Photo courtesy of Graydon Wood
movin’ out SPRING 2020 / KELLI RODRIGUES
Sunday 7:30 A.M. Enter: me, running on four hours of sleep, tears already streaming down my face as I raced down the stairs to let my dad into Walsh. After four days of hugs, tears, and drowning my sorrows, the time had finally come to move out and confront the reality that awaited me upon my return home. The number of move out slips hastily posted on the door of every suite had gradually declined as the days went on, but many students had made the same decision as me: to wait until the last possible second to move out. This was easy if you are lucky enough to live relatively close to BC, or could afford potentially more expensive transportation. For other students, though, leaving early was a difficult but necessary decision. Some were worried about the spread of coronavirus, long before the majority of campus, and wanted to get home as soon as possible. For others, it came down to finances.
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“I left Friday because transportation was cheaper,” said Lazaro Alvelaez, CSOM ‘22. Buying a flight to Florida, as Lazaro would have had to do, with such short notice was costly, especially coming right off of Spring Break. Arranging transportation was only one challenge associated with moving out. Storage was also an issue. Typically, students have weeks to prepare to pack up a year of their lives. They know when their last final is and have time to arrange things like storage facilities. With Easter break only a few weeks before finals, some also start taking some unneeded items, like winter clothing, home then. This time around, those from long distances had to, on top of everything else, figure out what to do with all of their stuff. Luckily, these students were not left behind. Students who live locally and had space offered up their basements to those who needed it. People that could fit an extra bag or two in their cars shoved their friends’ items in. Friends came together to split the cost of a storage unit.
