This weekend I moved into a new dorm. It was a whirlwind week of packing, and unpacking, going from the one Residence Assistant Office to another and calling the BU Housing Office. But all said and done I’m absolutely in love with my new room. I’m now living in a brownstone on Baystate Road. My room is on the backside of the house and my window looks onto the Charles River and the Esplanade. Because of my class and work schedule, living on the east side of campus is much more convenient than living in West Campus. Each student is different- the girl that moved out of this room swapped with me so she could live in West Campus to be closer to the gym and her friends that lived over there.
The process I went through to move part way through a semester is called a Pull-In and works like this- If there is a vacancy in a room anywhere on campus then whoever is currently living in that room can “pull-in” someone to fill the vacancy. In my case my friend was the one moving and introduced me to her former roommate. We got along really well and she agreed to pull me into the room. (You can find more information about this and other room change processes at http://www.bu.edu/housing/.)
I had a ton of help from my new housemates to move my things from one end of campus to the other. Of course I picked the coldest day of the semester so far to move, but they were troopers and I’m so grateful for them. To move everything I rented a big yellow moving bin from the Residence Assistant office at my new dorm. They are available all year for moving and especially at the beginning and end of the year for move-ins and move-outs. Then we took it to west campus to load it up and pushed it all the way back up Commonwealth Ave to Baystate. I’m sure we looked like a traveling circus act. After that all I had to do was unpack and decorate my new room. I can’t wait to finish out the semester on Baystate. It already feels like home.