Dorm=Paradise?

Today in Fiction Workshop we were critiquing a story a girl wrote about someone who was stranded on an island.  The island was described as very calming and a sort of paradise.  However, the teacher felt like the story was more about the girl’s relationship with her mother (and I agreed).  He then suggested that the story could have taken place elsewhere, such as a college dorm.  The teacher then goes on to say that a dorm could be considered a calming sort of paradise for the student who lived there.  We were all giving him strange looks and then one girl goes, while giving him an incredulous look, “Have you ever lived in a dorm?” He said yes and the whole class burst out laughing.  Dorm a paradise?  Not so much.