When decorating your college dorm room, there are bedding basics that every student needs from sheets, comforters, pillows, mattress pads, to blankets that will transform a lumpy dorm bed into a sleeping oasis. If you are heading off to college for the first time, here’s a dorm tip – most dorm room beds are sized twin extra long – so shop for twin XL (or TXL) bedding. Your bedding preferences will get you started in decorating your dorm space just the way you want it.