What if, instead of spending your freshman year in a cramped, 12-by-19-foot dorm room, you spent it sprawled out in a sunny bedroom full of salvaged furniture? That's exactly what the 200 study abroad students who attend the recently opened CIEE Global Institute in Berlin have to look forward to. The school's swank student residence complex was converted from an old factory for car radio buttons in the city's trendy Kreuzberg district.