For a dorm room, you may want to consider cases of bottled water. The ones I keep on hand are 3 gallons of water for the whole case. Two cases per person would cover you for six days. And the cases are easier to spread out around a space so you don't have almost 500 lbs in one spot. Plus bottled water (abeit a large amount for one room) will draw less comment from visitors as opposed to a 55 gallon food grade barrel in the middle of your room! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Unless college food has changed a lot since I was there, I'd make sure to store some eats for the duration too <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />