Sometimes you just have to love university bureaucracies...
I applied to the University of Delaware as a transfer student back in May. I submitted my deposit in late June, about two weeks after I received my acceptance letter. Later on, I was told that I didn't "need" to go to the university's orientation programs, because there would be fall programs available for transfer students.
I had applied for university housing when I submitted my deposit, but supposedly all (late) housing assignments were supposed to be given out by August 15. Since I hadn't received a residence, I figured I was living at home for the first semester, and commuting 20 minutes to classes each day.
I didn't receive my dorm assignment until yesterday at 4:00 PM.
Move-in for new and transfer students is tomorrow.
Excuse me, but I have a shitload of things to pack now... (Fortunately my home is only 20 minutes away, so I won't have trouble getting anything that I forget, at least.)
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
The is the way my wife's family always does it. Get a vehicle or two in the driveway, load them up, unload, done. No pre-packing, nothing, load and go.
I hope you move goes well. Being only 20 minutes away you could just take a few things and move in, then get the bigger stuff at your pleasure.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Wow. You live close.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
My college starts in 25 days. I do not have a dorm room yet. Or classes.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Well Ritten, that might work, but the problem is that I've got more little things. It's not appliances or big boxes... but books, school/writing supplies, my Trek Reference books (naturally!) and other materials. If I just tossed them into the back of my father's Subaru Outback, half of them wouldn't survive the trip in one piece, and I'd never get things organized once I got to my room.
(Plus, it'd make getting all my stuff up to my sixth-floor room a whole lot more difficult.)
Snay: Yeah, I'd been hoping to go someplace a little further away, but circumstances dictated otherwise.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
That may be what happened to my books also... they are nowhere to be found in this house.....
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
Did my move into my on-campus apartment in one day. Tossed all my stuff into a couple of those large plastic bin thingees and drove the 40 minutes to school. Got there and figured I needed another little bookshelf and couple of other little things...mom took me to Target to get that junk.
Other little things came later as I visted home and brought stuff back almost everytime.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
That was my approach. Of course, since my universit yhouse and my parents house are 4 hours drive apart, it took me 5 months to get everything moved in. Tsk.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Well, believe it or not I actually got everything taken care of yesterday! I wouldn't have thought it possible, especially considering that my room was a huge mess anyway. But I got things organized, packed, cleaned the remaining surfaces so that my parents wouldn't have to look at a huge dust collection for the next four months until Christmas, loaded up the car...
And now I'm actually (mostly) moved in! I don't have all the niceties, and things certainly aren't all set up, but everything's in the apartment (dorm, really), and I'm in the process of getting things unpacked.
Why am I screwing around on Flare, then? I'm testing the network connection. Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
*sniff* I miss those moving into the apartment and on my own thing.
I have to wait a year to do it again.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I sent my local housing department an(other) e-mail today. Witness:
quote: Though I am sure it is all but impossible, I'm a returning student who is still interesting in living on campus if at all possible. But I am unsure of what steps (if any) to take. I would appreciate any assistance/advice available. (Aside from "take care of these things earlier," which is entirely relavent, but also a fact with which I am closely acquainted as of late.)
I think I am doomed.
Posted by Tora Buttercup (Member # 53) on :
Sol: Um, yeah, why DIDN'T you take care of these things earlier?
Me, I seem to be moving in fewer and fewer things in every year. Freshman year I moved in a shitload of books with me. Bad idea since half of them I've already read and the other half I didn't get around to reading. This year it's just the essentials, since I'm moving out at the end of this semester and then lugging my stuff halfway around the world.
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
I'm getting part of my bedroon packed up now, so my mom can store it for me until I figure out where I'm going next year. The main purpose of doing it now, though, is to clear clutter. Gah. Its amazing how 23 years of....stuff...can cram a small bedroom.
Work keeps thinking I'm moving away and not telling them. *L* I grab some boxes every night I work.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
MinutaeMan: No, I mean you're close to ME.
Not that you're close to home.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Nobody's close to me! Except for the missing poster Elim Garak...
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Snay: MinutaeMan: No, I mean you're close to ME.
Oh... yeah, that's true. I usually don't travel towards Baltimore -- all of my family lives further north -- so I generally don't think of it as "close," even though it's only an hour and a quarter away. (All of my trips in that direction involved multiple-hour treks out towards Virginia...)
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
I seem to remember living kinda close to someone from here....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Less than two weeks ago, you were asking me for directions around downtown, and now you only "seem to remember living kinda close to someone"? *shakes head* Some people...
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