<p>Anyone have info on the rooms in Wicomico? I understand that they are even smaller than Denton & Easton. We are shipping boxes today and I don’t want to overpack (I have a dtr 
so that should explain my question!)</p>
<p>Cue the banjo music, the Jed Clampett truck is being loaded up for my drive up from NC on Wednesday. So far, no rocking chair tied up on top, but I’ve got a feeling that even the passenger seat will be packed. Both Terp D’s are heading up to College Park Tuesday a.m. D2 is upstairs, STILL packing!!! 
Looking forward to anyone’s exciting move-in stories.</p>
<p>DS leaves tomorrow, luckily resnet is letting him move in early (ROTC for him, 1 of his 6 roomies also moves in to help out with scholars moving in on Thurs). Thank G*d because his move in time was Friday at 4 was his move in time. Bullet goes up tomorrow night to bring his car back. I go up on Thursday with the Yukon to unload the rest of the stuff!. YIppee I get my dining room back on Friday, since it is the collection point for all of his crap. Can’t wait until next yr, because I guess I will lose my Dining Room and my sunroom for a month 
— then again he will probably go into an apt, so maybe I won’t !</p>
<p>LOL, Astro @ your Jed Clampett truck reference! I’m getting ready for loading up the van Thursday night and heading up on Friday, complete with my mantra (thanks to Pima) …just walk away…just walk away…just walk away. :D</p>
<p>You forgot, don’t look back…think of Dora the fish from finding Nemo just keep walking, walking, walking. :D</p>
<p>It was funny DS left this morning and I thought it would be easy this yr since we already did it once before and I was going up tomorrow, IT WASN"T. I didn’t cry, but I felt my eyes well up especially since his dog (who is really his dog) wouldn’t come to him when he called her. She finally did sheepishly like she thought she had done something wrong. 
Our poor dog she doesn’t understand and now she is sleeping on his bed curled up in his blanket.</p>
<p>Okay…just walk away, don’t look back, don’t cry!!! Well at least I have my DH to keep me cheered up…he didn’t let me get mopey on a 14 hour drive home from DD’s college last year.</p>
<p>Just got back from doing our final drop off. The campus is probably 50% in now. Thank G*d he was allowed to move in yesterday, because it is suppose to rain tomorrow and I have already checked that box last yr.</p>
<p>Pima,</p>
<p>DS is also SO GLAD to have moved in yesterday! He said it is a zoo there! He ran 4 miles this morning and said he actually had difficulty navigating through the families and cars to get to his dorm…</p>
<p>Oh yeah, they start showing up around 7:30 to be there for doors opening at 8. It wasn’t a zoo where DS is at because it is dorms for mainly upperclassman who will return tomorrow. DS has 6 roommates, 1 went in with him yesterday, another comes in tonight and the rest come tomorrow. When I went today (around 11), main campus was hopping, but it was silent in Leonardtown. The funny thing is our DD would have gone bonkers if she saw DS’s dorm. Him and his other roommate have yet to unpack the bags of food that they arrived with yesterday (dry goods). There must be 50 bags sitting on the floor in the dining area. He didn’t even open up the trash bags I sent with him or the paper towels…of course I did, because it was driving me insane!</p>
<p>I hope Astro came up 81 and 66, because 95 north in VA was bumper to bumper for 25 miles when I was coming back south.</p>
<p>An AWESOME move-in for BOTH astrokids! Of course, I did not participate at all with D1 (the OCD one who became the creature from the Exorcist for the previous two years, so I bowed out of this year’s fun…it was much more pleasant for both of us.) Both D’s drove up on Tuesday night, and D2 (in Centreville) picked up her key on Wednesday, NO PROBLEM. As soon as I got to College Park, both D’s, and one of D1’s strong male friends met me, and it couldn’t have been better. We could use several of those carts (no one else was moving in), and take the elevator (I’d expected carrying everything up, since she’s on a low floor). Well, having A/C WOULD have been a heck of a lot better!!</p>
<p>We stayed and got everything all organized…it was great, because no one besides the RA was on the floor (so I didn’t feel too out of place being here…and THIS D appreciates her mom’s help on these things!!!) Um, we left for the air conditioned hotel room at 3:30 a.m!!!. 
Came back today, had lunch with other D (in training classes today), got to see her awesome apartment at the Language House (she’s got a single bedroom this year, and they did a great job putting it together, and D1 has almost EVERYTHING organized, even posters up on the wall!</p>
<p>The carpet 7 1/2 x 9 worked out wonderfully for D2. She and sis moved the furniture around about 8 times before I got up here, before they found the layout she liked best (she went for somebodynew’s previous suggestion of having the beds up against the walls in an “L”, with all the other furniture around the walls. Having the empty space in the middle makes it seem so much more spacious. She’s had several people stop by, parents and kids and say…this room seems so much BIGGER!!).</p>
<p>She put the bed risers under her bedposts…there is 21" of clearance under the bed, so she’s keeping all the plastic bins that she packed her stuff in. Her winter stuff is there (since we’re so far away), extra case of soda…it’s amazing. She brought about 33% more stuff than her sister did freshman year, and she’s got empty shelves and space in her closet.</p>
<p>Haha, H is flying up tonight. He got several “Can you bring xxxxxx” in your luggage calls last night!!!</p>
<p>I’ll be leaving the little Terplets to themselves, as H and I are going to spend a couple of days in Baltimore (27th anniversary!!!). We’ll come back to College Park on Sunday and say our fond farewells (and probably feed them) before we head back home.</p>
<p>I couldn’t have remotely imagined that it would have gone this well…I prepared myself for MUCH worse!!!</p>
<p>This might be helpful for the new Spring 2010, Fall 2010 class…
I am currently a freshman living in Easton.
Ask me any questions.</p>
<p>Question! Is Easton as crazy and nasty as everyone says?</p>
<p>Do you get your roommate assignment with your housing assignment?</p>
<p>Yes, you do…but unless things have changed drastically since previous years, you will probably not know your dorm or roommate assignment until August! If you are Gemstone, Honors, or Scholars, you will know where you are going to live, but not with whom (unless you and another person have requested each other as roommates). If you are going by the luck of the draw, you will not find out until just a couple of weeks before schools starts. It’s frustrating, but in the end, it really doesn’t matter that much. It’s more on who’s bringing the TV, and if one or the other already has a larger refrigerator. You are best to assume that you not have a/c, and that you will most likely be in one of the freshman high rise dorms.</p>
<p>@misterpop92: Easton is pretty crazy but not that nasty. I will define crazy. People coming in drunk at 12-3am causing a ruckus, you hear of people from Easton going to the hospital because of alcohol poisoning, people get written up, but how could this be any different from any other dorm? For the nasty part, they have cleaning ladies so it’s not that nasty…
@Krams: Yes.</p>
<p>Hope this is helpful to the incoming class!</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about Harford hall? Moving there in a week as a spring semester freshman.</p>
<p>I know Harford is by the Commons Apartments. (You can use this cool interactive campus map to see it, though I’m sure you already know where it is: [TerpNav</a> Pedestrian Mapping System](<a href=“http://map.umd.edu/map/]TerpNav”>TerpNav Pedestrian Map System)). Past that, I don’t know anyone who lives/lived there, so I can’t tell you anything more than its location…</p>
<p>My DD will be coming back to California for the summer and I want to book her flights asap but I am not sure about move-out dates and storage of all her belongings. We’ve checked resLife and all it says it move out is the last day of finals and she has a final on the last day. </p>
<p>Does anyone know of on-campus or close-by storage for mostly boxes during the summer? At parent weekend someone mentioned a company that will deliver the boxes and pick them up to store them. Any info is appreciated! Thanks.</p>
<p>You might check these out. My son stored his things at his girlfriend’s house, in her basement. Might your daughter have a friend who wouldn’t mind storing a few boxes in the garage or basement?
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