Between random roommate assignments and learning to cooperate in shared living spaces, residence hall life seems to have a universal culture among college students, whether you’re in Sama Tower or on the Square.

Two NYUNY students decided to capitalize on this residence hall culture and create a mockumentary web series depicting the struggles and awkward encounters that make up dorm life in their series called, “Dorm Therapy.”

On March 28, seniors Adam Carey and Jo-Dean Seymour debuted their first seven episodes of the first season at NYU’s Cantor Film Center. The first episode is available online and details move-in day for the residents of Psych Floor — a themed, co-ed residence hall floor that is dedicated to events and programs centered around the field and study of psychology. Each episode is about five to seven minutes long.

The series details the development of a community among the psych floor residents and the desperate attempts of their RA Alice to unite the floormates through programs and mentoring. The show shines a comical light on the role of the RA and the various behaviors of her residents.

As an RA herself, Seymour drew upon her own experience for material for the show.

When hurricane Sandy stripped the streets of Manhattan with its powerful winds last October, Seymour spent hours confined inside awaiting the end of the storm with two of her residents, Brigette and Jess. At the time, Seymour was in pursuit of a concept for a web series. Her two residents proposed she write a script based on them — two roommates living, dorming and attending college in the city.

Seymour called it “Modern Roommates,” a take on the popular American sitcom “Modern Family.” Her friend and writing partner Carey, however, was not a fan of the satirical name. Eventually the two decided on calling the web series “Dorm Therapy,” a show about living with strangers as college students.

With the exception of their music composer, responsible for writing the music for their theme song, the production team is made up of NYUNY students and alumni. The actual filming, however, took place at Queens College, a different New York campus.

When asked about the process of arranging such a film production, Seymour chuckled and responded, “We contacted every school in Manhattan.” In a coordinated manner, the two listed the different regions of New York they had targeted.

“Almost all of them said no,” Seymour explained. “You’re not allowed to film in residence halls. NYU said no. [NYU] Poly said no. Mostly no one allows you to film in residence halls.”

Carey continued, “We had one college say yes. And when we asked them how much, they said it would be upwards of 18,000 dollars.”

Eventually, they arranged a production with Queens College. With some fundraising initiatives and promotional videos, they were able to raise enough funds to cover the costs, namely the location costs involved with filming in a residence hall.

The first seven episodes that were screened at Cantor were filmed in a matter of six 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. production days during the winter break. Queens College is an hour-and-a-half commute via public transport from Manhattan. While they could not afford to pay their actors, Seymour and Carey compensated their team with metro cards to cover transportation costs.

With little funding available, Carey and Seymour take on most of the roles involved in the production of their web series in a job they have titled as show-runners. From the writing process to social media marketing to film editing and producing, they are responsible for making their vision of the series into a reality. Yet, after producing seven episodes on their own, they are hoping to be picked up by a network.

“We love to write, and I think we want to be a writing partnership as staff writers when we graduate,” Seymour explained. “But, I don’t know if I want to be a fundraiser for the rest of my life.”

Carey further explained the problems with taking on so many roles as a two-person team.

“Producing is built for some people and we are not necessarily those people,” Carey said. “But, we will do whatever it takes for ‘Dorm Therapy.’”

In addition to sacrificing their winter break to film the first seven episodes, Carey and Seymour have chosen their classes based on how they anticipate spending their production time.

“We are putting in so much work that we are hoping the result is that it will be like, ‘Oh we will do whatever it takes for you to produce more [episodes],’” Seymour explained. The duo is currently eyeing Hulu, the online show hub, in particular.

“In our wildest dreams, ‘Dorm Therapy’ would continue on for four seasons,” Carey said. “Definitely past our graduations, and we would be so happy if it became our careers.”

While they look ahead at future plans for “Dorm Therapy,” Seymour emphasized the need to look at the production of the web series realistically. With such limited resources, the two cannot continue to produce such a series.

“We have done so much in such a short amount of time,almost all by ourselves.” Seymour explained. “And we had a lot of support from our friends.”

Despite all the work and commitment to film their mockumentary about dorm life, the pair are not sick of living in residence halls yet. When asked about their current living arrangements, both stated that they live in NYU housing and jokingly added their expressed interest in signing up for housing post-graduation.

“Alumni Hall,” Carey remarked ironically in reference to an NYUNY upperclassmen dorm that has housed many NYUAD students studying abroad, “that’s for people who graduated right?”

The team burst out in laughter. Despite the random and awkward nature of dorm life depicted in their show, it seems that the two do not want to give up the residence hall community yet.