Corr 219 :)

After much waiting and anticipation, we finally got our residence information. I got in Corr Hall, which was my first choice dorm, so I am extremely excited! I am in a triple, so I have two roommates. I never really thought I would’ve wanted a triple, but now that I got assigned it, I am actually pretty happy about it. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know both my roommates in the last week. One of my roommates is Caitlin. She is from Connecticut, so hopefully she will be able to help me out when the winter months come along. We bonded instantly over our love of Harry Potter, The Office, and Dane Cook. My other roommate, Lauren, is from Florida. I was happy to have someone else from far away. We will be able to commiserate when we get homesick, or just extremely cold. I am really excited to get to school and get to know my roommates a lot better. But from what I can tell, we are all going to get along great!!

Since I know now where I will be living, my mom took me shopping yesterday for dorm stuff. We went to Bed, Bath, & Beyond. It’s really convenient because I can look around a store here in California and pick out all I need, and then when I get to Stonehill, I can go pick it all up at a store there. It makes it a lot easier so that we don’t have to mail everything. I was really excited to go shopping because I got to use one of the wedding registry scanner guns to order my stuff. I have always thought those looked like so much fun! It was, however, somewhat of a disappointment. The gun’s battery kept dying so we kept having to start over, but I didn’t let that ruin the fun of picking out all new stuff. Even getting something as boring as a trash bin was exciting, because I knew when I used that trash bin it was going to be in my new home at Stonehill. I got most of my stuff from Bed, Bath, & Beyond, but I didn’t really find any bedding I liked, so we went to Target for that. I found a really cute blanket and lots of cute pillows that we will mail to school. I can’t wait to use it all. And it was nice to get to bring some stuff home from the shopping trip.

Move-in day is getting closer and closer. I can’t believe its only 3 weeks until I leave! It’s pretty scary, but at the same time really exciting. I am trying to squeeze in everything I can with my hometown friends before I leave. I have lots of “end-of-summer” parties coming up, and multiple trips to the beach and Disneyland in the works. These last weeks of summer are going to be really fun, but what I’m really looking forward to is moving into Stonehill!!!