What This Cool University Senior Did In His Room With 13,000 Balls

In light of today's #RandomWednesday, we are sorry to inform you that the title of coolest uni student in the world has been taken.

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Rice University senior David Nichol must really hate the fact that he is growing up. He dreads it so much that he brought his childhood all the way to uni with him.

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He literally, LITERALLY, turned his dorm room into a ball pit! The type that we used to drown in when we were kids at McD's!

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His room, the one where he sleeps, is filled with 13,000 plastic balls in five colours. There are so many balls he can't even open the door wide.

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The door is in the top right corner!

This is how he gets out of bed in the morning. It's a glorious way to wake up.

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This is what's left of his wardrobe

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He doesn't clean his balls, but it's okay, because 'Da Rulz says no peeing and no making out

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How did he come up with the genius idea? "I read a comic one time and I thought that's a good idea. You can totally do things that are in comic books."

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It wasn't easy for Nichol to get his balls to his dorm room. U.S. customs thought it was suspicious for a grown man to be receiving 36 boxes of toy balls from China.

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The best thing is that his university approves! Why else would they make him our hero with this video?

Where can we find a cool university like this in Malaysia?

"Even if you're a grownup, I feel like you should be able to acknowledge that fun things are still fun. Just because you're not seven doesn't mean you can't indulge in seven-year-old fun things," said Nichol

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Yep, Nichol, we totally know what you mean…

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Nichol reminds us of the Russian boys who turned their house into a swimming pool because it was too hot

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