The reality of having a hotel dorm room
Matt Simon
Issue date: 9/20/06 Section: Features
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About a month before she was due to report to campus, Kameryn started getting nervous. She had not yet received her room assignment. What should she bring? What was her roommate going to be like? How was she supposed to get ready for a new college?
She called the Office of Community Living to find out why she had not yet received any information about where she would be living. The response startled her; she was told that she would be spending the year in a hotel.
Kameryn remembers her initial thought after she was told that: "Cool!"
Not everything is as she anticipated, though. Kameryn transferred here from George Mason University, which is about as different from Goucher as it gets. While Goucher is looking to grow up to about 1,500 students, over 17,000 students attend George Mason. They are known for diversity; Goucher is known for its "bubble."
And that bubble is one of the first things that Kameryn noticed. In some ways she likes the bubble - "There is a really strong sense of community here" - but in other ways she dislikes it - "Sometimes it's really hard to be a part of the campus."
During the week, Kameryn leaves her hotel room in the morning and doesn't return there until late at night. She keeps herself busy here, spending the little extra time she has in between her 8 classes doing work in the library or hanging out with her friends.
"I miss not being able to just go hang out in my room for an hour in between classes. Sometimes I just want to take a nap in the middle of the day, but going all the way back over to the Sheraton really isn't an option," she says.
She eats all three meals on campus, including the lunch that we shared in Heubeck recently.
As she dug into her spinach and roasted red pepper turkey loaf, she talked about the difficulties that go with having to be on campus for every meal.
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