U students are moving back into Heritage Commons after being away from the new complex since December.
The Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games on March 16 will officially mark the end the U’s Olympic experience.
As students begin the transition back to Heritage Center from the older Van Cott, Ballif and Austin Halls, U residential life is working to keep up.
Curtis Grow, Office of Residential Living associate director, is happy with the way things have gone so far.
“From our perspective, [the move is] going well?you always hope there aren’t any, but you can always expect, glitches along the way,” he said.
Chapel Glen and Gateway Heights both reopened on Friday to accommodate students moving back to Heritage Commons, as Sage Point remains closed to house Paralympians.
With nearly 700 students scheduled to move back into Heritage Commons last weekend and another 250 Monday and today, students, movers and administrators have all cooperated to make the move easy for everyone.
“We appreciated the flexibility of the students, they were really troopers,” Grow said.
With only 200 students living in the old dorms, the Ballif Hall computer lab and convenience store have both been shut down.
“The computer lab and dining services at Heritage Center are both in full swing,” Grow said. The computer lab opened at 1 p.m. on Saturday while the dining hall opened its doors for brunch on Sunday.
Political science senior Marian Anderson is a residence hall adviser in Chapel Glen.
“It’s been kind of an ordeal [moving back], but the moving company did a really good job,” she said.
Anderson, who lived in Chapel Glen before the move, was relocated to Ballif Hall for the Olympics.
“I’m ecstatic to be back in Chapel Glen, and everyone seems really happy to be back,” she said.
With hundreds of students moving, individual glitches were inevitable, according to Grow.
“All things considered, things went very well. We’re pleased that it went so smoothly, and we feel bad that a particular individual had problems,” he said.
Anderson thinks the moving company did a great job over the weekend moving students back into the newer facilities.
“I think they learned a lot about how to move all those people when we moved down to the old dorms and back up here again,” she said.
For Paul Michael, the experience of moving back into Heritage Commons was hands on.
Michael, a marketing employee at the U, took a job helping students move back into their new rooms.
“Things went especially smoothly because the same people who moved us down moved us back up,” Michael said.
Though the older residence halls have a more intimate and personal feel to them, Michael shares Anderson’s excitement in returning to Chapel Glen.
“Van Cott was a very social atmosphere, but there’s a really good sense of community up here,” he said.
As for the rooms, they are in very good shape, according to Michael.
“The rooms are in fine shape. The Office of Residence Life was very thorough in their plans, and there were no big surprises or conspiracies,” he said.