Trent Ruble's Blog: The Other Way It Is - Posts Tagged "university"

Thursday was move-in day at the university where I work which means the campus has been transformed once again from quiet to bustling. It's been interesting watching the kids and all their belongings flow into the dorms while remembering last year's move-out day, when so much ended up in the dumpsters.



Most of the kids I saw Thursday had parents assisting with all their stuff, which made me think, even as my own son moved into his apartment at a different college the very same day; some of these same parents will be receiving phone calls from their kids saying they're on the Dean's List, or have been selected Homecoming Queen, etc... Yet others will get calls telling them their child has been suspended, expelled, or even arrested. Last year a kid moved in and was arrested before school even started. His roommate called the police after he decided he wasn't going to put up with the pot smoking all year.

This school year will return some old friends as well as new faces and names to remember. Some of the new freshmen will likely become my friends, as the others have, and, as with their predecessors, I will hope to see them through to a college degree. It will be a long process and, when it's over, they will go about their lives. Some I will not see again. But, they will be replaced with more kids, eager and naive, bringing more stuff to the dorms and the cycle will begin again. Life is a funny thing.