Students learn to rough it in apartments and dorms after living at home during the summer.
Samantha Furtick washed dishes in the sink of her her on-campus apartment in the Courtyard.
After living in her new home for a week, the junior graphic design major is still getting accustomed to living on her own.
"It takes a lot to make dorms feel like home," Furtick said.
Home cooking and fresh laundry were luxuries that many students enjoyed this summer as they lived at home.
“I don’t like doing everything for myself, like laundry and dishes,” Furtick said. “But I like not having to answer to my parents about where I’m going, who I’m going with and when I will be home.”
For some, the adjustment from home to school is a large adjustment, but others are willing to trade comfort for freedom.
"I love the freedom. My parents were never controlling, but as the only child I knew that my parents would worry when I’d come home late from either work or hanging out with friends," Markie Gaddis, senior English education major, said. "Now I can go to a late movie, or stay over at a friend’s house, knowing my mom isn’t at home, loosing sleep as she waits for me to return home."
Furtick and Gaddis have found that freedom also comes with a price such as ant problems, clogged drains and broken garbage disposals.
Gaddis, who lives in University Place at the Vista, also does not enjoy having to pay the literal price of rent and for laundry.
Winthrop students were able to move in to the dorms starting Aug. 17. Off-campus students moved in at varying times. The fall semester for Winthrop University classes began on Aug. 25.
"It takes a lot to make dorms feel like home," Furtick said.
Home cooking and fresh laundry were luxuries that many students enjoyed this summer as they lived at home.
“I don’t like doing everything for myself, like laundry and dishes,” Furtick said. “But I like not having to answer to my parents about where I’m going, who I’m going with and when I will be home.”
For some, the adjustment from home to school is a large adjustment, but others are willing to trade comfort for freedom.
"I love the freedom. My parents were never controlling, but as the only child I knew that my parents would worry when I’d come home late from either work or hanging out with friends," Markie Gaddis, senior English education major, said. "Now I can go to a late movie, or stay over at a friend’s house, knowing my mom isn’t at home, loosing sleep as she waits for me to return home."
Furtick and Gaddis have found that freedom also comes with a price such as ant problems, clogged drains and broken garbage disposals.
Gaddis, who lives in University Place at the Vista, also does not enjoy having to pay the literal price of rent and for laundry.
Winthrop students were able to move in to the dorms starting Aug. 17. Off-campus students moved in at varying times. The fall semester for Winthrop University classes began on Aug. 25.
