Move In Day Advice

anon94785555
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:09:14 +0000

Rules- they don’t exist on move in/out days (except the no parking in a fire lane, perhaps…). Outside doors are propped open… Practicality. On future visits you will probably have to have your child escort you to their room… 2 hour parking voucher close to the dorm, longer far away.

We emptied the 3 or 4 laundry carts worth of stuff into son’s room. He decided room arrangement/lofting/shelf assembly/unpacking/ bedmaking/etc. after we left. There were student helpers available- much better than parents getting in the way if he chose to loft… Couldn’t make his bed until it was cleared of stuff…

I think it was nice for our son to do his own unpacking and therefore realize what he brought and where it was placed. When he moved out and had untouched supplies it was his fault, not ours for forgetting they existed… There’s something that made it HIS space when parents were not involved except as baggage haulers.