Phase 4 came earlier than expected, with students moving out sooner than anticipated. I for one am glad about it, considering the way this semester went.
When I envisioned myself going to college, I didn’t expect to be held up in my room for weeks on end. But that is what most freshmen faced this year.
My father had taken me to UW a lot for football games and I believe once for his graduating class reunion. So, campus was already fairly familiar to me before I moved in.
With all these visits I slowly gathered what college life, social life specifically, looked like. Before last spring, that is what it was looking like my class was coming into.
But as we all know, that is not how it played out for this semester. Considering this, it would have been better for freshmen to just stay online for the year instead of dealing with the obtuse and roundabout way the university has been putting us through it.
In this semester most of us were stuck in our dorm rooms, most feeling burned out quite quickly and slowly being drowned in overdue assignments and papers. If these students were at home in a less constricting environment, most likely they wouldn’t have faced such problems.
Another thing to consider, which also coincides with the first point, is the lack of activity most of us freshmen had. During this semester, Half Acre was barely open and had a bit of a process to get in, which most likely discouraged many from going in the first place.
Even then, the limited space provided made it difficult to get an appointment at Half Acre during reasonable times during the day. So it was hard for some who were ridden with schedules that gave them only a few key hours here and there to even attempt going to Half Acre.
Although this wasn’t what everyone experienced in their dorms. It’s what I had heard from several of my floor mates and classmates about their current predicament they found themselves in this semester, as well as my own personal experience as well.
