“You can walk the halls, and there’s people. Now, she says, she can be by herself without being totally alone. Wessels moved into a triple in Clark Hall after a room opened up. “I thought that I was just really, really homesick and then I realized that it’s a really big change moving from your house to an apartment on the third floor.” I just wanted to go home so bad,” she said. “I wasn’t eating, and I felt sick every morning. Residential Life will then connect with the student to gather additional information about their living situation.Īnna Wessels SC ’21, who also lived at CGU, said isolation was the main factor that led her to request a room change. To request a room change, students must complete a form with the reason for their request, Ice wrote in an email to TSL. Branscom doesn’t know if her room on campus is a designated emergency single. There are typically between five and seven designated “emergency singles” – rooms that aren’t designed to be lived in permanently but are available temporarily for extreme circumstances – in a given year at Scripps, according to Director of Campus Life Brenda Ice. Shortly after she left CGU, two of her suitemates also moved to singles on Scripps’ campus for personal reasons. She moved out around the time the first-years living at CGU received bicycles and lockers in the student union. “My back hurt a lot from that,” Branscom said, adding that her backpack usually contained school supplies, running shoes, and a bathing suit in case she decided to go to the pool. Her daily routine at CGU consisted of waking up, brushing her teeth, getting ready, and putting anything she could possibly need for the day in her backpack. “And when you don’t have to think about that stuff, you’re able to focus on what’s actually more important, which is school and your well-being.” “Being, you have to think about daily tasks a lot more,” Branscom said. She sleeps more now that she doesn’t have to take the shuttle all the way back to CGU for a nap, she said, and exercises more because the gym is two minutes away, instead of 20. After several trips to the Student Health Center to figure out what was causing her sickness to linger, her doctor suggested she change her living situation.īranscom now lives in a single room in Clark Hall on Scripps College’s main campus and says her new lifestyle is “healthier and more productive.” A few weeks later, Branscom, who was one of 38 first-years living at the Claremont Graduate University apartments because Scripps over-enrolled, still hadn’t gotten better. During the first week of the semester, Alex Branscom SC ’21 had bronchitis and a sinus infection.
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