The first 25 days are done! I’m already thinking about how much I’m going to miss everyone when the semester ends. We have all bonded so much in the hall. When one of us is sick we all know and we’re all trying to help her. When one of the girls broke her foot we all were yelling at her to keep her boot on when she kept trying to take it off. If one of us is missing classes we all try to figure out why and make sure she’s ok. We’re like this little family. It’s really, really nice.
I never really thought about the all-girls aspect significantly affecting the dorms, but it does. When I go to Bryant to visit my boyfriend, I see girls parading around attempting to impress the boys. Here, we walk around knowing we look like we just woke up or just came back from the gym and we don’t care. At night when I’m at Bryant you hear boys partying, knocking on doors at 3AM, and absolutely, positively DESTROYING the bathrooms. They’re blasting music unnecessarily loud, leaving the seat up in the bathrooms, leaving nasty presents on each others door knobs and at others doors. Here, quiet hours means quiet hours. It does not mean we’re all just studying after 11PM or we don’t have fun after 11PM or we’re boring. It just means that we are respectful of each other. We clean up our hallways, keep our bathroom clean and smelling fresh. We leave notes for each other on our whiteboards about how much we <3 each other and when we want to go out the next day with each other. Our dorms are relaxing, an oasis, and homes. We come back to our dorms, our homes, our families. There’s always a “male visitor” in a hall. I will not deny that. Because he doesn’t live here though, he doesn’t trash our home.
The dorms are like ovens during the day and freezers at night. Only they have to cool off from baking all day. And heat up in the morning from freezing all night, on good days.
My classes so far:
Fun
LOTS of reading
Interesting
Different
(in an odd way) relaxing
The teachers here care about the material they are teaching and how well you learn it so much. It’s like having the father of psychology teach my introduction to psychology class. He is always pumped to tell us about some exciting part of psychology. Their enthusiasm keeps me interested during their classes.
The FOOD! Bartol is interesting. The different meals offered are SO varied. It’s really different from many cafeterias. The stir-fry/sauce pan lady is really funny. The food is decent, some nights and it’s good other nights. You will always find something to eat there. And stealing food from Bartol is not that hard.