Home Sweet Home

By Abigail Wolfgang

BALTIMORE, MD– With summer just around the corner, dumpsters are lined up outside the residence halls and signs are displayed across doors.  It is hard to ignore what time of the year it is.  Another semester has come to an end and whether students plan on staying in the Baltimore area or heading back home, everyone is gearing up to move out.

For residents in dormitories with shared apartments the moving out process may be a little more complicated than it is for some freshmen on Hillside with only one roommate.  The more roommates there are living together, the more cleaning there is to accomplish.

Meaghan Woods junior phycology major does not seem too excited about dividing up the cleaning duties between her five other roommates.

“It’s really annoying. It’s difficult to split up the work because people move out on different days,” complains Woods.

To help with the cleaning process RA’s distributed lists from Student Life to the apartments to assign chores for each room. Once the rooms are cleaned and students are checked out, they are free to head home.

For many students, heading home is as simple as packing their car and driving home.  For others, it is not so simple.

Junior communication major Breelyn Starrett has a journey ahead of her.  As a Florida resident, her trip entails much more than packing her car.  Starrett’s dad will leave their home on May 9 and stop in North Carolina on his way up to Loyola.  Then they will spend a night in Maryland together before heading back down south.  They plan on stopping again in North Carolina before finally making it back to Florida.

“I’m making a nice trip out of it since it’s a 13 hour drive.  I’ll be home just in time to be a mother’s day gift,” Starrett said.

For another family, the trip has become routine. With two Loyola graduates and two current students the Quintanos are no strangers to the drive to and from Loyola.  There dad will drive their van down from their Easter Chester, NY home to bring back his junior and sophomore daughters, Eva and Tammy.

“We will pack up Eva’s things as soon as my dad gets here, and then we will pack up mine.  My dad has a 14-seater van so we are lucky that everything will fit together,” said Tammy Quintano.

The one thing that is most notable around campus is the feeling of excitement for summer despite the cleaning and moving out process.