Ben’s Blog

Yesterday the GVSU webteam, and Holly, helped move returning and incoming students into their dorms.  As we’re almost all alumni of GVSU we opted to help as alumni rather than employees as the perks are much better.  It was a long morning but a lot of fun - always nice to meet the students and their parents.

Maybe it is my mischevious look, but two parent’s made sure to tell me to not look through their daughter’s boxes and one parent followed me to their kid’s room to make sure I delivered the items to the room promised.  I will work on looking more trusting next year.

We also got a look at the newest dorms on Grand Valley’s campus and they are nothing short of spectacular.  The honor’s dorms have air conditioning, individual bedrooms with a huge living area and a dishwasher.  Compare that to my experience: sharing a walk-in closet sized room with a friend who’s bunk was 3 ft above my head, and we washed out shared hot-plate in the drinking fountain.  We also had to walk up hill both ways when going to class.  Good thing we only stayed there half the year!