Move-in day memories.

Aug 6, 2024, 9:19 AM

Good friends are moving their oldest in down at Auburn today, so I texted them some encouragement as it's probably a one heck of a roller coaster day for parents (our one and only still has a couple of years in HS to go).

It got me thankin' about my move-in day way back when.

Times were sure different: My parents didn't come with me, but they did roll through campus on their way to the family lake house. Because, priorities.

They found my truck and slid a fiver under my windshield wiper with a note: "Go get a burger with your new buddies."

I rolled on campus with a laundry basket filled with folded clothes, a box of detergent for the semester (one load per week on Sundays), one of those little mini microwaves, a VHS-combo TV set, and a backpack.

No fanfare. No dern social media splash; one day I was a kid living at home, the next I was a kid living in a dorm.

Them were the days.

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My room was like a closet with closets and a bunk bed and two desks and it smelled like skunk all semester because someone had stink bombed the place during the summer school session.

My roomie was from Brownsville and would stretch the phone chord as far down the hall as he could get from our room and talk to his Momma in Spanish just about every night.

I got so drunk at a sorority dance that I used my trash can for a receptacle because the bathrooms were 50 yards away.

I knocked that putrefaction over in the night, and awoke the next morning to my Dad at the door wanting to take me to breakfast, and my room smelling like distilled bile.

The one time in my college career my old man shows up to do something thoughtful, and me too drunk to take him up on the offer.

We laughed about it later in life, but it was a bit awkward at the time.

These kids now it seems have dorm rooms like resort hotel suites. No wonder we can't afford college anymore.

Our one and only child wants to go to Clemson and I can only hope the Lord provides a way.

Move-in day memories.

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That must have been in the Annex or A section. In the F-4 Hall, we were lucky

Man that pic strikes a chord.

My parents didn't come with me either...

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Clearly engineering students.

Re: Move-in day memories.

Sweating my @$$ off***

My parents didn't come with me either. I had only enough clothes to fill

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Re: Move-in day memories.

I did Clemson grad school as a working adult.

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