Starry Night

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• Pink Floyd

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• Jack Daniel's Black Label

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• The Big Lebowski Quotes

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• New York

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• Salvador Dali Elephants

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• Scarface

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• Kissing on VJ Day

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• Beer Pong

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• Audrey Hepburn

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• Jim Morrison - The Doors

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• George Seinfeld - The Timeless Art of Seduction

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• Belushi's Classic 'College' Look - Animal House

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Comments

[MissMichelleP]

07:05 PM on 07/16/2012

I had #s 16 & 18 in my dorm room. Actually, I still have #18 in my bedroom. Audrey Hepburn is the best.

[BlueRoseofTexas]

12:47 PM on 07/16/2012

My son had the Belushi one, but also a Matisse and a retro "Visti Cuba" poster. So I guess he was kind of predictable but not altogether.

[Cherish Nia]

10:51 PM on 07/15/2012

You forgot Che Guevara. I am adamant about having no posthumous celebrities on my wall. It's so done and tired. I am so sick of the "Keep On..." shtick.

[JustinP213]

11:50 AM on 07/15/2012

the beer pong and scarface posters are my favorites on that slideshow.

[Andre Harry]

03:28 PM on 07/14/2012

Wow, I had #8 and a variation of #12.. 10 years ago when I was in school.

[MChile124]

10:48 AM on 07/14/2012

I'm embarrassed to have three of these in my dorm...not so hip as I may have thought. I'll have to scrounge for some weird unique posters or I'll look overly influenced by the Man, man.

[solar diablo]

10:03 AM on 07/14/2012

I had a huge poster of Paulina Porizkova on my dorm wall, and the flag of Robert the Bruce. Ah, memories...

[aliceandthecat]

03:44 AM on 07/14/2012

NNNOOOOOO!!!!! Not Morrison. Morrison was coooollll. Morrison was a GOD. And Dali!! Not Dali, never. At least there were no Escher or Geiger prints up there....

[chasesclouds1]

05:01 PM on 07/15/2012

I agree on all but have you seen some of Dali's work Genius, but CRAZY, No really CRAZY.HA HA

[ItsEmu]

09:21 PM on 07/13/2012

This stuff is old. The folks who put those in their dorms are probably 28+ right now.

These days, at least one of your posters has to be demotivational or Internet-related, one involves lesbians and one is so ridiculously childish and out of place, you will never understand unless you're a millennial.

Me personally, well I would put a a demotivational up, one really really clever graffiti/contemporary art fake drawing, and two with ridiculously cool animals (Pacman frog).

[Scott Kane]

08:25 PM on 07/13/2012

This U of O alumn is shocked that Che Guevara isn't on the list: perhaps the humble tee-shirt is the medium of choice? Either that or I've gotten old and he's no longer trendy.

[MChile124]

10:47 AM on 07/14/2012

Still trendy, but my hope is that people are beginning to reject commercially mass-produced Che Guevara posters, shirts, etc because of the obvious conflict of interest there.

[ooo a zebra111]

03:20 PM on 07/13/2012

Fight Club. Enough said!

[UnitedStatesOfTara]

03:14 PM on 07/13/2012

What? No Einstein sticking his tongue out? No M.C. Escher?

[Gabrielle Laforte]

03:12 PM on 07/13/2012

No "Johnny Cash Middle Finger" poster?

[BenC460]

02:58 PM on 07/13/2012

Can you guess which ones are hung in females' dorm rooms and which are hung in males' dorm rooms?

[theschneider92]

07:55 PM on 07/13/2012

I have actually seen all these posters in either genders dorm

[IslamicPacifist]

03:35 PM on 07/15/2012

both sexes use them all

[bluechao]

02:46 PM on 07/13/2012

No Gustav Klimt? No Georgia O'Keeffe or Claude Monet?

This was even a joke on Buffy the Vampire Slayer when she first starts college. There's a group of vampires who have been preying on the UC Sunnydale campus for decades. Whenever they kill a student, they break into his or her dorm room, steal all of their stuff and leave a note saying the kid couldn't take college life and went back home. They have an ongoing contest to see which posters are more represented among the students they kill: Monet or Klimt.

When I was in college, almost every girl seemed to have a Georgia O'Keeffe, usually some very vaginal flower. There was one girl, though, who brought her actual Georgia O'Keeffe original her freshman year. Her roommate was one of my best friends, actually. There were some very rich kids at that school, and in her bringing an original Georgia O'Keeffe seemed totally natural. After first semester she brought it back home. She had realized by then college dorm life was probably not good for original oil paintings by top painters.