[crypt1d]

Ahh, dorms are often the first place people start experimenting with this kind of stuff :) I remember doing something similar at a friends dorm. They had a filter to only allow HTTP/HTTPS traffic via their proxy, so I used some HTTP tunnel tool to push a VPN connection through it. It was pretty weak but it worked for basic usage. I remember having a real hard time figuring out what was causing VPN connections to drop intermittently. That's how I learned about HTTP keep-alives.