Residential Life with Summer Scholars

As I began to pack all of my things the night before I was constantly worrying about over-packing. I got all of my favorite shirts and had everything organized and I wanted to bring my whole room. I looked around and decided to stop packing things because I did not want to be the only kid bringing a load of things and look like a total dork! Much to my suprise I arrive there, and man could I have packed so much more! I walk in and enthusiastically welcomed by everybody I recieved my room key. Walk on in to my room and meet all of my roomates with no problem. As I walk by I just have to peek into their rooms to see how much they packed, and WOOOH! An iPod docking station? A laptop?! And I was worried about something as silly as overpacking? Ha there was no reason to worry about anything, I swiftly met everyone that very first day and we all seemed to click. In just the short time we've known eachother we bonded already and no one would have cared about a silly thing like over packing. As soon as we settled in it was stress free.
The first night we settled all the rules right off the bat and it was pretty funny seeing people we just met come up with curfews and expectations. The first two nights we set our curfew for 2:00 in the morning so we all met and introduced eachother that night. It started and finished as a great experience. The first night after coming back from Ashland, NE many of us played basketball and walked around then messed around in the game room.
Throughout the whole week of staying there we were always busy, either playing sand volleyball or watching a movie there always was something to do. I was so amazed that we got unlimited breakfast, lunch, and dinner all for free! And most importantly they had Chocolate Milk on tap, which was like Heavan for me. I felt like I really got to know all of the other summer scholars pretty well, I'm sure we will still talk in the future as well.
I am so glad I got the opportunity to do this and was accepted. It was a new experience in my life and without a doubt worth it. The people and activities were great. I loved the dorms and everything about the experience. I would recommend to anyone open for a great life experience!