{"id":164,"date":"2011-08-19T23:24:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T04:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-08-20T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T15:52:03","slug":"move-in-freshman-experience-vs-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/2011\/08\/move-in-freshman-experience-vs-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Move in: Freshman experience vs. mine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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See the people in yellow? Yeah, they're ALL volunteers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Desks, futons, boxes full of unnecessary junk, you name it, I’ve moved it in over the last week. I moved in last Thursday and that was a pretty easy process. My futon had already been in my room all summer and I didn’t have a whole lot of other stuff to worry about. I kind of just brought things in whenever it was convenient for a few days. It was pretty chill.<\/p>\n

I cannot say the same for my other move-in experiences this week. I spent most of my day Friday, Saturday and Sunday helping friends moving in to the house or apartments. (Not complaining; it was great seeing everyone again.) On top of that, as an “On Iowa! Student Leader,” (something I’ll discuss in a later post), I was required to work two four-hour shifts moving the fresh meat into the dorms. (Of course I say “fresh meat” with the most adoring intentions). I will say though, even though I was getting a bit tired of the whole helping-everyone-else-move-in thing, my shifts with the freshmen went very smoothly. Thanks to thousands (okay, maybe a few hundred) volunteers and a newly designed move-in process, parents who may have spent hours parked outside residence halls in the past were in and out in about 30 minutes. In fact, I just found out that we moved in two students per minute throughout the day. Students were glad and parents had nothing but praise and thanks. I’ve got to say, I’m a little mad this wasn’t available last year.<\/p>\n

-DN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Desks, futons, boxes full of unnecessary junk, you name it, I’ve moved it in over the last week. I moved in last Thursday and that was a pretty easy process. My futon had already been in my room all summer and I didn’t have a whole lot of other stuff to worry about. I kind … Continue reading Move in: Freshman experience vs. mine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}